The album sees the singer-songwriter moving in a different direction.
On Cry Cry Cry, Wolf Parade captures how complacency allows simmering tensions to metastasize.
Throughout his latest album, Josh Ritter is mindful of folk forms but never beholden to them.
Wonderful Wonderful’s best tracks happen to be the ones that feel the most tossed off by the Killers.
The songs on Grace span eras and musical genres but are all connected by their sense of place.
The expansive Hiss Spun marks the most cohesive iteration of Wolfe’s sound to date.
If possible, the singer seems even more vulnerable than ever on “The Gate.”
Fergie struggles to balance the new with the old throughout the album.
It’s a utilitarian product, offering up 12 newly recorded songs that will allow the band to get back on the road.
It effortlessly recalls the band’s much-too-short original run while also settling into a lived-in, comfortable groove.
Okovi reprises Zola Jesus’s familiar formula of pained, soaring vocals set to ghostly atmospherics.
On the album, the specter of Bobby Jameson offers a useful framework for Ariel Pink’s signature sound.
The song is further evidence that Swift is taking a harder, more in-your-face, hip-hip-oriented approach for her sixth album.
Like Scarlet’s Walk, the album is a concept album that surveys America post-catastrophe.
The National continues to display highly polished craftsmanship of simmering balladry on Sleep Well Beast.
Despite Haiku from Zero’s sunny musicality, there’s often a grim, apocalyptic subtext to the album’s songs.
Hercules and Love Affair’s Omnion is polished, precise, and familiar-sounding, but it’s also indelibly soulful.
Taylor Swift’s new video is an expression of melodramatic outrage tinged with the macabre.
If LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream is intended as a nostalgic cash-grab, it’s a piss poor one.
Rather than fighting her reputation as a mean girl, Taylor Swift embraces it on “Look What You Made Me Do.”
Katy plays “Kobe” Perry, the team captain of the Tigers, who go head-to-head with the Sheep, led by Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson.