Pitchfork
Make-Up Is a Lie
The singer’s 14th album shows signs of progress and signs of regression, artful touches and leaden songwriting—it’s a new Morrissey album.
IOWA
The composer and producer casts a bleary eye upon the American Midwest on a chilling, starkly beautiful ambient album written as an homage to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.
The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore
Sculpted from years of collaborative sessions, the latest album from producer Florian T M Zeisig is a drifting patchwork inspired by rock music but structured like a beat tape.
El Niño Bola
The half-dissolved, Bluntian instrumentals on the Spanish singer-songwriter and Rusia-IDK affiliate’s debut hover between genuine melancholia and slog-pop demo tape.
The Needledrop
Gorillaz - The Mountain
In a lot of ways The Mountain could be seen as Gorillaz's most ambitious album so far.
Bruno Mars - The Romantic
Listening to 'The Romantic' mostly just makes you want to listen to the classic soul artists from whom Bruno is clearly pulling inspiration.