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.
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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
Neil Young’s Prairie Wind Rates a 7.3 — Warm Acoustic Craft Undercut by a Bloated Deluxe Edition
Prairie Wind is Neil Young’s return to the acoustic, string-and-harmonica sound of Harvest and Harvest Moon. It arrives in 2005 shaped by two events: a brain aneurysm Young survived and the death of his father. The deluxe edition reviewed here runs 26 tracks and 68 minutes, mixing the album’s nine songs with spoken interview segments […]
Album Reviews6/10
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Jam Through Grief on ‘Broken Arrow’ — Good Songs, Loose Shape
“Broken Arrow” runs eight tracks and 47 minutes, and it wants to feel loose, live, unpolished — a band playing in a room, not chasing a single. Neil Young made it with Crazy Horse in 1996, not long after producer David Briggs died, and the record leans hard on long jams and guitar interplay instead […]