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Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
Lowest review score: 0 Playing With Fire
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,085 out of 3519
  2. Mixed: 407 out of 3519
  3. Negative: 27 out of 3519
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    the record
    It's never a guarantee that a collaboration from talented soloists will work, let alone multiple times. The Record navigates that hurdle deftly enough to suggest that none of these artists have reached their full potential. Neither has Boygenius.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Midnights
    Still, if the songs on Midnights aren't her stickiest, it doesn't much matter while they're playing, given how effectively they generate a mood and paint effective pictures.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Loneliest Time
    The Loneliest Time, Jepsen's sixth album (and the outcome of her being in pandemic lockdown), retains the ardor of her pop-cognoscenti-beloved albums Dedicated and Emotion, but it flaunts a new self-reflective streak that both energizes its highlights and opens the door for Jepsen to play with — and expand — her sound.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Renaissance
    The catalog of touchstones, samples, and cameos on Renaissance could double as a syllabus for a master class on the evolution of dance music as it has unfolded during Beyoncé's lifetime.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    HONESTLY, NEVERMIND
    Instead of taking a much-needed left turn and cranking it up to 11, he's settled for something safe — something too smooth, too worldly.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Harry's House
    Styles has put together an album that's so solid, even moments that would be cringeworthy when handled by lesser pop stars feel earned. ... Harry's House is also emotionally heavy at times, with Styles' understated delivery adding power to his plainspoken lyrics.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Blue Water Road
    Most songs on the brisk 37-minute LP unfold like a breezy coastal drive — you can practically feel the beachy wind in your hair and hear the lulling tides lapping at the shore, waiting to pull you in. This is vibe music. But more upbeat cuts like "Any Given Sunday," featuring blxst, and the Justin Bieber duet "Up At Night" offer more of a jolt.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Familia
    Ten years into her career — and despite the multitude of insecurities she addresses throughout Familia — the 25-year-old appears more sure of herself than ever.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fear of the Dawn
    A woolly wall of sound from the chugging blown-out opener "Taking Me Back" to the spiraling title track. [Apr 2022, p.106]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Chloe and the Next 20th Century
    The student has become a maestro. [Apr 2022, p.106]
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Humble Quest
    Morris' full breadth is encapsulated on Humble Quest, and it's far more ambitious than the title suggests. The 32-year-old's third studio album mines a rich yet relatable personal life
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Tipping Point
    Not everything lands, and not everything that lands sticks. Even so, there aren't many 17-year hiatuses that end by presenting a group with plenty of gas left in the tank. "When I'm 40 years older/When I'm wrinkled and wise," sings Orzabal — and The Tipping Point makes a compelling argument that it will be worth the wait.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Good Morning Gorgeous
    If 2017's Strength of a Woman was her divorce record, chronicling the messy end of a 15-year marriage to producer Kendu Isaacs, Gorgeous is the sound of an artist slowly emerging from the other side.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Lucifer on the Sofa
    The result is Lucifer on the Sofa, Spoon's loosest, liveliest album since 2010's unruly low-fi gem Transference, which combines that LP's spontaneous spirit with the meticulous production and sharp melodic hooks of their most memorable work.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Time Skiffs
    These nine songs are the most inviting and accessible Animal Collective have been in more than a decade, with lovely lazy-river synth squiggles and gangland vocals as smooth as melted butter. [Feb 2022, p.107]
    • 88 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Dawn FM
    Dawn FM might be just shy of summoning the truly divine, but its best moments provide enough blinding light to counter the increasingly enveloping gloom of 2022.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    30
    A surprisingly personal album that showcases how Adele has matured, both as an artist and as a person, since the middle of the last decade. She could have built on her blockbuster success in a cynical way, copy-and-pasting "Rolling in the Deep" and "Hello." Instead, she lets her emotions guide her, with triumphant results.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    An Evening with Silk Sonic
    The pair are clearly having fun with their loverman shtick here — a knowing throwback to a more-cowbell era when all the cars were Monte Carlos, the lamps were lava, and #MeToo was but a distant, joy-killing dream. Mostly that comes through with an obvious wink; other times it lands somewhere between Pepé Le Pew and Ron Burgundy on the self-awareness scale.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Thank You
    Thank You is a powerful showcase for how good Ross is even after a two-decade absence.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blessings and Miracles
    That Santana can still impose his stamp on a solid handful of tracks is absolutely worth celebrating. That he's unable to grab the spotlight on the rest of Blessings and Miracles offers a hint of what he's sacrificed along the way.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    In These Silent Days
    Seven albums in, Carlile has long since proven herself constitutionally incapable of making a bad record. She's not about to start now.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Remember Her Name
    Her debut album Remember Her Name, which is full of heartfelt songs that soar and shiver alongside Guyton's majestic vocal, is a full-spectrum showcase of her long-simmering talent.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Star-Crossed
    If the tone for most of the record's first half tips heavily toward 2 a.m. regrets and tempos that rarely rise above a broken heartbeat, the BPMs shift, however briefly, on "Breadwinner." With its tart warnings to steer clear of a meal-ticket man who "wants your shimmer/To make him feel bigger/Until he starts feeling insecure," the track feels like a buoyant callback to the chicken-fried wit of past standouts like "High Horse" and "Biscuits."
