The track is a bustling pop-rock song bolstered by a clangy guitar riff and searing synth line.
The Black Keys’ Turn Blue achieves a fully mature, cosmopolitan polish.
If Tori Amos’s Unrepentant Geraldines is indeed visual art, it’s more of a polite Norman Rockwell than a vomit-stained Sherman.
There comes a time in most people’s lives when they realize their parents did the best they could.
Posthumous albums are usually artifacts mostly for loyal fans, but Michael Jackson wasn’t your usual pop star.
With the release of their fourth album, Nabuma Rubberband, Little Dragon has completed a slow but striking transformation.
Agalloch’s fifth album, The Serpent & the Sphere, is an entrancing, inter-dimensional construction zone.
The video takes a page from Chris Isaak’s iconic, oft-emulated “Wicked Game.”
Lily Allen’s third album, Sheezus, is a hot mess of thorny contradictions.
Brian Eno and Karl Hyde’s Someday World is the EDM equivalent of top-shelf dad rock.
Nikki Nack is the result of warring emotions and priorities, with Tune-Yards railing against the world while simultaneously celebrating its fluorescent beauty.
I Never Learn finds Li completely turning her back on the glossy pop she was edging toward on previous albums.
Shine One feels longer than it is, which is a desirable quality for what is basically glorified background music.
The book is more a corroboration for the initiated than inquest for the infidels.
Albarn decisively enters his old-man phase, delivering a depressive jeremiad on the sorry state of our tech-obsessed culture.
It’s telling that when Lavigne stops to take a Polaroid of her posse of expressionless Japanese slave-dancers.
The New Classic showcases an artist who’s still in the process of figuring out who she wants to be.
This is some of Kelis’s subtlest, most organic-sounding work. If only there was more of her in it.
“Monument” was inspired by a sculpture by Brazilian-American artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite.
Lizzie Grant needs a vacation.
Hendra sounds like an adult contemporary/folk crossover album that could have been released in 1976.