Lil Wayne’s long-delayed Tha Carter V has enough highlights to carry it through, while metal vets High On Fire offer…
Sonic and emotional economy tend to be Chan Marshall’s greatest strengths. Her albums as Cat Power sound like…
Of course Cher pulls off the ABBA tribute Dancing Queen. Elsewhere BROCKHAMPTON continues to reveal new shades on Irides…
Piano & A Microphone 1983 is an unpolished Prince gem, while Metric loses focus on Air Of Doubt, and Lonnie Holley is…
When Christine And The Queens emerged with 2015’s self-titled effort, the album was a welcome antidote to sterile pop…
In 2016, Noname made waves when she debuted with Telefone, a vivid, soulful collection of jazz-rap establishing her …
Although the film’s aesthetic owes just as much to bad-trip ’70s psychedelia, the phrase you’ll hear most often when…
Low goes fully experimental on Double Negative, while Philly’s Spirit Of The Beehive gains focus on Hypnic Jerks, and…
Spiritualized leaves us (maybe, but probably not) with the essential And Nothing Hurt, while Chilly Gonzales’ Solo Piano…
For two artists that don’t sound or act much alike musically, the parallels between the careers of Paul McCartney and…
Wild Nothing returns to glorious form on Indigo, while Danny Brown and the Bruiser Brigade Reign Supreme on their…
No one would call Anna Calvi’s music tame. This is an artist who announced herself in 2011 with the rousing drama of “De…
Controlling the context of your creation is something of a fantasy for any artist, but especially a Black artist.…
Ariana Grande illustrates once again that she is an unparalleled pop chameleon on Sweetener, while KIN splits the…
Nicki Minaj reaches for the throne room, Animal Collective unearths an interesting live artifact, Death Cab do more…
Mitski makes music about inexpressible emotions—urgent, intimate dispatches that seem to come from her very soul. At…
Foxing reaches for the skies on its biggest and best record, country singer Shooter Jennings fires off a spotty but…
YG stays dangerous, while Helena Hauff’s Qualm is her rawest collection to date, and The Nature Of Imitation is a…
In this week’s notable new releases: Hive Mind is a step forward for The Internet, while Devouring Radiant Light…
Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit Prose calls to mind the band’s late-’00s peak, while Deafheaven reach higher on album No. 4,…