The album doesn’t see the rapper experimenting with his skull-rattling sound very much.
The latest track from Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw (a.k.a. bEEdEEgEE) features CSS’s Lovefoxxx on vocals.
Avril Lavigne is ultimately a handful of watered-down genre tropes trotted out seemingly because they’re on trend.
Free Your Mind reveals some wear and tear on Cut Copy’s synth-pop formula.
Artpop’s most naked, straightforward pop moments that are the album’s most redemptive.
Matangi again establishes M.I.A. as one of the most fascinating figures in modern music, but the personal voice underlying her material remains aggravatingly half-baked.
The chief intention of Celine Dion’s Loved Me Back to Life is to pass for contemporary.
Britney Spears’s “Perfume” is a midtempo ballad that likens perfume to urine.
Eminem’s shock value has softened by dint of familiarity, but The Marshall Mathers LP 2 still features tantalizing moments of vintage performance.
Lady Gaga has composed a convincing anthem of remorse.
The album might just be the sort of darkly painted neurosis needed to combat popular music’s deluge of silly and crude self-affirmations.
“Faster Than the Devil,” featuring Marissa Nadler, mines the same influences as Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan.
It wouldn’t be giving too much away to say that things don’t end well for the former boy bander.
“The Monster” finds Eminem confronting fame, the media, and the titular demon inside.
Reflektor coheres into a sustained meditation on the fragility of human connection.
Another week, another Lady Gaga pseudo-controversy.
Active Child’s Rapor EP is the artist’s most confident release to date.
It’s Kelly Clarkson’s original songs that elevate Wrapped in Red above just another holiday-industrial-complex cash-in.
Lousy with Sylvianbriar is perhaps Of Montreal’s most lifeless album to date.
Cut Copy has shared a new cut from their forthcoming fourth album, Free Your Mind.
The lesson of Love to Love You Donna isn’t so much “don’t mess with perfection,” but rather “don’t bother trying to gild the lily of genius.”