Bad Bunny: <em>DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS</em>
Benito bridges his sound with Puerto Rico’s vibrant roots to offer a heartfelt exploration of memory and resistance.
Liniker: <em>CAJU</em>
CAJU feels like you are sitting in a veranda listening to a friend tell you stories—the perfect record for a Brazilian summer.
Wallows: “Your New Favorite Song”
“Your New Favorite Song” showcases the band’s potential when embracing a more vulnerable and experimental sound.
Perfume Genius: “It’s a Mirror”
Mike Hadreas confronts memory and progress through a Southern Gothic lens.
Lana Del Rey: <em>Ultraviolence</em>
Ten years later, Ultraviolence feels less like a departure and more like a prophecy.
Miley Cyrus: <em>Endless Summer Vacation</em>
Miley Cyrus’ new album promises a good time but delivers dull, moody moments instead.
Caroline Polachek: <em>Desire, I Want to Turn Into You</em>
Just like summer, each song on Polachek’s whimsical sophomore record goes by fast and leaves you wishing for more.
SZA: <em>SOS</em>
SZA’s sophomore record sees the singer return with main character energy throughout its 23 brilliant tracks—very Tarantino, indeed.
Taylor Swift: <em>Midnights
On her tenth album, Swift shares some of her darkest thoughts over industrial, glitchy, and synth-pop tracks.
The 1975: <em>Being Funny In A Foreign Language </em>
There’s no other band or artist dissecting postmodernism and the internet era quite as well and precisely as The 1975.
Alvvays: <em>Blue Rev</em> Album Review
The third album by the Canadian band proves their ability to grind their influences into their own blissful version of shoegaze dream pop.
Frank Ocean: <em>Channel Orange</em>
Ocean’s atmospheric debut studio album is eclectic and diverse, and everyone can find a song on it to identify themselves with.
Shygirl: <em>Nymph</em>
The debut studio album by the UK-based singer is a candid assemblage of self-confidence and insecurity, both at once.
Frank Ocean: <em>Nostalgia, Ultra.
Ocean’s debut mixtape shook the parameters of R&B music and gave him room to create his subsequent, much-adored records
Phoebe Bridgers: <em>Stranger in the Alps</em>
Melodically beautiful, lyrically poetic, thematically macabre—Phoebe Bridgers’s ghoulish debut LP sees the singer plunge into her psyche with terrorizing calm.
Rina Sawayama: <em>Hold the Girl
Sawayama’s sophomore album is a suitable soundtrack to unravel inner traumas at a party for one.
Black Country, New Road: <em>Ants From Up There
There is an overflow of talent and technique on Black Country, New Road’s impeccable sophomore record.
Kacey Musgraves: <em>Golden Hour
Musgraves’ fourth LP is a hard-to-resist country record with pop aspirations and disco influences—forty-six minutes of unavoidable ear-lending.