We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
Nelly Furtado’s sixth album, The Ride, feels a lot like the debut of a new rising star.
Mental Illness is one of Mann’s most ravishing and affecting hymns to solitude.
Brood X finds Boss Hog not singing its way out of the blues, but delving more deeply into them.
Salutations is a sprawling album that unfortunately exchanges raw urgency for fussy polish.
With We All Want the Same Things, Craig Finn sounds as comfortable as ever in his own skin.
Hot Thoughts is at its most appealing when Spoon sticks to what they know how to do best.
Metamorphosis is a major theme on Silver Eye, but Goldfrapp doesn’t seem to have done much of it themselves.
Throughout Heartworms, James Mercer ruminates on aging by contrasting his present with his past.
After teasing her comeback last week, Lorde has unveiled “Green Light,” the first single from her long-awaited sophomore effort, Melodrama.
With Detroit House Guests, Adult remains fixated on finding inventive ways to fascinate and unnerve their listeners.
The album evocatively captures the essence of the streets of New York’s increasingly gentrified outer boroughs.
Semper Femina is distinctly modern in its mixture of stringent self-analysis and inquisitive open-mindedness.
A triumph of form, The Order of Time is a completely idiosyncratic take on American roots music.
Perry’s new music video offers up its subversive message with a spoonful of sugar.
Like the song itself, the single’s dreamy music video benefits from repeat visits.
Rhiannon Giddens’s Freedom Highway, is awash with history, with stories carried down through bloodlines.
Prisoner is an enveloping, painfully raw breakup album and an intense portrait of one guy’s troubled headspace.
The Tourist is a welcome shift from the amorphous electronica of the band’s last effort.
The majesty of Bing & Ruth’s No Home of the Mind may lie in how often you feel like the only one listening.
Perry’s new single feels like the off-season summer smash we need right now.