review
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Rife with post-rock cliches, Deafheaven’s fourth album contains the band’s least inspired genre-blending to date.
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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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Zeal & Ardor’s unique blend of black metal and slave spirituals comes together in an exciting and blasphemous display on Stranger Fruit.
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Everything Is Love relies too heavily on its star power to feel anywhere near as consequential as Lemonade or 4:44.
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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.
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Vein’s debut album offers a diverting blend of metalcore and alternative metal styles as well as its share of growing pains.
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By adhering so much to its grand formula, Heaven and Earth comes off as even more cumbersome than The Epic.
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The Now Now is a pleasant mood album while it’s on—especially in comparison to Humanz—but it’s still relatively low-impact.
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Sorry to run with the obvious music critic quip, but it is pretty hard to hear what’s so redeeming about Redemption.
