The album doesn’t see the rapper experimenting with his skull-rattling sound very much.
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.
Here and Nowhere Else is defined by the sound of raw energy giving way to coherence and control.
Music for Robots is an experiment that rarely rises from the lab long enough to breathe the open air.
It’s Album Time slowly builds an argument that there’s genuine talent behind the sheen of novelty, only to have Terje zigzag in the other direction.
For all its heady ideas and pretty moments, The Future’s Void is a mishmash of half-completed thoughts that fails to fully connect.
The DJ/producer is credited with helping to popularize Chicago house in the wake of disco’s greatly exaggerated demise.
The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett is a roughshod batch of breakup songs too fragile to support the conceptual weight of its title.
For all its faults, Singles represents a band stepping into its prime.
Out Among the Stars is a reminder of how easy Johnny Cash made it all look even when he was slumping.
Mess may be Liars’ darkest album, which is saying a lot for a band so well versed in cultic, gloomy theatrics.
“G.U.Y.” returns Gaga to her previous visual excesses.
The band’s offbeat lyrical imagery and crunchy guitar-drum combinations work to enhance the album’s messy, unpretentious charm.
One of the biggest disappointments about Minogue’s new album is the absence of last year’s buzz single, “Skirt.”
The Take Off and Landing of Everything gives us mostly familiar surroundings, but it makes for fine company.
Kiss Me Once continues an impressive streak of ruthlessly addictive dance music that dates at least as far back as 2001.
The majority of Wye Oak’s set did focus on songs their upcoming album Shriek.
There isn’t a single moment on Supermodel that could be acutely identified to represent Foster the People’s unique “personality.”