Protomartyr attempt a more climactic formula on Ultimate Success Today, with mixed results.
With Alphaville, Imperial Triumphant upholds its blend of extreme metal and jazz without sounding like a novelty. Sorry for not recognizing tracks 8 and 9 as bonus covers. They aren’t labeled on some platforms, but I should’ve expected the unexpected from this band. Normally I don’t take
Neither half of Love + Light is particularly well-defined.
333‘s ethereality may be roughly executed, but Bladee is onto something with this increasingly blissful direction.
Taylor Swift continues her upward artistic trajectory on folklore.
Better late than never, Logic is back to being a rapper worth rooting for on No Pressure.
Blu & Exile deliver a jazz rap album whose ambition and craftsmanship should go unmatched for some time.
Lianne La Havas’ self-titled album is fittingly her boldest yet.
Telas sounds like a collection of glitchy and electroacoustic leftovers—which, granted, mostly sound good—glued into quasi-longform pieces.
