We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
Friends so incessantly refers to its seasons-change premise that its emotional impact is blunted by album’s end.
BROOKZILL’S cultural synthesis couldn’t be accomplished if the instrumentation wasn’t so consummately realized.
Three serves as a progression for a duo that takes vivid inner turmoil and projects it outward.
Enjoying the Pixies’s sixth album, Head Carrier, is mostly a matter of managing expectations.
The hooks on WALLS are surprisingly hard to come by for an album this ostensibly geared toward radio.
22, A Million synthesizes archaic and future styles to address and remedy the ailments of the present.
Blood flows freely on Blood Bitch, a carefully composed collage album with a pronounced focus on body horror.
Shape Shift with Me reexamines the dynamics of power, place, and belonging.
By grounding Sonderlust in the duality of love’s joy and pain, Kishi Bashi achieves transcendence.
American Band is concise, laser-focused, and brutally efficient, lyrically and musically.
Listen to two exclusive songs from the Silicon Cowboys soundtrack.
Primal Scream’s Screamadelica is a reckoning of past and future injected with real-life rock debauchery.
Skeleton Tree is at once Cave’s darkest, most emotionally devastating work to date, and his most painfully vulnerable.
The album too often feels half-baked, with Dupieux stirring up interesting ideas only to tire of them too quickly.
As the album unfolds, the band’s experimental impulses show themselves, but in a pithier fashion.
Away therefore stands as the dark flipside to the warm but complicated nostalgia of 2013’s The Silver Gymnasium.
The lyrics to Lady Gaga’s “Perfect Illusion” suggest the song is more personal than just your boilerplate breakup anthem.
AIM is less emphatic and coherent than many of M.I.A.’s previous musical provocations.
Prima Donna is Vince Staples becoming acutely aware of his role as a black artist in America.
Mykki Blanco’s full-length debut album, Mykki, explores an inner life lived on both sides of an ironic wink.