Swain heads in a moodier and relatively low-key direction with Negative Space.
i,i is in a sense a refinement of 22, A Million‘s innovations, but Justin Vernon still doesn’t seem particularly interested in tying up his songs’ loose ends.
Planetary Clairvoyance features more compositional versatility than its predecessor, but unfortunately a less impressive mix as well.
Part-man/part-meme Oliver Tree continues to find common ground between pop rock, rap, and electropop.
Immunity is at its best when Clairo manages to find power in simplicity and subtlety, which happens only some of the time.
The Sailor is by turns impressive and disheveled in its combination of so many rap and pop music styles.
Even though Cordae wears some of his contemporary influences on his sleeve, The Lost Boy is a solid and promising debut album.
David Berman’s wryly depressive (or depressively wry) songwriting seems to have only gotten sharper during his decade away from music.
Flamboyant is a distillment of what has made bubblegum bass so interesting over the past few years, as well as an apt commentary on gender politics.