The times when King’s Mouth sounds like classic Flaming Lips partly make up for the album’s spotty narrative development and pacing.
Many of the songs on Care Package were better off unreleased.
Though there are some experiments and weird ideas that don’t really pan out, We Are Not Your Kind is for the most part a return to form for Slipknot.
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.
