music commentary

Our writer felt like an outsider while listening to this record, but she’d love to do a remix.

Justin Bieber's new album is, above all, a detailed analysis of the value of his voice — to the listener and to himself.

Life is short — too short not to let significant joy creep in. And ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne has always known how to make joy significant.

With her new album, Grimes creates a giant, esoteric world teeming with all sorts of poisonous Jurassic life.

Now that it's OK to be into both club music and hip-hop, the world is FINALLY ready for Le1f.

Listening to McGraw’s new album is a Chevy pickup ride down the road to falling in love again.

A defiant Coheed fan loves the band’s fantastical past, but their blatantly personal new album about the pressures of adulthood is a banger.

Shoegaze isn’t a good enough description for what Trans FX does. It's a post-punk sound with a velvety cosmic Instagram filter over it.

The Philadelphia band's new album has a drinking problem. And it feels terrible. But it also feels great.

Pictureplane's latest album chases You across eleven songs — and sometimes it actually seems to see exactly who You is.

In a world with too much light, composer Max Richter's new album helps us find the dark spaces where magic has a chance to seep in.

Cultural appropriation without cultural appreciation is a recipe for disaster.