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Certified Lover Boy
    The new album is like watching the eighth season of a sitcom and growing hyper-aware of all the recycled jokes and actors' laugh lines.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
    Once again showcases her vulnerability, opening up old wounds from relationships with her father, a past lover, and, ultimately, herself. [Sep 2021, p.107]
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Screen Violence
    Even amid all the worrying, their defiant, quivering music vibrates with possibility in a way that plainly and passionately refutes even the darkest moments of despair their lyrics express. [Sep 2021, p.107]
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Solar Power
    There's a subdued quality to Solar Power that feels a lot like caution, or just self-protection — a deliberate retreat from the raw, unfiltered verve of her earlier output into the safer remove of a wry bystander more at ease with cool observation than confessional bloodletting.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Happier than Ever
    The hooks are less immediately earworm-y than stomping When We All Fall anthems like "Bad Guy" or "Bury a Friend"; only rarely do the BPMs bump up high enough to transfer to the dance floor. Mostly, the beats are there to frame Eilish's singular voice: a smoky, silvery instrument that swoops and dips between vulnerability and bravado, jazz-bar bossa nova and confessional Gen Z poetry.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Pink Noise
    Pink Noise revels in the freedom of moving beyond stress for something peaceful, adding yet another layer to Mvula's already-rich tapestry of sound.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Planet Her
    Fizzy and golden. ... A pop-star boss and player president of the Planet she's created, dictating her own laws of gravity.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Culture III
    It isn't a slog, but it's closer in shape and spirit to the loose bloat of Culture II than the carefully sculpted gothic trap-pop opus Culture. Still, it is a satisfying listen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Path of Wellness
    Even despite the weight of expectation, reinvention, and continuity, Wellness marks a fine new chapter for Tucker and Brownstein. It may even be one for Sleater-Kinney.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Soberish
    Revels in nervy song structures and unexpected instrumental touches even on its more straightforward tracks, such as the "Polyester Bride"-echoing "Good Side." The horns that rise up to accompany Phair's solidified sense of self on the slow-burning "Soul Sucker" give her inner journey a heroic feel, while her voice's airy upper register makes the plea at the heart of "Lonely St." even more potent.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Sour
    Sour doesn't try to be "the next" anyone; instead, Rodrigo distills her life and her listening habits into powerful, hooky pop that hints at an even brighter future.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Delta Kream
    It often feels less like a distinct set of songs than a deliberate mood: a slow-rolling swagger through a bygone era, gilded by the band's own faithful imitations. That's bad news for hook-happy fans, maybe, but a living history lesson too.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Battle at Garden's Gate
    Where Anthem positioned Greta Van Fleet as an overqualified cover band in gestation, Battle gives brief glimpses of potential for a collective determined to graduate from Guitar Hero savants. What's hindered Greta Van Fleet's attempts at individualism is their penchant for thrash and bombast.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Deacon
    Where Soil embraced the discord of romantic entanglements, Deacon, its follow-up, is a celebration of the opposite: the comfort and assurance that swells from deep connection. [Apr 2021, p.73]
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Chemtrails Over the Country Club
    Chemtrails is less a full transformation than the first step forward in another direction.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Justice
    Justice happily expand its sonic palette with more textures and tempos.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Revelación [EP]
    Revelación proves that Gomez is up to the task — and a far more versatile musician than she's been given credit for.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    MUSIC: Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
    Sia's previous triumphs have set a high standard, one that Music doesn't meet. Her "awesome" intentions aside, the album's messages of affirmation and encouragement may be well-meaning, but ultimately fall short while underlining Music's broader, damaging issues.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Flowers for Vases/descansos
    Flowers puts a lens on her weaker moments without any performative brightness. She simply lets her softer side shine. Gone are the animalistic vocals, replaced with a gentler tone that invokes a towering kindness and grace that pandemic-related solitude has allowed. ... She once again proves there is a fragile beauty that comes with facing the darkest parts of yourself, no matter how painful the process might be.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    OK Human
    The problem with OK Human isn't that Cuomo makes a facepalm-inducing Kim Jong-un reference and rhymes sad with bad, it's that there's not enough genuine pathos to outweigh the places where he can't help himself. Instead, the fleeting moments of authenticity are hidden beneath a pile of hokey one-liners, spotty vocal performances, and awkward arrangements that rely on the accompanying orchestra to provide all of the emotional depth.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    evermore
