Album Reviews

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  Les Louanges Drives His Sound in Many Directions but Doesn't 'Crash'

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2022

  The refreshing funkiness and relatable lyrical content of La nuit est une panthère, the 2018 debut album by Vincent Roberge's Les Louanges...

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  Tanya Tagaq Leaves Little Unsaid on 'Tongues'

  PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2022

  Inuk musician, author, painter, activist and mother Tanya Tagaq was not raised on the several-thousand-year-old art of throat singing. Afte...

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  Earl Sweatshirt's Resilience Is the Remedy on 'SICK!'

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2022

  Opening new album SICK!, Earl Sweatshirt exhibits a creative clarity his music has eschewed in recent years. On first track "Old Friend" —...

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  FKA twigs' High-Concept Approach Elevates the Mixtape on 'CAPRISONGS'

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2022

  FKA twigs has been known to fashion herself into an art object. She was the focus of protracted closeups in her earliest music videos, call...

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  Moist Keep Their Legacy Afloat on 'End of the Ocean'

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2022

  The knock on so many Canadian '90s alt-rock bands was that they couldn't make it in the States. Try as they might, Our Lady Peace, Matthew...

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  Bonobo's 'Fragments' Is an Inspiring Meld of Organic and Electronic

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2022

  From the moment Fragments begins, you know you've arrived. Where is of little consequence — it's certainly not bearing of any physical loca...

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  Chastity Plumbs the Passion of Emo on 'Suffer Summer'

  PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2022

  The genius of Chastity's 2018 debut Death Lust manifests in the many roads it opened for the project's mastermind Brandon Williams. Death L...

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  Gunna Is Best When He Stays in His Lane on 'DS4EVER'

  PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2022

  Like any emerging rap artist from the South, Gunna's emergence into the hip-hop consciousness in the late 2010s was met with a number of co...