5/10
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House of Sugar is sprinkled with some brilliant and beautiful ideas, but is on the whole marred by an unsatisfying flow, dodgy songwriting, and faint lead vocals.
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Post Malone loses focus on his sophomore album.
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Sleater-Kinney tries new things throughout The Center Won’t Hold and, more often than not, they don’t pan out.
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Immunity is at its best when Clairo manages to find power in simplicity and subtlety, which happens only some of the time.
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Case Study 01 sounds much less polished and labored over than Freudian—perhaps in an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle—but, more often than not, the results are less than electric.
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Bombastic production isn’t enough to save Help Us Stranger’s often shabby songwriting.
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Gold & Grey‘s awful production overshadows its handful of songwriting peaks.
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Holly Herndon’s new album is partially aided by A.I. and features some creative, futuristic art pop pieces, but there are plenty of half-baked experiments as well.
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Flamagra mostly sounds like a hodgepodge of ideas FlyLo has already explored on previous efforts, and what surprises it does bring are hit-and-miss.
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Rammstein’s first studio album in 10 years falls apart after a promising first leg.