    Swift's lyric-writing abilities feel leveled-up on Evermore, its characters drawn in pointillistic detail. ... Similarly, the musical risks on Evermore are bigger, both in scope and in payoff. ... Freedom from expectations has, both with this album and its predecessor, led to Swift's leaps giving new heights to her already-pretty-skyscraping career.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    McCartney III
    Like any contemporary Macca project, III feels like comfort food. Credit that voice, charming and unmistakable after decades of use. Hearing it anew is like curling up inside a warm blanket.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nightmare Vacation
    Nasty can be funny and furious, bratty and spectacularly off-the-wall. [Dec 2020, p.101]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Dec 4, 2020
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Wonder
    Accordingly, even though Wonder is his fourth studio album, it often feels like the sound of an artist still discovering himself in real time — the pleasant but vaguely unplaceable style of previous hits like “Treat You Better” and “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back” now gilded with swirling psychedelic pomp (on the expansive title track), ring-my-bell disco (“Teach Me How to Love”), and slinky R&B (“Piece of You”).
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Plastic Hearts
    Despite Cyrus' disavowal of Younger Now's Nashville sound, the best moments on Plastic Hearts come when she delves into power ballads, which blend the over-the-topness of glam with the teary storytelling of country music.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Positions
    There is be little risk and reward on Positions, yet Grande's simple desire to memorialize the beginnings of a new love in real-time, and the new fears it entails, has allowed her to create a body of work not beholden to the narrative of resilience. It might not make for her most arresting album nor her most dramatic, but it’s certainly her most sensuous.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Love Goes
    It's the prettily composed ballads — wounded, swooning, steeped in regret — that tend to lead.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)
    It’s a living document and continued legacy of a once-in-a-generation talent.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
    Snags aside — “The Lost Chord” sounds bloated, and bonus cut “MLS” sands the edges off JPEGMAFIA — Strange Timez (out Oct. 23) adds a delightful new chapter in Gorillaz’s ongoing tale of cross-pollination.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Wildflowers & All The Rest
    Suffused with warmth and memory, this set belongs among your Tom Petty records. [Nov 2020, p.97]
    • 71 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Shiver
    Offers a new kind of glimpse into his private world, singing intimately of desire and raw vulnerability. Maybe that's why Shiver feels as liberated as it does: the sound of an artist in midstream, still discovering how far his voice can go. [Oct 2020, p.95]
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition]
    On a purely musical level, this collection is a true beauty, with 63 previously unreleased tracks. ... For the completists, you’ll want this set forever in your life.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Smile
    Even at its sweetest, Smile still feels like the the too-familiar work of a star committed to remaining pleasantly, fundamentally unchanged--and that may be the only mortal sin pop music can't forgive. [Sep 2020, p.100]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Limbo
    The record falls off during its latter half as the melodic R&B cuts begin to blend together. And in lieu of a clear-cut concept, the random spoken-word tidbits that appear throughout the tracklist feel frivolous compared to how Blood Orange and Frank Ocean used them on their last albums.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Born Here Live Here Die Here
    He's content to remain firmly within the bounds of where he's always been. The album title may as well be referring to Bryan's artistic development.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    No Pressure
    A much-needed corrective, a back-to-basics palate cleanser that rights the ship with help from co-executive producer No I.D., who was the guiding hand behind his debut record Under Pressure. It’s the cleanest album he’s ever made.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Made Of Rain
    Rain’s black-velvet melancholy makes it easy to pretend they never left.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    folklore
    Swift explodes the expectations of anyone preparing to call her music "diaristic," writing songs from different perspectives while putting her already-detailed work under a microscope. ... A content smile of an album on which one of the world's biggest pop stars, charts be damned, forges her own path and dares listeners to come along for the ride.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Roy Ayers JID002
    The album feels too short to be a definitive statement. [Jul 2020, p.75]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lianne La Havas
    Fans may be disappointed by La Havas' reserved lyricism here, but the femme gem "Sour Flower" and a take on Radiohead's "Weird Fishes" should be enough to compensate. [Jul 2020, p.75]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Gaslighter
