Yachty is our master of joy. His debut album is well-polished and full of pop-rap confections, but his polarizing style hardly captures the nuance suggested by the album’s cover and title.
The new album from electronic artist Phil Tortoroli earns the optimism of its title. There are dark themes, but his music is brighter than ever, cut with Maya Angelou and James Baldwin samples.
This groundbreaking and newly-reissued 1972 album is an excellent introduction to Mulatu Astatke, the inventor and sole exemplar of Ethio-jazz.
Drummer John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) taps Laurie Anderson, Yo La Tengo, and more for the group’s most accessible album yet—confounding melody and rhythm into something clear and grandiose.
The best and the rest from Queen RiRi
The indie-rock vets talk about streaming music’s stimulus overload, the radio’s disappointing lack of cool, weird guitar music, and their new record.
The folk singer enlists an elite, dynamic group of players for an album deconstructed from a master jam session, naturally creating his most jazz-forward release to date.
Dreamcar is a new supergroup featuring three-quarters of No Doubt with AFI frontman Davey Havok. This eponymous debut is a testament to the new wave crushes of their youth.
This short EP is the proper solo debut from XL Recordings boss Richard Russell. Like all of his work, though, Russell is in the background, more an orchestrator than a frontman.