“Map of the Soul: Persona” is the biggest album of 2019.
The music video for its lead single “Boy With Luv” broke the record for most YouTube views in 24 hours, with nearly 75 million, as well...
For every album that obtains some resemblance of fame, there are more than likely another fifty hiding in the trenches. Not available on Spotify or iTunes, Guitar Vader’s “From Dusk” perpetually...
If you were to take any standard pop record and attempt to drown it in the depths of a murky, muddy pond, it would probably sound a bit like Cows on Hourglass Pond. Avey Tare (Dave Portner) of Animal Collective...
“Begrudgingly catchy” is a phrase I thought I would never use in my lifetime, but it’s a phrase that describes Weezer’s “Black Album” to a tee. Rivers Cuomo and crew are back for their thirteenth...
This album was always gonna be a divisive one. If “That’s the Spirit” was Bring Me the Horizon’s attempt at testing the waters of pop music, “Amo” is them diving headfirst into it, without...
One thing I can say about “Anon.” is that it probably has the most fitting album title of the year so far. Ever since they cast aside their image as the “band that does post-hardcore instrumentals...
Charlyn Marie “Chan” Marshall’s tenth studio album as Cat Power, “Wanderer,” opens with an acapella track performed entirely by Marshall. This isn’t unusual for Cat Power, as Marshall typically...
The cover of Devonté Hynes’ latest release as Blood Orange features a winged man languidly sitting on a car window sill, ear to the roof and arms obscuring his face. To step into the shoes of photographer...
For even the most acclaimed artists, the "concept album" is a challenging beast. Crafting a satisfying, complete story while making sure each individual song can stand on its own two feet is one of music’s...
“Possibility of loss or injury.”
This is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word “risk.” Next to it, you should probably find a picture of Ariana Grande’s upside-down head...
One thing Panic! at the Disco has never done, from the emo cabaret of “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” to the dark electropop romp of “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die,” is make two albums that...
Pop-punk always makes for an interesting review, because it seems to be the genre where artists have the hardest time standing out.
Most pop-punk albums are simple, catchy collections of three-minute...