    By blending early-21st-century pop savvy with the storytelling that made country music so crucial to the American canon, Gaslighter is all fire and nerve, performed by three women whose musical bona fides are rivaled only by their rock-solid backbones.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
    With stakes this high and a legacy to consider, the end result may or may not bear much of a resemblance to what Pop Smoke had in mind. Nonetheless, he sounds alive here, a motivated and vibrant hip-hop talent actively pushing towards that next level.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Rough and Rowdy Ways is a clear reflection of America’s jagged landscape — one of romance and mystery, creativity and fortune, protestations and politicking, conquests and colonialism. It makes for an exquisite, haunting listen.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Album
    The result is less experimental but feels more illuminating, erring on the side of verbosity in contrast to the concision of its predecessor. By stretching out various emotional modes, she suggests the multitude of ways to show up in the world as a woman — and as a wife and a mother.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ungodly Hour
    It's undeniably pretty: stacked with the kind of clean harmonies and gently syncopated R&B that doesn't so much demand ear space as sidle up to it, unassumingly.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Chromatica
    An audacious, glitter-dusted promise of escape from the sad, the bad, and the ordinary, delivered at 120 BPMs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Chapter 1: Snake Oil
    Diplo's second album might be a cheeky bid to stake out a spot in Nashville, but the end result is largely a bummer, a collection of dourly self-conscious "chill" accessorized with the kind of cheap cowboy hat that gets left behind on the way to the festival parking lot.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Notes on a Conditional Form
    A delightfully overstuffed collection that features some of their best and most immediately pleasing work to date.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    High Off Life
    While the commercial prospects for High Off Life remain high, Future seems, at least creatively, in a state of arrested development here. ... Still, when High Off Life succeeds, it does so extraordinarily.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    græ
    græ finds him trying to be, well, everything, and through a convergence of folk, jazz, classical, and art-rock, along with his probing lyricism, Sumney has managed to produce a sonic marvel.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Good Souls Better Angels
    Most fully realized work in more than 20 years. [May 2020, p.101]
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Blame It on Baby
    For the most part, Blame it on Baby is classic DaBaby. Minimal bass stabs and toybox plinks and whirrs accent joyful sh–t talking. Songs generally clock in under three minutes. Songs generally clock in under three minutes. He sounds like he’s having a lot of fun, which is all the album needs to be. But as the industry dictates, doing one thing well enough to get popular is not enough to stay popular, so there are also songs on here that paint him as lovelorn and heartbroken. It’s not a great fit.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fetch, which blossoms more and more with each listen, feels giddy too; high on romance and rhythm and the surreal gift of being alive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The New Abnormal
    Abnormal offers something even better, possibly, than reckless youth: rock stars finally old enough to truly miss those good old days — and wise enough now, too, to give us the soundtrack these strange new times deserve.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Southside
    Southside is, for most of its 12 songs, a showcase for Hunt's affable charm and playlist-era approach to making music.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Future Nostalgia
    Lipa quickly established herself as one of pop's most compelling presences during her quick rise, and Future Nostalgia shows that she's going to be sticking around its upper echelons for a while.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Gigaton
    It's a sturdy rock album from five guys who know what they're doing, took time till they had something to say, are interpolating new influences, and sound stoked to be back together in a room. Die-hard fans will be pleased, and more casual fans will be pleasantly surprised.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    After Hours
    Perhaps his biggest sonic leap yet as well as his strongest and most consistent work to date. There's a cohesion to these 14 tracks that was absent from Tesfaye's last several releases, a real sense that he's closer than ever to striking the perfect balance between the darkly shaded aesthetic he broke out with and the naked pop ambitions of his more recent material.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    A Written Testimony
    A Written Testimony is an accomplished album with decent rewind factor, but it feels somewhat hampered by the seismic impact of the rapper's work a decade ago. That it doesn’t have forceful songs like “Exhibit C,” “Dear Moleskine,” or “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace” could draw naysayers, even if it picks up where Jay Elec left off. It exists nonetheless, and that’s a righteous step forward.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Heavy Light
    A rush of indelible non sequiturs - vibraphone solos, ripsaws - gives it all an unexpectedly thrilling buzz. [Mar 2020, p.99]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Mar 2, 2020
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Man Alive!
