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Kendrick Lamar
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Few storytellers, if any, are able to deliver a comment on society that is both as observative and introspective as Kendrick’s
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Harry Styles
Harry's House
The album sees Styles growing comfortable enough within the pop idiom that he inhabits to push against it—but only ever so slightly
Slant Magazine
Harry Styles
Harry's House
Harry’s House is a good album because it doesn’t care if you think so. It's not trying to appease the male critics chained to the altar of classic rock, and it isn’t showering you in glitter and hauling you onto the dance floor
The Line Of Best Fit
Harry Styles
Harry's House
Harry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album
Rolling Stone
Harry Styles
Harry's House
Styles coos canny – though perhaps not especially deep – lyrics over 70s guitar and 80s hooks on a mature third album where every song feels like a single
The Guardian
Harry Styles
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
Entertainment Weekly
Harry Styles
Harry's House
While with one hand he’s exploring vivid lyrical micro-vignettes, he’s still obfuscating with the other
DIY
Florence + The Machine
Dance Fever
A welcome shot of fairy-tale hedonism ripe for post-pandemic dancefloor indulgence
DIY
Kae Tempest
The Line Is A Curve
Every corner, every nook of Tempest’s reflections on their life’s prospective trajectory is a self-affirmation, not necessarily out of satisfaction, but out of trust that everyday life has more to offer than middling routine
Spectrum Culture
The Smile
A Light For Attracting Attention
Whether you’re chomping at the bit for a new Radiohead album, or simply want to listen to some wonderfully executed and experimental alternative rock, this is a record worthy of your time
Loud And Quiet
Kendrick Lamar
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
A record that reaches out halfway and asks you to do the rest of the work, and it’s deeply rewarding as a result
Loud And Quiet
Ibeyi
Spell 31
The French-Afro-Cuban sisters continue to use the strengths that they have displayed up until now to help them explore different forms of healing; their respect for historical traditions and languages, and their mash of modern hiphop with minimal Yoruba spirituality
God Is In The TV
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