Album Reviews8.3/10
Saba’s ‘Few Good Things’: Hard-Won Joy, Sharpened Craft
Saba's third record turns old grief toward daylight, weighing guilt against gratitude across fourteen songs of hard-won joy.
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Album Reviews8.3/10
Pusha T’s ‘It’s Almost Dry’ Sharpens a Formula He Already Owned
A rapper of drug-trade narrative builds twelve tracks in thirty-five minutes, no wasted verse, no wasted breath.
Album Reviews9.3/10
Eight Years On, Noname’s Room 25 Still Packs a Full Life Into 34 Minutes
Room 25 by Noname: 34 minutes of jazz, soul, and reckoning with self, memory, and grief across eleven tracks.
Album Reviews7.8/10
$oul $old $eparately: Freddie Gibbs Bets on Craft, and Mostly Wins
Freddie Gibbs arrives with a well-built record of fifteen songs, bars sharp as ever, though the reach falls short of his earlier prized work.
Album Reviews8.5/10
Denzel Curry’s ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ Refuses to Sit Still — and That’s the Point
A solemn survey of Denzel Curry's fifth record, a tumult of fourteen songs where genre melts and mingles across forty-five wild minutes.
Album Reviews6/10
Certified Lover Boy: 86 Minutes of Comfortable, Not Hungry
A grim, ninety-minute chronicle of Drake's ninth toil, wherein guest verses and hooks contend against the tedium of length.
Album Reviews8.7/10
Laila’s Wisdom: Rapsody Steps Fully Into Her Own Name
A grave chronicle of Rapsody's wisdom-laden record, whose fourteen tracks flow, in patient measure, through soul and solemn rhyme.
Album Reviews8.5/10
Danny Brown Turns Drug Panic Into Post-Punk Rap on Atrocity Exhibition — 8.5/10
A restless, grim record of drug panic and collapse, 15 tracks strong, that never once turns away from its own dreadful subject.
Album Reviews7.5/10
Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red Turns Rap Loud and Rough — and Mostly Pulls It Off
A wild, discordant swing at remaking a voice's sound arrives 24 tracks strong, urgent yet burdened by its own bulk.
Album Reviews8.4/10
Invasion of Privacy Proved Cardi B Was Never a One-Hit Wonder
An album that promises exposure and delivers it, wavering between clamor and quiet confession from a voice unwilling to be one thing.
Album Reviews5.1/10
Donda: The Tighter, Better Record Kanye West Chose Not to Make
A tenth album of vast repetition and grief — ideas of true weight, marred by excess that mars the whole design.
Album Reviews8.8/10
Call Me If You Get Lost Review: Tyler, The Creator’s Most Complete Record — 8.8/10
A wide-ranging rap record moving through soul, jazz and pop, never sitting still, never losing its rap base across sixteen tracks.