art pop
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British singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine brings more bells and whistles on his sophomore album I Tell a Fly, but it’s unfortunately a case of more being less.
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Fever Ray returns in a diminished capacity with a long-awaited sophomore album.
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SOPHIE has returned with a single that’s quite unlike the bubblegum bass bangers that put her on the map. “It’s Okay to Cry” is instead an emotional, slow-burning art pop ballad that shows off the artist’s tender side. Fittingly, the song comes with a video wherein the
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St. Vincent delivers her most inconsistent album yet with MASSEDUCTION.
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Kelela’s debut album is a great representation of how cutting edge the alternative R&B genre can be.
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Here’s the beautiful and formless lead single from Björk’s forthcoming follow-up to Vulnicura, Utopia. It’s due out sometime in November, so there’s still time to ponder how much like Tinder the album’s going to sound. (Probably not much.) Update You can watch the song’s
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Zola Jesus’ latest effort may be grand in presentation, but it’s a little light on substance and quality songwriting.
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The latest Everything Everything album finds the UK art pop outfit taking their songwriting in a moodier and somewhat more conventional direction.
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I missed Benjamin Clementine’s latest single while on vacation, but good thing I went back for it because this is some of the London singer-songwriter’s most potent, visceral work yet. “God Save the Jungle” isn’t at all la-di-da like some of the stuff on Benjamin’s (still
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Susanne Sundfør teams up with former Czars frontman John Grant on “Mountaineers,” probably her spaciest track to date – with an amazing ending to boot. It’s the second single from the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Music for People in Trouble, which will be released August 25 via Bella Union.
