Benny Sings’ Music
Benny Sings’ Music is a pleasant, if largely forgettable, collection of songs that draw on the soulful and subdued sounds of the 1970s.
Ra Ra Riot’s Superbloom
Superbloom is Ra Ra Riot’s most successful album yet, boasting a radiant collection of colorful arrangements and irresistible pop anthems.
Perfume Genius' Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately is an undisputed triumph of musical and personal exploration; an album with the potential to be the best of the year.
The Weeknd's After Hours
Marrying aesthetics that recall his role in the 2019 thriller Uncut Gems with the sounds of new wave and pop, The Weeknd has crafted his best album to date, where his best a musical instincts can (mostly) roam free in a druggy dreamworld awash in trap-tastic beats.
The Strokes' The New Abnormal
The first proper release from The Strokes since 2013, The New Abnormal arrives as a reunion album of sorts that finds the group reaching for, and sometimes achieving, the inspired musical highs of their early discography.
Shabaka and the Ancestor's We Were Sent Here by History
We Were Sent Here by History is Hutching’s latest offering into the hallowed halls of the Impulse! discography and first with the Ancestors. A meditation on humanity’s coming extinction released against the backdrop of the global coronavirus pandemic, the music that fills these dual LPs is urgent, harrowing, and at times, otherworldly.
Georgia's Seeking Thrills
Georgia’s sophomore release on Domino Records, Seeking Thrills, is a love letter to dance music that boasts a track list so packed with quality songs that it plays like a greatest hits collection. It is as sonically complex and emotionally dense a pop album as you will find in music today, anchored by immersive electronic textures and addictive rhythms.
Tame Impala's The Slow Rush
The Slow Rush continues the trends that Parker started on Currents and hinted at on Lonerism, further honing his natural propensity for groove with sleeker production and shimmering disco songcraft.
Primal Scream's Screamadelica
To be human is to yearn for transcendence. We desire it as a means of connecting and experiencing something greater than ourselves, sometimes as a means of escaping the confines of our current reality for another one entirely. As I move into the latter part of my 20s, dance music has emerged as my primary means of chasing that otherworldly feeling.