The album is an economical calling card and the sound of a band coming into their own.
While the album doesn’t necessarily break new ground for the band, it’s an exemplary display of what they do best.
The album doesn’t quite justify its runtime, but the rapper has the good sense to try out a series of different stylistic conceits.
The trio struggles to find a collective identity or creative method that complements their myriad talents.
The album implicitly and explicitly tangles with the question of where an artist as singular as Karin Dreijer can go from here.
The album sign-posts its themes and musical choices but lacks a coherent overall vision.
No matter the tempo or setting, the singer’s sophomore effort is fully aware of how the body can both entrap and liberate.
The album feels like an assemblage of enjoyable ingredients that doesn’t coalesce.
As a concept album about good and evil, Heroes & Villains mostly delivers.
The album is filled with accessible musings on urban life and epiphanies spurred by lovers and considerations of mental health.
The album is rooted in our current moment, though it occasionally paints with a broad brush.
For the most part, the album delivers the kind of deceptively simple, fleet pop for which the band is best known.
The album is a markedly more stoic effort from a singer who, up until now, has been relentlessly upbeat.
Lil Baby’s third album plays as if ripped from the rapper’s diary, confronting trust issues and the loss of friends.
The artist’s least celebratory album to date, Spirituals is nonetheless ornate and often frenetic.
A potent sense of artistic and existential dissatisfaction permeates the synth-pop band’s eighth album.
In keeping with its title, the prolific Louisiana rapper’s fourth album plays like the end of an era.
On her seventh album, the singer displaces us from both history and the present and situates us in her unique ecosystem.
The album attempts to bridge a number of gaps in a way that can feel bland and devoid of context.
The scope of the 80-minute, 23-track album allows the rapper-singer to explore the full breadth of his romantic and sexual proclivities.