8/10
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Purple Moonlight Pages is a thought-provoking self-portrait of the artist formerly known as Milo, as well as just a damn good jazz rap album.
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Code Orange updates metalcore for the 2020s on their latest album.
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The more direct and tuneful approach King Krule takes on Man Alive! makes it—to my ears—a vast improvement over The Ooz.
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HMLTD refreshes and recontextualizes a slew of post-punk sounds on West of Eden.
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Nicolas Jaar’s second outing as A.A.L. is a bit more far-out than the first, and about as fantastic.
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Unlocked is essentially a glitch in the matrix in hip hop form, and that’s a great thing.
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Dan Deacon hones his trademark fusion of electro-psychedelia and post-minimalism on Mystic Familiar.
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I Disagree is a metal-pop crossover that pans out remarkably well.
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Stormzy realizes his pop rap ambitions on Heavy Is the Head.
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Circles is the finest musical send-off any Mac Miller fan could have asked for.
