On her sixth album, the singer-songwriter celebrates the respite and redemption of forging a radically independent path.
The album captures the visceral and tender dimensions of dance, pushing the boundaries of the musician’s artistry.
Aldous Harding’s Warm Chris invites close attention and rewards it with understated surprises.
On Classic Objects, Jenny Hval steps outside of herself to consider her position as an object of capitalism and patriarchy.
Broods’s Space Island is most effective when it disrupts its pervasive chill to inspect the details of crumbling love.
On Prey//IV, the former Crystal Castles singer continues to pursue healing through cathartic fantasies of violence.
Adele’s 30 digs deeper into the soul, jazz, and pop styles that have defined the singer’s music.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Raise the Roof expands the notions of collaboration and social exchange through music.
All Day Gentle Hold is Porches’s punchiest and most concise album to date.
Illuminati Hotties’s Let Me Do One More is full of swift and dramatic shifts in tone, from acerbic and brash to soft and despondent.
Chvrches’s fourth album, Screen Violence, is imbued with a more overt sense of political purpose, but it’s also abundant in hooks.
The boldest expressive choices on Martha Wainwright’s Love Will Be Reborn are vocal rather than thematic.
Orla Gartland’s Woman on the Internet attempts to challenge social norms but gets mired in lyrical abstractions.
Torres’s fifth album, Thirstier, straddles the line between art pop and art rock.
In a musical landscape that increasingly disfavors happiness, the band’s sixth album is an anomaly.
The album situates love as a force that works largely to bring trouble and pain.
While the musician has refined and reduced the vast variety of sounds and distortion of his debut, the warmth of his vision remains.
The singer spends little time dwelling on the specifics of her heartbreak or fully mapping the album’s emotional landscape.
Against a backdrop of hopelessness brought about by personal heartbreak and global disasters, the album is an act of self-preservation.
We’ve ranked all 17 songs from the singer-songwriter’s watershed eighth album.