Pray for Paris does Westside Gunn’s established style well for the most part, but isn’t likely to convert many nonbelievers.
Fetch the Bolt Cutters has plenty of great ideas, but is sometimes betrayed by its raw presentation and quasi-experimental direction.
Rina Sawayama comes to us as a near-fully formed popstar on her debut album.
Even at its best, Blame It on Baby sounds like something DaBaby’s done before and better.
What Song for Our Daughter lacks in experimentation it more than makes up for with its robust songwriting.
Spirituality and Distortion might just be Igorrr’s most uncompromising album so far—for better or worse.
More than just an oddity in The Strokes’ catalog, The New Abnormal is a return to form after the disappointing Comedown Machine.
Southside is hard to forget for all the wrong reasons.
Heaven to a Tortured Mind, a surreal celebration of soul, Britpop, and glam rock, has greater clarity and flourish than Yves Tumor’s previous work.