The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
The album attempts to bridge a number of gaps in a way that can feel bland and devoid of context.
The musician’s second album in three months exists at a blurry intersection of inscrutability and openness.
The catchy pop-punk song channels the scrappy energy and brash outspokenness that helped make Pink a star.
The album engages with rock’s history while simultaneously taking it in imaginative new directions.
The indie-pop group’s sophomore effort doubles down on their copy-and-paste approach, but this time with mixed results.
In an attempt to move forward, the band has repackaged the stylistic traits that made them special in the first place.
If the best albums of 2022 so far are any indication, it seems clear that pop music can’t just go back to what it was before.
The scope of the 80-minute, 23-track album allows the rapper-singer to explore the full breadth of his romantic and sexual proclivities.
The album is part of a now decades-long roll-out attesting to the rapper’s bravado—and we’re not complaining.
The album is spiked with humor and pathos, and Spektor holds the two in balance as skillfully as she ever has.
The first single from Beyoncé’s Renaissance marks, if not a cultural reset, at least a musical shift for the singer.
Though the album is more cohesive than Soccer Mommy’s previous albums, its lyrical themes and melodies aren’t nearly as indelible.
Porcupine Tree’s 11th studio album implies a summary of a body of work running back 35 years.
The album captures the visceral and tender dimensions of dance, pushing the boundaries of the musician’s artistry.
Bartees Strange attempts to carve out a sonic palette of his own on much of his second studio album.
The Swedish singer-songwriter’s fifth album is her sparest and most unadorned effort to date.
The album sees Styles growing comfortable enough within the pop idiom that he inhabits to push against it—but only ever so slightly.
The album is a gripping treatise on the relationship between Lamar’s inner turmoil and the cultural landscape.
The U.K.-based rapper-singer’s debut album homes in on his Nigerian roots, combining American R&B with African rhythms.
Economical hooks and ironic distance have been supplanted by a return to grandiose multi-part suites and painful sincerity.