Album Reviews8.6/10
thank u, next: Grande Turns a Hard Year Into Her Most Confident Record
A record of confession and control, twelve songs written in the raw middle of a hard season, weighed and reviewed.
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Album Reviews7.1/10
reputation: Taylor Swift’s Darkest Gamble Mostly Pays Off
Taylor Swift's reputation trades her clean pop start for a darker, electronic turn — a record full of bite, revenge, and one quiet, tender moment.
Album Reviews7.3/10
ANTI at 10: Rihanna’s Riskiest Record Still Wins the Trade
A record of sixteen dirges wherein Rihanna forsakes the easy hymn for the discordant and the deeply felt.
Album Reviews8.7/10
Dirty Computer: Janelle Monáe Names Her Own Terms and Never Backs Down
A daring, joyous record naming its own truth, fourteen tracks of proud, personal song.
Album Reviews9.2/10
Lemonade at 10: Beyoncé’s Most Complete Statement Still Hasn’t Aged
A woman's fury, grief, and pride, wrought into one record of betrayal turned song — Lemonade, examined track by track.
Album Reviews6.8/10
Neil Young Chases Urgency, Not Polish, on ‘The Visitor’
A raw, restless record of rage and hope from Neil Young and Promise of the Real, uneven yet full of life.
Album Reviews6/10
Neil Young Puts a Full Orchestra Behind Ten New Songs on Storytone — Only Some Survive It
Neil Young's 35th studio work weds ten new songs to orchestra and big-band grandeur, a bold experiment that swings between triumph and excess.
Album Reviews8/10
Alone With a Guitar and Daniel Lanois’ Sonic Warping, Young Makes Le Noise Mostly Work
A solitary guitar, a haunted voice: Neil Young's Le Noise, a raw and singular record from an artist who will not rest.
Album Reviews6.1/10
Fork in the Road: Neil Young’s Loud, Loose Love Letter to His Electric Car
A raw, quick garage-rock record about cars and choices — an honest mess that works when heard as a strange, worn document.
Album Reviews7.5/10
Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s ‘World Record’: A Raw, Honest Climate Rock Album
A record made in a room with windows open: brief pleas for a suffering planet, one long ramble, and voices worn raw with meaning.
Album Reviews7.3/10
Quiet, Not Empty: Neil Young’s Silver & Gold Earns Its 7.3
Neil Young’s Silver & Gold is a quiet record made for close listening. Released in 2000, it runs just 39 minutes across 10 tracks, and it picks up where his acoustic songs on Looking Forward left off. The mood sits close to Harvest Moon: warm, unhurried, built for a front porch rather than a stadium. […]
Album Reviews7.7/10
Living With War Rushed From Studio to Protest, Ten Songs Aimed Straight at Bush and Iraq
Neil Young made “Living With War” fast, and it sounds like it. Ten tracks, 41 minutes, one target: the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. There is no subtlety here, and there is not supposed to be. This is protest music built for the moment, not for the ages, and it hits harder because […]