The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
The album stirringly demonstrates that the emotional resonance of Shaw’s music remains steadfast and unwavering.
Exister is the Soft Moon’s most expansive and vulnerable album to date.
The rapper’s bark is far worse than his bite, resulting in a lot of bluster but little follow-through.
The band’s third album is an exhilarating power-pop tour de force, replete with bristling guitar riffs and infectious harmonies.
The artist’s least celebratory album to date, Spirituals is nonetheless ornate and often frenetic.
The album engages in a dialogue with the past, whether it’s Sim’s youth or the last half century of music and cinema.
The album lacks an organized artistic vision, or at least a sense of purpose beyond engaging in purely attention-grabbing theatrics.
Sarah Bonito’s debut EP uses the titular mythological figure as a jumping-off point for a study of hubris.
The Aussie singer-songwriter proves that she’s an unflinchingly personal lyricist who can also slam some rocking hooks together.
On her sixth album, the singer-songwriter celebrates the respite and redemption of forging a radically independent path.
The album sees the Aussie singer-songwriter refining the at times jagged indie rock of her promising debut.
When he’s run out of ideas, the Game predictably resorts to antagonizing real or imagined foes.
A potent sense of artistic and existential dissatisfaction permeates the synth-pop band’s eighth album.
The album examines the rewards and pains of an on-again, off-again relationship.
On her sophomore effort, the rapper goes completely mask-off, directing her anger at other rappers and former friends.
In keeping with its title, the prolific Louisiana rapper’s fourth album plays like the end of an era.
The Scottish DJ’s latest album has a few superficial charms going for it—and not much else.
From MTV to Madame X, the queen of pop’s ode to voguing continues to endure three decades later.
The album revels in the sounds of ’50s and ’60s pop but lacks the hooks that made that era so indelible.
On her seventh album, the singer displaces us from both history and the present and situates us in her unique ecosystem.