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Kesha fills her first fully independent album with accordion disco, stadium-sized twang, and too many hooks to handle. It’s… confusi...
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“Bold, unapologetic, and utterly fearless” Something Beautiful – Miley Cyrus
With her smoldering alto, a roster of indie rock luminaries, and remarkable gusto, Miley Cyrus tucks into a concept album without a...
41 Longfield Street Late ’80s
Four Tet teams up with the American avant-folk guitarist on a radiant, joyfully surprising album that folds together country, ambien...
8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living
The prolific songwriter channels post-rock sprawl, electronic experimentalism, and percussive folk into meditations on domestic tens...
A Danger to Ourselves
The Colombian musician trades her typically fantastical subject matter for an album steeped in the immediacy of desire. The theme ma...
A Matter of Time
The Icelandic singer not only invokes the traditions of the Great American Songbook; she indulges, interrogates, and goofs on them,...
A Room With a Door That Closes
On her second album, the New York singer-songwriter searches for self-worth while impelling elements of folk, neo-soul, and alt-rock...
A Tropical Entropy
The exceptional debut album from the Miami producer captures the lively, menacing, and sensual sounds of his home—a dembow pop recor...
ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST
The prolific garage-rock icon and his bandmates channel their exhaustion with the state of the world into trippy psych-rock and furi...
Addison
The girlypop album of summer warrants comparison to Lana, Madonna, and most of all, Britney. Are we ready for Addison?
Adventure Club
Backed by a new band dubbed the Trauma Tropes, the Against Me! frontwoman pokes fun at minor indignities and major assholes in a set...
Ain’t in It for My Health
The young traditionalist channels a bygone era of country radio. He’s not trying to reinvent the wheel; quite the opposite.
AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!
Kaytranada slips back into dancefloor mode with a slick, relatively brief instrumental album. It’s the sound of an artist casually s...
Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles
On his second album since Mimi Parker’s death, the former Low singer steps away from electronic abstraction and into the steadfast s...
Album Review: Barker – Stochastic Drift
With Stochastic Drift, Barker doesn’t just return—he evolves. Released in April 2025 via Smalltown Supersound, this sophomore album...
Album Review: Casey Dienel — My Heart Is an Outlaw
A lush, late-night dispatch from an artist who stepped away, looked inward, and returned unafraid “I quit the idea of me.”— Casey Di...
Album Review: Geese – Getting Killed
“Desperation looks good on them.” That could easily be a pull quote, a tagline, or even a thesis statement for Geese’s d...
Album Review: Madison Cunningham – Ace
An exquisite, emotionally layered pivot from guitar prodigy to chamber-pop auteur If Madison Cunningham wanted to prove that mastery...
Album Review: Sudan Archives – The BPM
A fearless leap onto the dancefloor — full of invention, impulse, and identity in motion In a music landscape where artistic reinven...
Alfredo 2
On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the ra...
American Heart
Benson Boone’s flair can’t make up for the fact that his songs aren’t very good and that he lacks a unique point of view.
Animal Hospital
The Chicago indie rockers’ latest record is a tangled nest of wiry post-punk interwoven with strands of noise and pitch-black cabare...
Animal Poem
Through her graceful poetry and pristine instrumentation, the folk singer delivers indictments of modern indignities alongside momen...
Anyway
The New York chiptune group reinvents itself as indie rock lifers, alternating wistful looks back at its years in the DIY trenches w...