The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
Adele’s 30 digs deeper into the soul, jazz, and pop styles that have defined the singer’s music.
Thirty years later, U2’s Achtung Baby is still intact as the band’s best and most fully realized album.
With Red (Taylor’s Version), Swift displays a surprising willingness to kill, or at least revise, her darlings.
Our list of the greatest music videos showcases the power, poignancy, and proficiency of the medium.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Raise the Roof expands the notions of collaboration and social exchange through music.
Courtney Barnett’s Things Take Time, Take Time captures something true and profound about how we relate to the world and each other.
As the album turns 30, we take a look back at My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.
Snail Mail’s sophomore effort, Valentine, captures the blurry nature of an inquiry still in progress.
With Ocean to Ocean, it seems as if Tori Amos has all but given up on pushing the limits of her instrument.
“Far In” highlights Helado Negro’s knack for constructing minimally psychedelic but seductively melodic soundscapes.
The War on Drugs’s I Don’t Live Here Anymore is a skillful balancing act of pop-rock anthems and experimental soundscapes.
Blue Banisters further fleshes out Lana Del Rey’s increasingly colorful personal world.
Parquet Courts’s Sympathy for Life proves the band is still capable of writing songs that shine in the same no-frills style as their idols.
Kelly Clarkson’s When Christmas Comes Around… juxtaposes the yuletide blues with jubilant holiday standards.
Adele’s “Easy on Me” is a melancholic piano ballad in the mold of 2010’s “Someone Like You” and 2015’s “Hello.”
The album’s simple, one-word song titles and ramshackle arrangements suggest a blunted capacity for more elaborate creativity.
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From Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger” to Billie Eilish’s “No Time to Die,” we’ve ranked all 24 Bond themes from best to worst.
The World Is a Beautiful Place’s Illusory Walls feels like the awakening that the band has been building toward all along.
All Day Gentle Hold is Porches’s punchiest and most concise album to date.