The album turns the rapper’s formal minimalism into a source of excitement.
Houston’s best songs are a testament to not just her gift for interpretation, but her ability to out-sing just about anyone.
One hundred percent of the band’s earnings from their new song will be donated to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
After nearly five years with no new solo material, Kesha has dropped two new tracks in the span of one week.
This is an album concerned with legacy—about what we leave behind, about how we’re remembered.
The singer releases two more songs from her upcoming album Lust for Life.
The Haim sisters convey heartsick sentiments in only the broadest and vaguest of terms.
Bright Light Bright Light is a charismatic, magnetic performer, often funny but refreshingly sincere.
The new single “Praying” is the first taste of Kesha’s long-awaited third album.
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield runs out of new things to say well before Out in the Storm ends.
Atkins’s lyrics eschew metaphor for a more confessional mode, and her arrangements are punchy and direct.
By failing to transcend binary pop tropes, Harris undermines what could’ve been a creative reinvention.
TLC sticks to the group’s late-1990s aesthetic and acts as though nothing has shifted in the world of contemporary pop.
The album offers both dark clouds and silver linings through the band’s juxtaposition of anxiety and hope.
Sheer Mag has created an album on which even their breeziest hooks drip with tension and rage.
At its best, Together at Last almost makes one wish for a redo of previous albums.
The music itself provides the surface glitz, unspooling in sumptuous tapestries.
Portugal. The Man aims squarely at the 21st-century mainstream with their eighth album, Woodstock.
It’s cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be.
Crack-Up takes contrasting musical ideas and textures and makes them functional, if not transcendent.
So You Wanna Be an Outlaw engages Steve Earle’s past without ever sounding stuck in a rut.