If Ultra served as a spiritual rebirth for Depeche Mode, it was also a transitional work in the band’s catalog.
The Weeknd’s Dawn FM is a woozy, psychedelic deep dive inside the artist’s famously twisted psyche.
Tori Amos’s debut album, Little Earthquakes, helped reshape the pop landscape and the reverberations can still be felt today.
Alicia Keys exudes an effortlessness throughout her ambitious eighth album, Keys.
We look back at some of the music inspired by the crisis that (eventually) galvanized a generation into action.
Kelly Clarkson’s When Christmas Comes Around… juxtaposes the yuletide blues with jubilant holiday standards.
“If You Say the Word” is quintessential Radiohead, a comment on the ennui of late-capitalist society.
Thirty years later, we take a look back at Mariah Carey’s underrated sophomore effort, Emotions.
Charli XCX describes “Good Ones” as “twisted, dramatic, and quite frankly electrifying.”
Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power thrillingly homes in on notions of self and identity.
On Solar Power, Lorde presents herself as a pop star in exile, one who’s rejected fame and all of its material trappings.
The songs on the Killers’s Pressure Machine take their sweet time unfurling, luxuriating in subtle details.
Billie Eilish pours her heart out in the self-directed music video for ‘Happier Than Ever.’
The songs on Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever seamlessly trace the singer’s path to happiness, or something close to it.
Sling is less commercial than Clairo’s debut, but it’s also more thematically and musically myopic.
Thom Yorke reimagines Radiohead’s “Creep” as nine-minute acoustic dirge.
Halsey teaming up with Reznor and Ross is the collaboration we didn’t know we needed.
The songs comprise a nebulous mass not unlike the swirling galaxy of the album’s cover art.
The new edition allows the singer to expand beyond the original album’s sonic remit.
The track has a positive, psychedelic quality that’s ready-made for summer.