We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
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.
The album’s pseudo-danceable moments add welcome wrinkles to a formula that’s otherwise begun to feel leaden.
The album plays to its principals’ strengths without sounding like an exercise in nostalgia.
The music video finds the artist paying homage to none other than Elvis Presley.