    There's something enveloping about his dense, churning compositions, like falling into a sonic cement mixer. [Mar 2020, p.99]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Feb 26, 2020
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Nightfall
    Nightfall finds Little Big Town in prime form, using harmonizing and honesty to get themselves through the high times and the low moments.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Father of All…
    A derivative party foul, a spirited genre game that plays like a copy of a copy. [Feb 2020, p.104]
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Music To Be Murdered By
    As a whole, Music to Be Murdered By is as hit-and-miss as anything Eminem has released this side of the millennium. But remove the skits, the relationship songs, the family songs, the morose gun control song, and the quirky Ed Sheeran club goof and you still have 36 solid minutes of the daffy, one-of-a-kind rap genius that keeps captivating true-school heads and longtime fans. Or, if you’d like, keep it all and you still have the most solid work he’s done in a few years.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Manic
    Over 16 tracks, Manic is a chaotic amalgamation of self-analysis, rage, depression, ecstasy, and growth that sees its creator managing the messiness of fame while trying to stay true to herself. We’re just along for the ride.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Rare
    A varsity-squad production team, including various Max Martin-affiliated Swedes and the ace songwriting duo of Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, bring their considerable contributions — though their job, of course, is to make Gomez sound like nothing less than her own woman: a girl interrupted but now returned, in Rare form.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Everyday Life
    While Everyday Life is bursting with thoughts on modern life, it also has the big-tent pop moments that made Coldplay one of the 21st century’s most reliable arena acts. ... Catchy, curveball-filled record.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Fear Inoculum
    Granted, it’s a bit of a slog: six of Fear Inoculum‘s 10 tracks spiral past the 10-minute mark. However, these tunes don’t resemble multi-part, Yes-style “prog epics” as much as rock songs stretched into the longform vistas of post-rock, psychedelia, experimental music, minimalism, and jazz.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Norman Fucking Rockwell!
    Over its 14 tracks, Rockwell keeps its midtempo mood steady, whether Del Rey’s characters are rushing down low-lit California highways or hiding out in anonymous Valley suburbs. The songs tend to flow into each other, although Antonoff and Del Rey’s partnership does result in some lovely musical moments.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Let Love
    Important sentiments may abound here, but they're missing a solid follow-through. [Sep 2019, p.101]
    • Entertainment Weekly
      • Posted Aug 27, 2019
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Iconology [EP]
    That Iconology wound up being a five-song EP, with two of those tracks having the same bones, was a bit of a letdown. But the material is still strong, with Elliott showing how she can flip and reverse even the most tired pop tropes.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Lover
    Lover is the latest proof that keeping tabs on her journey still yields its own fascinating rewards.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    I, I
    i,i, feels as confident as anything he’s ever done: a dense, richly layered showcase for his continued aversion to the standard rules of grammar and the deepening of his defiantly uncommercial sound.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    1123
    A few times, 1123 is too stuck in its own sensibilities for its own good — the inspirational, album-closing “Reach” is not much more heartening than any inspirational track you’ve heard over the past five years — but if BJ insists on staying within the margins, at least the borders are neatly kept
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    The Big Day
    A master lyricist, a musical omnivore, Chance and his family of producers and instrumentalists channel all the big emotions of the big day in a swirl of bliss, marital and otherwise.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Lion King: The Gift
    The Gift leans on variety to express its love of blackness, yet a singular voice proves just as affecting.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Late Night Feelings
    Feelings all goes down easily, but Ronson’s own creative DNA remains a mystery. This isn’t his manifesto; it’s a mixtape.
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