Album Reviews

100/100 Lana Del Rey has always been an artist easy to misunderstand. From Born to Die onward, she built her w […]

92/100 Lana Del Rey’s music has always sounded like a self-made mythology: Americana, Hollywood ruins, doomed

90/100 I don’t think Born to Die is Lana Del Rey’s greatest album. At least in terms of songwriting, vocal nua

100/100 Saying “history was made” about an album can easily sound exaggerated, but in the case of Kendrick Lam

98/100 good kid, m.A.A.d city is not just an impressive major-label debut. It is the moment Kendrick Lamar too

91/100 DAMN. is one of the most open and accessible albums in Kendrick Lamar’s catalog, but that accessibility

97/100 Hikaru Utada’s DEEP RIVER is not simply a great pop album. It is a record that quietly reshaped what Ja

92/100 I think ULTRA BLUE is one of the clearest examples of Hikaru Utada bringing together pop sophistication

90/100 Hikaru Utada’s Fantôme is an album shaped by loss, but it never collapses into grief alone. What it cap

95/100 E=MC² feels like one of the most underrated albums in Mariah Carey’s catalog. Because The Emancipation