The album sees the singer-songwriter moving in a different direction.
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.”
Lady Gaga lashes out at her critics on “Do What U Want,” a newly released teaser single from her upcoming album Artpop.
While Prominence is a quiet, sentimental album, there’s also a warm, open quality to the arrangements.
TLC’s new greatest-hits album, 20, offers everything the casual fan needs.
Prism is another collection of three-and-half-minute potential hits that even cynics will find hard to resist.
Poliça’s Shulamith is a much more cohesive and self-assured effort than the band’s debut.
New is an almost perversely titled album that, at least on the surface, seems like business as usual.
A Mary Christmas is an undeniably listenable but sadly too-safe hodgepodge of department-store standards.
Static has a heavy heart, presenting a band with not only a better understanding of their music, but of each other as human beings.
Beautiful Rewind is a reminder that Four Tet’s music is as much a listening experience as it is one that compels you to move.
Bitter Rivals is, in a word, predictable, and predictability is absolutely backbreaking to a band like Sleigh Bells.
Last night Eminem premiered the latest single from his upcoming album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, out November 5th.
On Caves, Tristen’s formerly distinctive songwriting style is overpowered by uninspired, overbearing production.
The album isn’t entirely without energy, pathos, or creativity, but too many edges have been sanded off the Avett Brothers’ music.
Uncanney Valley, the Dismemberment Plan’s first album in 12 years, is the sound of a group at ease with themselves and their legacy.
Pearl Jam has made a good vocation of staying carefully in their lane, and their new album, Lightning Bolt, is no exception.
Pusha T’s stubborn reliance on maintaining his brand on My Name Is My Name is probably not the wisest strategy in today’s shifting hip-hop climate.
Bangerz is a personal, idiosyncratic effort that finds equal rewards in twentysomething indulgence and inspiring “be yourself” mantras.
Interiors is nothing its title implies, but rather, outdoorsy, unstructured, whimsical, and wonderfully defiant of conventional labels.
Fatboy Slim is back with a new track, a collaboration with producer Riva Starr that samples some dude the pair met in Brooklyn.