The Leeds junglist tells a story in the wrong order, in the right way.
Oczy Mlody is a masterstroke of rhythm and tone that neither trips head-on into bliss nor spins into dismay.
This is music that’s never the same but sounds like it is, obsessed with the fact that it isn’t.
A list of the most ambitious, genre-defying music by pop’s reluctant gay icon.
This may represent Jagger’s most technically proficient and grittily emotive set of vocals this side of Exile on Main St.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The specter of death and sting of betrayal have cast a somber mood onto many of the best albums of 2016.
The album, Donald Glover’s third release as Childish Gambino, finds the musician confusing his idols for muses.
The best singles of the year were attuned to a worldwide drift toward maintaining one’s own financial and psychological bottom line.
The album remodels an artistically marginal, genuinely interesting figure into a toothless celebrity version thereof.
The video employs sexuality—and homosexuality—purely for the purpose of the male gaze.
Bruno Mars’s album is a tidy, if derivative, antidote to today’s overthought, overwrought pop.
The album finds the Parisian duo capturing the rapture and agony that can accompany unrequited love.
Welcome to Sideways is a contoured album that hits a sweet spot between kinetic and laidback.
Alicia Keys seems at once more awake and relaxed than ever on her first album in four years.
Sleigh Bells charts a clear creative path forward on this album, one saturated in pop affect.
Eternally Even plants Jim James dead-center in the rubble of modern sociopolitical rot.
The album offers a peek inside the psyche of a smart, burgeoning young star.
The album is a wry reckoning of a lifetime’s worth of damaged relationships, upheld vows, and broken promises.
While she may have eschewed the outlandish costumes, Gaga has replaced them with a different kind of pretense.
The Deaner Album possesses the swagger of an artist in full command of his craft.