Album Reviews SWAGJuly 28, 2025Pop’s youngest elder statesman continues to evolve his R&B sound by enlisting some big names from the underground. His seventh album...13900
Album Reviews moisturizerJuly 25, 2025The UK duo’s second album is a near-reinvention, an unbridled and clear-eyed testament to their songwriting chops that hones their v...13900
Album Reviews SALTJune 25, 2025As its catalog comes to streaming, an overlooked band from the thriving 1980s Boston indie rock scene gets a proper reintroduction w...13800
Album Reviews I quitJuly 3, 2025On their fourth album, Haim break free from the shackles of whatever and cruise right down the middle of the road.13700
Album Reviews Load (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)July 6, 2025Messy, overheated, self-indulgent, divisive, and literally seminal, Metallica’s 1996 album lacked only a colossal 301-song, five-LP,...13700
Album Reviews I’ll Be Waving as You Drive AwayJune 24, 2025On his most majestic and sincere record yet, the Texas guitarist plays with grace and power, evoking the gentle emptiness of the Ame...13600
Album Reviews EndlingJune 21, 2025In a prequel to his orchestral work about a post-human Earth, the Dawn of Midi drummer and synthesist imagines the last survivor’s f...13500
Album Reviews Soft New Magic DreamJune 28, 2025The Pittsburgh synth misfits reopen the haunted funhouse with their first album since 2018. The ooky-spooky hypnagogia hasn’t change...13400
Album Reviews Tomorrow Comes CrashingJuly 21, 2025The Chicago band brings a bombastic energy to its third album, scaling up its hooks and digging deeper into dream-pop textures.13200
Album Reviews Church of Kidane MehretJune 23, 2025The latest in the always interesting batch of reissues from the Ethiopian pianist focuses on her most explicitly religious songs, wh...12900
Album Reviews American HeartJuly 10, 2025Benson 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.12800
Album Reviews The Universe Will Take Care of YouJuly 8, 2025The British producer and Polish clarinetist take a playful approach on their collaborative album, their compositions buoyed by the p...12600
Album Reviews Ripped and TornJune 26, 2025The young Chicago band crams its debut album with streamlined hooks and a reverence for pop, punk, and post-punk history.12300
Album Reviews INFINITY CLUB IIJuly 5, 2025Back for round two, the Toronto DJ’s thrilling bashment rave tracks temper turbo-charged riddims and booming bars with frosty electr...12300
Album Reviews Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25June 19, 2025Both nostalgic and forward-looking, the latest entry in the veteran DMV rap producer’s mixtape series offers an insider’s tour of a...11800
Album Reviews HymnalJune 28, 2025Armed with strings, laptop, and a lyric-selecting slime mold, the Berlin-based composer catapults classical minimalism into the futu...11600
Album Reviews PRINCESS OF POWERJune 25, 2025The Welsh pop singer’s sixth album returns to established themes of feminist empowerment and disco-pop maximalism. It often feels li...10900
Album Reviews Phantom IslandJuly 1, 2025The prolific Australian group lavishes its gently trippy compositions with orchestral arrangements. The results are often frustratin...10700
Album Reviews Tha Carter VIJune 26, 2025Seemingly written and recorded in a very expensive vacuum, the sixth chapter of Wayne’s legacy-making album series would be a disast...10300
Album Reviews It’s Closeness, It’s EasyJune 23, 2025From the bleary depths of shoegaze, ambient, and downer metal, Thom Wasluck’s first new album since 2017 returns with a pearl of har...10100
Album Reviews Tracks II: The Lost AlbumsJuly 11, 2025The sequel to 1998’s outtakes collection gathers a bounty of unreleased and largely unknown material. Offering unexpected, never-bef...8600