5/10
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While In Mind is Real Estate’s best-sounding album yet, the band still fails to provide anything beyond the surface of their blissful sound.
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Drake achieves auditory indifference with his new “playlist.”
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Laura Marling follows up her relatively bold 2015 album Short Movie with an album that’s, more often than not, void of emotion.
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Future washes, rinses, and repeats on a new set of merely passable tracks.
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The Flaming Lips follow up their 2013 album The Terror with a less emotionally and texturally rich project.
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The UK’s Little Simz returns with a concept album about making the transition from ignorance to awareness.
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The new Common album looked as if it would be a fresh perspective on the race relations in America, but it barely scratches the surface of the divides that have made so much press over the past few years.
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The Weeknd follows up last year’s Beauty Behind the Madness with an album that’s just as much of a roller coaster in terms of style and quality.
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The French electronic music duo returns with their weakest crop of songs yet.
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New York’s A$AP Mob is sounding a little too cozy on The Cozy Tapes, if you know what I’m sayin’.
