2015
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Purity Ring’s latest record strips the mysticism out of their sound, and replaces it with a plush, gritless aesthetic.
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Earl Sweatshirt’s latest release is noticeably darker than his last, but it doesn’t necessarily surpass it.
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Experimental rock and metal act Liturgy makes a magnum opus of the sounds and ideas forged on their last album.
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NY rapper Action Bronson comes through with his glitziest album yet, loaded with classy piano instrumentals and over-the-top lyrics. It’s the mountains of filler after the first third of the LP that kills it, tho.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor hangs in their comfort zone on this new, relatively unambitious record of theirs.
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Sufjan “Subaru” Stevens comes through with an incredibly sad, personal, and subtle record with Carrie & Lowell.
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Death Grips finally completes an immense double album with the release of Jenny Death, assembling two very different–but satisfying–releases in the DG discography.
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UK singer-songwiter Laura Marling releases one of her most upfront albums yet.
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Several years ago, Kendrick Lamar was hip hop’s underdog. Today, he’s dropping what’s possibly the best rap album of the decade.
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Aside from the closing track, this new, free Ratking project feels like a whole lotta filler.
