Album Reviews
Madonna Finds a Nonstop Groove on Her Best Album in 20 Years
On Confessions II, pop's queen of queens shows how dramatic and ecstatic a dance floor can be
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Muse Wow Us Into Submission With Their 10th Album
The Wow! Signal, the U.K. neo-prog band’s latest, is a predictably heavy lift
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Metallica Got Weird in the Nineties. A New ‘ReLoad’ Box Set Shows Just How Alt They Got
Even “Master of Puppets” got a new haircut
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Ryan Beatty Wants Love to Last on ‘Sweet Fortune’
The singer-songwriter’s fourth album goes deep into his feelings without over-intellectualizing them, and finds a secret weapon in Clairo
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This New Collection of Radical Roots Music Reclaims the Outlaw
Released on Juneteenth, Outlaws’ Almanac is a righteous gathering of contemporary and repurposed folk-roots freedom songs
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Madonna Finds a Nonstop Groove on Her Best Album in 20 Years
On Confessions II, pop's queen of queens shows how dramatic and ecstatic a dance floor can be
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Muse Wow Us Into Submission With Their 10th Album
The Wow! Signal, the U.K. neo-prog band’s latest, is a predictably heavy lift
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Metallica Got Weird in the Nineties. A New ‘ReLoad’ Box Set Shows Just How Alt They Got
Even “Master of Puppets” got a new haircut
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Ryan Beatty Wants Love to Last on ‘Sweet Fortune’
The singer-songwriter’s fourth album goes deep into his feelings without over-intellectualizing them, and finds a secret weapon in Clairo
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This New Collection of Radical Roots Music Reclaims the Outlaw
Released on Juneteenth, Outlaws’ Almanac is a righteous gathering of contemporary and repurposed folk-roots freedom songs
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YG Gets Brutally Honest at 'The Gentlemen's Club'
The Compton-raised rapper engages in Olympic-level self-examination on his fourth studio album
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The Rolling Stones Continue Their Late-Career Winning Streak With ‘Foreign Tongues’
More guitar-centric and holistically Stones-y than their last outing, the latest from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band is built to satisfy
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Fruit Bats Find Treasures in the Detritus on the Full-Band Album ‘The Landfill’
Eric D. Johnson explores the unglamorous bits that make up the human story on a record that bristles with live energy
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Olivia Rodrigo Tells a Beautiful, Crushing Love Story
The superstar’s third album features even sharper storytelling, even more visceral emotions, and Robert Smith
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Lizzo Returns, But It Doesn’t Seem Like Her Heart Is in It
Bitch is full of tired moves and cynical appeals to the streaming algorithm
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