8/10
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Rosalía makes a fantastic transition into modern pop aesthetics without sacrificing her flamenco roots.
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Aviary allows patient listeners an opportunity to sink into the depths of pure beauty.
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The Light Is Leaving Us All might not be particularly strange or unique in the grand scheme of Current 93’s extensive discography, but it’s nevertheless a lovely return to the band’s neofolk sound.
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Polyphia comes through with a tight and versatile modern math rock album.
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Twenty One Pilots take their catchy songwriting, genre blending, and emotional lyricism up a few notches on Trench.
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Kero Kero Bonito make their Polyvinyl debut with a pretty radical departure from the signature sound cemented on Bonito Generation. Thankfully, Time ‘n’ Place is every bit as good as that album.
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Twisted Crystal is all the zany pop fun of GT Ultra, but set in space and on LSD.
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Noname’s music has only gotten even more gorgeous and charming since her breakthrough mixtape Telefone.
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Collapse is Richard D. James’s best release since the return of Aphex Twin.
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Billy Woods and Elucid team up again as Armand Hammer for one of the year’s best abstract hip hop albums.
