4/10
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Princess Nokia’s love for the emo scene can’t really be doubted, but A Girl Cried Red more often than not borders on unintentional parody.
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Kacey Musgraves softens and buries everything country about her music on the bland Golden Hour.
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The Neighbourhood incorporates more elements of synthpop and alternative R&B on their self-titled album, which is about as drab as what came before it.
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X makes some improvements on the mixing, singing, and songwriting fronts with ?, but the album is still a mixed bag consisting mainly of half-baked song ideas.
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Moorhead emo outfit Tiny Moving Parts release one of their most creatively bankrupt albums thus far.
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Overloaded and underwritten, Migos’ sequel to Culture says more about the trio’s business model than it does the artform.
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No Shame is not without a few highlights, but on the whole it’s Hopsin’s most tone-deaf album to date.
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Jaden Smith’s latest film is an auditory one, exploring the lyrical follies of a rich-kid-turned-mediocre-rapper in desperate need of perspective as he produces 70 minutes of egotistical propaganda in the hope it will launch his rap career.
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Reputation focuses more on the pop star narrative than it does actual pop songs.
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UK pop singer Sam Smith’s latest album turns blue-eyed soul into a chore.
