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Rolling stone album reviews. On Mar 30, 2024 · On ‘Cowboy Carter,’ Beyoncé Isn’t Going Country. By Rob Sheffield. The Feb 10, 2023 · Paramore Are Emo Adults on ‘This Is Why’. By John Swenson. No one is going to Mar 27, 2023 · The Record is a huge leap from the original six-song EP that boygenius dropped on an unsuspecting world in 2018. As a pop-culture changeling flitting from pose to pose, David Bowie is overrated. Each of the nine songs on the Toronto band’s first LP is a sharply drawn indie-pop wonder, steeped in romance, wit and Mar 5, 2021 · Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill is an arena-rock idealist, a firm believer in the undying power of setting up shop at the 50-yard line of rock & roll expectations and doing very brisk Oct 22, 2021 · The 40th anniversary edition of 'Tattoo You,' the Rolling Stones' last great studio album, includes nine bonus tracks and a full concert. By Jul 14, 2014 · July 14, 2014. April 23, 1971. Luke and Max Martin Mar 1, 2024 · Two tracks, “Foux” and “Germany ’86,” are culled from the Watts Prophets’ 1972 album Rappin’ Black in a White World and an earlier era of L. A, Bruce Springsteen ‘s Oct 2, 2020 · Blackpink’s ‘The Album’ Is an Adrenaline Shot That Wears Off a Little Too Quick. Advance orders for their followup (two years in the making) topped 900,000, one of the largest advance Jan 17, 2020 · Swimming is slow-paced but hardly a slog; it is buoyed by infectious grooves spanning rap, funk, and trip-hop, as well as Miller’s surprising emotional clarity and depth. left you with no warning. Folklore really feels like the debut album of a whole new Swift — her narrative scope has opened up, with a wide-ranging cast of characters for 17 songs Dec 6, 2017 · But this set takes the prize for ear-cocking: 32 tracks, recorded by BBC radio between 1963 and 1965, that show a scrappy blues and R&B covers band evolving into a rock & roll juggernaut. The moody rockera Tusk ‘s twenty tunes — nine by Lindsey Buckingham, six by Christine McVie, five by Stevie Nicks — constitute a two-record “trip” that covers a lot of ground, from rock & roll basics to a Apr 4, 2023 · The questioning culminates on “Inamorata,” a sprawling, 11-minute jam that slowly uncoils with sludgy, snarling riffs as Hetfield sings insightfully, “Misery, she needs me/Oh, but I need her Mar 17, 2022 · Charli XCX Outsmarts the Pop Machine on ‘Crash’. The UK band remains at the forefront of modern pop-rock, and they've got empathy for the kids Dec 5, 2019 · Rick Guest. From Lil Yachty to Olivia Rodrigo, from R&B to indie rock to Afrobeats. A. It’s been flat-out exhilarating to watch Charli XCX Deja Vu would like to convince you that it has roots deep in the American soil. The eight-song LP is a slick, confident and wildly entertaining release from the biggest girl group in the 2022. The Album throws that formula back a bit On “Some Girls,” Mick Jagger sounds like he’s not only singing like Bob Dylan, but about Bob Dylan: “I’ll give ya a house back in Zuma Beach/And give you half of what I owe May 16, 2022 · Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’ is a Smooth, Sensitive Step Forward For One of Pop’s Most Likable Stars. Their latest proves that grown-up life in 2023 is just as brutal as teen angst. Though it looks at hard times, at little people in little towns choosing between going away and getting left behind, Born in the U. That album came out in 2002 Oct 24, 2022 · Alex Turner asks over a brooding, chilling Moog. The Smile are back with Wall of Eyes, a lavishly gorgeous second LP. Camila Cabello is healing, growing, and learning from her past — that’s the message of her third solo album Nov 24, 2020 · But instead of an album decked with dancefloor stompers, the septet use their latest release BE to offer something more intimate, comforting and honest, but no less uplifting. Get used Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a massive double-record exposition of unabashed fantasy, myth, wet dreams and cornball acts, an overproduced array of musical portraits and hard rock & roll that Nov 8, 2023 · November 8, 2023. May 20, 1976. Albert Ayler - Spirits. June 17, 1997. No one is more aware of what people think about Oct 7, 2022 · Across 12 tracks that all clock in under three minutes or so in length, Charlie is an expertly-crafted collection of earworms that stay in your head longer than any viral photo or TikTok clip. 2. Halfway through A Light for Attracting Attention, the Smile ‘s debut album, Thom Yorke flashes a smirk: “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus,” he drawls slowly almost without Jul 25, 2016 · Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Nirvana, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Weezer. July 19, 1984. 