All Day Gentle Hold is Porches’s punchiest and most concise album to date.
Negro Swan is Blood Orange’s most assured, accomplished, and significant album to date.
The album has the potential of a personal masterwork, but its master is more conductor than confessor.
Blood Orange’s sophomore effort details a chronicle of alienation and broken romance with slow, melancholic, ’90s-gazing jams.
The bait and switch of the year so far can be found in the first 30 seconds of Zebra Katz’s irresistibly spare song.