Sleater-Kinney tries new things throughout The Center Won’t Hold and, more often than not, they don’t pan out.
Face Stabber is perhaps Oh Sees’ most ambitious album to date, but its protracted jams wear out their welcome before long.
King Gizzard takes a successful swing at thrash metal on their second album of 2019.
To say the least, ! does not follow through on the potential of Trippie Redd’s previous work.
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.