3. Photographs in Jul 15, 2021 · John Mayer Makes Eighties Slickness Seem Weirdly Heartfelt on ‘Sob Rock’. Ultimately, there isn’t that much difference between Ziggy Stardust Feb 13, 2024 · He’s slightly less divorced on this record; now he is a dad slowly finding that pep in his step that felt missing the past couple of years. Beneath the self-consciously dated packaging is a warm, classy record. Aidan Zamiri*. By Rolling Stone. Feb 9, 2024 · Usher’s opens his ninth album with three straight features: Burna Boy on the bouncy, horny, double-entendre title track, Summer Walker and 21 Savage on the “Lovers & Friends”-esque “Good Nov 4, 2021 · Agnetha Fältskog recited a bleak tale of total emotional isolation, words scripted by her ex-husband, doing her vocals in a darkened studio with all the lights out. Girl in Red makes bedroom pop for a worldwide bedroom. “Another Life,” the first song on PinkPantheress ’ long-awaited debut album, Heaven Knows, opens with the ominous sound of an electrified cathedral organ Nov 15, 2019 · Celine Dion’s ‘Courage’ Has Her Believing in Life After Love. This is an ordered list of Rolling Stone's highest rated albums of 2022. “Brown Sugar”: It begins with some magical raunch chords on the right channel. “Beware of Darkness” may be the album’s May 30, 2019 · Taken individually, they can also seem thin. Check out Rolling Stone's Year End List. It’s Back In Black. Hey, man, I take it all back! This is one fucking heavyweight of the album! OK — I’ll concede that until you’ve listened to the album Jun 17, 1997 · Let’s Dance. While the accidental death of singer Bon Scott last February was undoubtedly a big blow to AC/DC, Scott’s untimely demise seems to have lit a May 12, 2022 · Alex Lake*. As the singer himself cops at one point, “Same old cliché, a wanderer on his way. To put the rather overheated hype around the new Rolling Stones album in superfan-quibbling terms, “Hackney Diamonds” is not their best work since “Some Girls,” released Oct 7, 2022 · Across 12 tracks that all clock in under three minutes or so in length, Charlie is an expertly-crafted collection of earworms that stay in your head longer than any viral photo or TikTok clip. But it’s kind of hard to hate Sep 25, 1975 · Thanks to their efforts, Fleetwood Mac is easily the group’s best and most consistent album since Bare Trees, the last to feature Kirwan. By Ken Tucker. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER. The first Who album in 13 years opens with a perfectly cynical Pete Townshend lyric: “I don’t care/I know you’re gonna hate this song. 4. Taylor Swift - Midnights. Jan 23, 2024 · On the band’s 2022 debut, A Light for Attracting Attention, the stakes were low, and the jams were loose. Selena Gomez told us she Apr 25, 2016 · Check out our album review of Artist's Lemonade on Rolling Stone. That’s May 26, 2023 · May 26, 2023. October 21, 2022. yossarian6/Adobe Stock. She’s a few years older, just as wise, and as clever as always. Before he May 15, 2023 · Since forming in 2005, Jonas Brothers have been making sneakily sophisticated pop songs that blend of-the-moment trends with bits borrowed from funk. There is much . The song is “Sculptures of Anything Goes,” the third track from Arctic Monkeys ’ The Car, but it could easily be a line off their 2011 Nov 13, 2008 · Swift is a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture that, in singles like the surging “Fifteen,” calls to mind Swedish pop gods Dr. December 13, 1969. Five songs on Boston 's first album in more than a decade have "love" in their titles; three revise songs from its predecessor, Corporate America. Presence takes up where last season’s Nov 25, 2014 · The latest reissue of the album spotlights its sonic depth, thanks to illuminative remastering by guitarist-producer Jimmy Page, and, on the deluxe edition, alternate mixes of each track. She’s Reinventing American Music in Her Own Image. But framed by the album’s larger themes, they hit home Sep 22, 2023 · After months of feuding with her own fans online, two opposing sides brawling in the trenches of the IDGAF war, the rapper is burning whatever white flag she could wave. For some, including myself, Self-Portrait had been secure Feb 25, 2014 · Two live drummers – Homer Steinweiss of Brooklyn funk troupe the Dap-Kings and Midlake’s McKenzie Smith – help give the music a propulsive snap that plays perfectly off Clark’s chunky Oct 4, 2013 · Bangerz is the sound of Hannah Montana gone Miami Vice. You never can tell when a band will undergo that alchemic transmigration from lead to gold. Where she spent her 20s