Album Reviews
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Day and Night’ Is a Double-Album Dissertation on Love
Across 24 tracks, the prolific pop star traverses styles and continents while tracing the dazzling highs and devastating lows romance can bring
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Adéla’s Risk-Taking Pays Off on ‘Prima’
The pop phenom wraps stories of sacrifice and surrender with bold confidence on her maximalist debut
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Erykah Badu and the Alchemist Want You To Live in the Moment ‘Before the World Blows’
Their long-promised collaboration, which is also Badu’s first proper album in 16 years, plays to both of their strengths and delivers exactly what fans have been waiting for
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Alex Warren Is Kindly and Earnest Enough to Make You Root For Him
The man behind 2025's biggest hit digs deeper into his turbulent past while still honing his voice on Wildchild
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The New Prince Album Doesn’t Match His Legend
Timeless, a grab bag of from-the-vault material that spans decades, feels flat. It’s not even all that interesting as a collection of outtakes
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Day and Night’ Is a Double-Album Dissertation on Love
Across 24 tracks, the prolific pop star traverses styles and continents while tracing the dazzling highs and devastating lows romance can bring
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Adéla’s Risk-Taking Pays Off on ‘Prima’
The pop phenom wraps stories of sacrifice and surrender with bold confidence on her maximalist debut
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Erykah Badu and the Alchemist Want You To Live in the Moment ‘Before the World Blows’
Their long-promised collaboration, which is also Badu’s first proper album in 16 years, plays to both of their strengths and delivers exactly what fans have been waiting for
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Alex Warren Is Kindly and Earnest Enough to Make You Root For Him
The man behind 2025's biggest hit digs deeper into his turbulent past while still honing his voice on Wildchild
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The New Prince Album Doesn’t Match His Legend
Timeless, a grab bag of from-the-vault material that spans decades, feels flat. It’s not even all that interesting as a collection of outtakes
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Alabama Shakes Are Back — and Breaking New Ground — on 'I Must Be Dreaming'
On the group's first album in more than a decade, the Shakes sound like old friends exploring new sounds
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Mike D’s New Solo Album Is the Sound of a Beastie Revitalized
The first music from a surviving Beastie Boy since the death of Adam Yauch, Thank You finds a legend restless to go somewhere new
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Mastodon’s New Album, ‘Marrow Deep,’ May Be Their ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’
Recorded a week after the death of former bandmate Brent Hinds, the Atlanta metal crew mines its grief for one of their most emotional albums
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Brandon Flowers Goes Country But Gets a Little Lost on the Back Roads
The Killers frontman does a solid job channeling his Nashville heroes on Thrasher, but the mystery train doesn’t always stay on track
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Weezer’s 20th Album Is Good as Gold
With its looser feel and top-shelf songs, it’s hard to imagine a better record from this band this far down the line than the Gold Album
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