For as enjoyable as many of them are, Yves Tumor’s pop tunes and comparatively experimental soundscapes don’t really reinforce one another on Safe in the Hands of Love.
$uicideBoy$’s debut album delivers a dark and grimy vibe, but the duo hasn’t evolved much artistically since they first started turning heads on Soundcloud.
Billy Woods and Elucid team up again as Armand Hammer for one of the year’s best abstract hip hop albums.
UK punk outfit IDLES return with an album that improves on the brutal and politically charged style the band delivered on their debut last year. One of the best punk albums of the decade without question!
George Clanton’s brand of 90s-inspired hypnagogic pop on Slide is fresh and intriguing despite the album’s concept not being taken far enough.
Eminem falls just short of ending his career on his latest album, Kamikaze.
Marauder offers little more than a washed-out version of post-Bright Lights Interpol.
Blood Orange’s latest is a dreamy, sensual, and holistic album with a message.
Though it’s a pretty solid work of modern psych, Smote Reverser isn’t the wall-to-wall excitement that Oh Sees’ last few albums have been.