art pop
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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.
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Glitchy singer-songwriter Olga Bell has a new EP out called America, which takes its name from and includes three different mixes of the closing track from her 2016 album Tempo. But the highlight of the set is the non-album cut “Special Leave,” which features one of Olga’s most stunning
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Thanks to some clearer production, more up-front performances, and a zany new wave influence, GT ULTRA is the most I’ve ever enjoyed a Guerilla Toss album.
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On her sophomore album Melodrama, Lorde makes a few Top 40 concessions, but shows a ton of promise with the stylistic and formal risks she does take.
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Australia’s Kirin J Callinan delivers one of this year’s most colorfully eccentric pop records with Bravado.
