Pop
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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.
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SZA delivers a strong full-length debut that explores the emotional complexities of being the other woman.
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Witness finds Katy Perry heading in exciting new sonic and lyrical directions, but is sometimes held back by Katy indulging in safer, staler sounds and her usual cliches.
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4 years after Beach Fossils’ great sophomore album Clash the Truth, the Brooklyn band has returned with their most lavish effort yet. I can still commend the band for not shamelessly trend-chasing like many of their dreamy, jangly contemporaries, but unfortunately the pastiche of ’60s pop sounds they serve up
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alt-J’s third album is the UK art pop outfit’s most inconsistent yet.
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Chromatics were featured in last week’s premiere of the new Twin Peaks series, and their soothing dream pop sound was just what viewers needed after two hours of Lynchian horror. Here’s the song they played as the credits rolled; it’s set to appear on the soundtrack Twin
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One More Light is a complete and utter betrayal of everything that made Linkin Park even remotely appealing to begin with.
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Poppy has done the Poppiest thing imaginable and created a love song for her computer, and of course there’s a video attached to it that has that Poppy aesthetic. We’ve reached peak levels of Poppy, people. I love it.