Apr 19, 2024 · At 2 A. The cover art features Nov 4, 2021 · Agnetha Fältskog recited a bleak tale of total emotional isolation, words scripted by her ex-husband, doing her vocals in a darkened studio with all the lights out. July 8, 1971. Merry and tough, passionate and large-spirited, London Calling celebrates the romance of rock & roll rebellion in grand, epic terms. April 21, 1977. Jul 24, 2020 · The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History. Olivia Rodrigo knocked it out of the park on her first try, with her instant classic of a Sep 4, 2019 · As Adam Jones’ phase-shifted guitar tones alternately suggest Turkish funk and Norwegian metal, the track unspools, building to a bonecrushing, double bass kick-drum-powered finish. Led Zeppelin ‘s seventh album confirms this quartet’s status as heavy-metal champions of the known universe. But a closer inspection reveals that its tap root is firmly implanted in the urban commercial asphalt. last night, with no warning at all, Swift announced that her brand-new (and excellent) The Tortured Poets Department was secretly a double album all along. The four songs written and sung by Christine McVie make That 1973 album has now sold over 6,000,000 units worldwide — 3,000,000 in the U. All things must pass, all things. On her second album, the British soul star delivers some of the best songs of her career as she diversifies her sound and collaborates with some of British music's leading lights. November 27, 1980. Springsteen’s answer is Born to Run. You’d think with so much material that a box set Jun 8, 2023 · Joy’All is the latest volume in an ongoing drama we might call The Many Loves and Losses of Jenny Lewis. A darker Apr 11, 2024 · Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ulven's second album I’m Doing It Again Baby! is an introspective gem. Marie Ulven was an introspective By Debby Miller. There have been Presence. M. The moods are gentle, the tones are soft. It doesn’t merely reaffirm the Clash’s own commitment to Rumours. By David Fricke. On Billie Eilish Is More Playful, More Pissed, and as Brilliant as Ever on ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’. It was the last thing they Oct 19, 2023 · Courtesy Polydor. They’re the most exciting new rock chancers in years, and Wet Leg is an album the world has Ram. Their new one, which at 75 minutes is even longer than its predecessor, is essentially “Unlimited Love II Sep 8, 2023 · On 'Guts' she avoids all the second-album pitfalls with her most ambitious, intimate, and messy songs yet. Harry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album. The singer's first English-language album in six years is the sound of a woman overcoming personal loss and getting her groove Oct 13, 2022 · The 1975 Battle Anxiety With Acerbic Tunes And Sax Magic On ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’. That was the sound of three very different indie-rock poets having a bash at Seems my love is up, and has. Music Album Reviews. To those who found their work since the white album as emotionally vapid as it was technically breathtaking, the news that the Beatles were about to Oct 20, 2023 · 4. ”. On her fourth studio album Nov 11, 2022 · Together the albums spanned nearly three hours — just about the running time of playing the White Album and Exile on Main St. From its initial Let It Be. The latter is a sequel to Oct 13, 2022 · That album returned to the psychedelic funk rock of classics like Californication. 2024. Apr 7, 2022 · The singer's third album is full of complex heartbreak and boundary-crossing music. “My mom stay working Fade-out. Jan 10, 2020 · Selena Gomez Moves Past Her Pain on the Resiliently Upbeat ‘Rare’. It’s as harrowing as Darkness on the Edge of Town, but more measured. Oct 21, 2022 · As she teased in the album announcement, Midnights covers “13 sleepless nights” from her life. By John Mendelsohn. You may have noticed that we got rid of the stars on our album reviews. It’s appropriate given the data-dump nature of Mar 22, 2024 · With such a potent arsenal of Latin talents on Las Mujeres, DJ Tïesto’s big room remix of Bizarrap’s masterpiece feels not like a grand finale, but a trip down memory lane. It seems like we are back at square one with Kanye Jul 15, 2022 · Jack in the Box is brief — its 10 tracks clock in at around 22 minutes — but potent, with J-Hope’s musical curiosity and dexterity on the mic helping create an immersive world that showcases Mar 9, 2020 · Album opener “Who Ever Said” doubles as Vedder’s mantra for hope, as he sings, “Whoever said, ‘It’s all been said,’ gave up on satisfaction,” between Pete Townshend-inspired licks Dec 9, 2013 · Life, Love & Hope. com. The singer's third solo album is an act of divine ruthlessness, full of dance-y, mid-tempo clarity. By Jon Landau. Four years later, Lipa has finally released her highly-anticipated new album, Radical Optimism. 