Though generally not lacking in beauty or scale, The Ascension has a handful of somewhat grating moments that make it harder to love as a holistic experience.
At its worst, Ohms is some of the most aggravating music Deftones has ever recorded. At its best, it’s the band painting-by-numbers.
Ultra Mono is Idles’ most sonically and thematically focused album so far, occasionally to a slight fault.
Nectar offers Joji’s highest highlights to date, though all in all it could’ve benefited from some more editing.
While Shore finds Fleet Foxes stumbling on a few risks, the album mostly serves to streamline the band’s sound and remind us what made them so special in the first place.
Canadian art pop songstress Klô Pelgag shows great potential on her latest album.
While a lot trimmer than the preceding Face Stabber, Protean Threat is about as hit-and-miss.
On his debut album, Lil Tecca does little to distinguish himself from the current crop of formulaic melo-trap artists.
Despite being a quarter of 7G‘s length, Apple is somehow the less consistent album.
