At nearly 50 years old as a band, Judas Priest has just released not only a late career highlight, but one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the decade.
Cocoa Sugar is one of Young Fathers’ milder releases.
X makes some improvements on the mixing, singing, and songwriting fronts with ?, but the album is still a mixed bag consisting mainly of half-baked song ideas.
As you might’ve gleaned from its title, Pop Music finds Remo Drive taking their sound in a poppier direction. The results are decent but brief.
Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos explore the wide world of Latin American folk music with a generous tracklist of quality originals and creative revisions on Musas Vol. 2.
While not quite the grand artistic and social statement it was intended to be, American Utopia is brimming with forward-thinking pop and David Byrne’s unique persona.
Lil Yachty makes a return to form with Lil Boat 2.
Despite the bouncy production, good feature spots, and Logic’s technical ability, Bobby Tarantino II is just as inconsequential as its predecessor.
Dead Magic is Swedish singer-songwriter and organist Anna von Hausswolff’s best work to date.
Though there are a few strokes of genius on A Productive Cough, too often Titus Andronicus relies simply on the novelty of mimicking a bar band to sell the album.
