Category: Reviews
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Gary Clark Jr. never ceases to surprise with his albums, from humbling and personal treks through Blues Rock in his first two albums to becoming more aware of the growing hostility due to racism, as evident with his politically charged “This Land” on 2019’s This Land. However, that hasn’t pushed aside the kind of work…
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I love to surf the web for DJ mixes and remixes of popular current songs, but it’s ever so rare that one artist’s remix tends to take me into their world. Some eventually became part of my ever-rolling album cycles, like Elkka, Nia Archives, Yotto, Dom Dolla, and more; however, one to have stuck with…
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Future’s last album, I Never Liked You, left me feeling tepid, and the Metro Boomin album was a fun, expansive vibe that showcased more of what we heard from his curated soundtrack for Across The Spider-Verse; when the two started teasing a new album with tweets and photos of themselves working in the studio, it’s…
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After Kacey Musgraves gave us the phenomenal Golden Hour, her life began to change on a personal front—she divorced Ruston Kelly, her husband, a Country/Americana singer-songwriter, and what stemmed from it was Star-Crossed, her last album, which took a personal journey that detailed the extent of Musgraves heartbreak, and the motions to move on. That…
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When Tierra Whack dropped Whack World in 2018, she showcased what her potential could reach while slowly matriculating a name for herself through features and some EPs in 2021. Those EPs reflected different genre conventions heard through a decadent array of focused tracks compared to the one-minute songs on Whack World. She takes both and…
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Norah Jones has never dwindled with being musically creative, as she’s grown as a Jazz/Soul/Pop singer after the momentous highs of her debut, Come Away With Me. From duet albums to more jazzier compositions, she has had potent consistency, which continues to show with her new album, Visions. Built differently from what she has done…
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Mannequin Pussy has an ear for sound, but how they deliver themes and the scope of what the music conveys has always been something that I’ve readily sought when digging through bands. Their new album, I Got Heaven, explores similar phonetic and sonic choices through new content that eschews the focus love songs of 2019’s…
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I’ve always readily fallen into pits where these new emerging artists speak loudly through their music while making a name that establishes themselves as more than just a musical act; they’re creators. With RaiNao, she quickly jumped into my ears and never left. With this burgeoning growth of Urbano music in the mainstream over the…
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Though Schoolboy Q hasn’t been quiet, it’s safe to say there may have been reasons to be after the mediocrity of Crash Talk. Though it wasn’t some albatross of an album, it left little to the imagination, as if there was some fear of losing relevancy despite how much fans and critics loved Blank Face.…
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If there is one thing I constantly marvel at when it comes to Hurray for the Riff Raff, Alynda Segarra’s everchanging style rooted in subtlety but speaks louder the more the album spins. With 2017’s The Navigator, we saw them take a more alternative approach to some of the indie rock influence coursing beneath the…