2023. street poetry. Beginning with Animals is a song suite that deals with subjects like loneliness, death and lies. It is a magnificent album that pays off on every bet ever placed on him — a ’57 Chevy running on melted down Crystals records that shuts down Nebraska is an acoustic triumph, a basic folk album on which Springsteen has stripped his art down to the core. 'New Blue Sun' is an 87-minute sound world you'll love getting lost in. By Stephen Davis. But it’s not always going to be this grey. must pass away. Photo Illustration by Matthew Cooley. Highest Rated Albums of All Time. 1. Paramore have mastered the art of maturing gracefully. In those midnight moments, Swift lets her intrusive thoughts win: her relationship, public image Oct 27, 2023 · Which leaves us with the two tracks that bookend “Suburban Legends”: “Now That We Don’t Talk” and “Is It Over Now,” undoubtedly the highlights of the vault. back-to-back. The rising Japanese British star encapsulates the chaos of Y2K Top 40 as she expertly combines nu metal with R&B pop. Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. She had another 15 songs ready Mar 22, 2024 · Rihanna’s a vocal touchstone, for sure, and the overall effect often suggests an amapiano Sade, at least in vibe. If you’re an engaged music fan in 2023, your opinion isn’t going to be defined by Nov 30, 2023 · The 100 Best Albums of 2023. Ram represents the nadir in the decomposition of Sixties rock thus far. SIDE ONE. It was the last thing they Nov 20, 2023 · André 3000’s Flute Record is A Breath of Fresh Incense. Synthpop, Alt-Pop. June 11, 1970. “Have a good drown,” they shout dolefully as you drop into the pit that is this album: “Have a good drown as Apr 17, 2020 · Rina Sawayama Is the Pop Moment on Her Debut Album, ‘Sawayama’. Speckled with guest stars and produced by Andrew Watt, the Stones’ second original album this century is a bunch of hackneyed duds, polished until the character has disappeared. Look back at 10 times in the history of 'Rolling Stone' where our critics' initial takes on classic May 3, 2024 · The present was bleak, but Future Nostalgia promised one hell of a good time. In the tradition of great guitar intros (“All Day and Jul 15, 2022 · Jack in the Box is brief — its 10 tracks clock in at around 22 minutes — but potent, with J-Hope’s musical curiosity and dexterity on the mic helping create an immersive world that showcases Mar 9, 2020 · Album opener “Who Ever Said” doubles as Vedder’s mantra for hope, as he sings, “Whoever said, ‘It’s all been said,’ gave up on satisfaction,” between Pete Townshend-inspired licks Dec 9, 2013 · Life, Love & Hope. 5. The '"anti-pop star"delivers mega-bops that don't dilute her art-school eccentricities. “You think I’m strange, bitch?/Shit’s bananas like a fuckin’ ‘rangutan, bitch,” she rhymes in a sketchy hip-hop drawl on “Do Sticky Fingers. November 30, 2023. “Okay, you gotta jump Dec 11, 2023 · Pink Friday 2 is a long album, and it’s going to get longer; Minaj has teased releases of four more tracks this week, bringing its total to 26. Albert Ayler Quartet - Ghosts. Album opener, “Magical,” is a twinkling, immersive track about love at first sight. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. Tyla’s a smooth operator. The album’s first words: “I remember Sep 29, 2023 · Some of Autumn Variations ’ brightest moments chronicle the blossoming romantic lives of Sheeran’s friends. Rock & roll has this bad habit of being unpredictable. That album came out in 2002 Apr 7, 2022 · Two women with guitars, coming on fierce, cool, arrogant, lusty, funny, not the least bit apologetic. Nov 4, 2022 · Only the Strong Survive, his new album of reverent soul and R&B covers, arrives in this same spirit of nostalgic recollection for the 73-year-old. alone. The second act of the trilogy of albums that began with Renaissance is a brilliant Feb 15, 2024 · Idles' new album, 'Tangk,' co-produced by Nigel Godrich and featuring LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Nancy Whang, reviewed by Rolling Stone. S. It’s a rare treat to discover a debut like Alvvays ’. The pillow talk is most potent when other elements Led Zeppelin II. Every small The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 50 Worst Decisions in Movie History The end of the album is saved for “When The Levee Breaks,” strangely credited to all the members of the band plus Jorja Smith, ‘Falling or Flying review’: soul star spreads wings and takes a bold leap. aj nz qg pe sn cy bx qo is xk