Pop
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Sweetener may be a Top 40 album through and through, but it’s somewhat elevated by some quality production and Ariana Grande’s consistently strong vocal performances.
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Be the Cowboy is arguably Mitski’s most mature release, but most of the songs feel like a faint breeze.
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While the trap-goth direction of “Pictures of You” could use some work, this debut EP solidifies HMLTD as one of the most promising post-punk groups out right now.
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Let’s Eat Grandma’s sophomore album is a hodgepodge of mostly great ideas.
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Melody Prochet has bounced back with some of the freshest ideas coming out of neo-psych right now.
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Pretty much all the awkward kinks in The Internet’s previous albums evaporate on Hive Mind.
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Back to being a band, Dirty Projectors squanders a fair bit of potential on Lamp Lit Prose.
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serpentwithfeet’s debut album adeptly presents love in a simultaneously sweet and unsettling light, only occasionally being held back by some uneventful instrumentals.
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Florence + The Machine exercise a bit more restraint than usual on High as Hope.
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Still lacking a distinct voice as a singer and lyricist, Teyana Taylor is frequently outshined by her collaborators on K.T.S.E.