Album Oct 2, 2025
Catholic Boy
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The Listening Room: page 2
We listened. Here’s what we heard.
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Album Oct 1, 2025
Bleeds
Karly Hartzman leads her North Carolina band in another triumph. The careful songwriting and coiled performances wrestle with…
Album Oct 1, 2025
Girl Violence
Mikaela Straus’ third album is a sexy, testy chronicle of disillusionment that proves sapphic pop needn’t be just…
Album Sep 30, 2025
Pain to Power
Mesmerizing but somewhat disjointed, the Manchester group’s debut album boomerangs between hardcore, hip-hop, free jazz, and alt-rock balladry…
Album Sep 29, 2025
Mark William Lewis
The London singer-songwriter’s latest album is full of imagistic lyrics, foggy atmospheres, and moodily unconventional pop. It’s an…
Album Sep 29, 2025
BRONTO
Canadian singer and songwriter Joel Gibb transforms his long-running indie-pop band into a Berlin-based subterranean house factory.
Album Sep 28, 2025
Songs for Other People’s Weddings
The Swedish musician’s companion album to a novel of the same name co-written with David Levithan is a…
Album Sep 28, 2025
Lick the Lens – Pt.1
For his debut project on Warp Records, the Swedish producer offers a mini-album of glitchy, pop-inflected IDM— the…
Album Sep 27, 2025
Let’s Meet at Junes
The rapper’s latest continues to open up his world with foggy scenes that capture a snapshot of being…
Album Sep 26, 2025
Breach
The duo’s eighth LP is a chaotic, maximalist pop-rock record that no one else could make, mostly because…
Album Sep 26, 2025
Hell Is an Airport
On its sixth album, the Michigan band ponders boredom, burnout, and suburban sprawl in a set of densely…
Album Sep 25, 2025
Who Is the Sky?
The artist’s new album of bright, bustling pop is positioned as a celebration of reasons to be cheerful.…
Album Sep 24, 2025
No One Was Driving the Car
On an album named after a deadly Tesla crash, the Michigan band channels its rage over greed, corruption,…
Album Sep 24, 2025
HAGEN
Grounded by the hum of cello, the new record from Mexico City duo Héctor Tosta and Mabe Fratti…
Album Sep 23, 2025
You Heartbreaker, You
Awash in menacing, libidinous energy, the Savages singer’s new solo album asks: What if the psychosexual angst of…
Album Sep 23, 2025
Essex Honey
Dev Hynes’ elegant new album, his first in six years, inhabits memories of an English childhood filled with…
Album Sep 22, 2025
Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
On her third solo album and first independent release, the Paramore frontperson channels a range of experimental pop…
Album Sep 21, 2025
Joy in Repetition
Drolly titled and curiously sequenced, the London electro-pop quintet’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humor, winning tenderness,…
Album Sep 21, 2025
Supreme Clientele 2
Once a peerlessly inventive rapper, Ghost has aged into ordinariness. His latest is a sturdy, occasionally invigorating outing,…
Album Sep 20, 2025
Clams Casino
The New York singer poses life’s big questions in the form of exuberant, classic pop-rock. His new album…
Album Sep 19, 2025
A Danger to Ourselves
The Colombian musician trades her typically fantastical subject matter for an album steeped in the immediacy of desire.…
Album Sep 19, 2025
International
With its 13th and final album, the trio is determined to go out with a bang, once more…
Album Sep 18, 2025
Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition)
Twenty-five years ago, a masked nu-metal band from Iowa crashed into the mainstream wearing jumpsuits and banging on…
Album Sep 18, 2025
Double Infinity
The cosmic folk band’s sixth album is their first as a trio. But they still sound loose, chaotic,…
