Julien Baker & Torres
Send A Prayer My Way
In general, the album lacks defiant stories with cultural counter-punches. And aside from a few exceptions, Prayer lacks the riffs and big choruses needed for dependable airplay
Northern Transmissions
Julien Baker & Torres
Send A Prayer My Way
The result is as brilliant a record you could hope for from two of the current generation’s finest songwriters
The Line Of Best Fit
Julien Baker & Torres
Send A Prayer My Way
Confidently playing to the strengths of its creators, this collaborative work is built on undeniable chemistry
musicOMH
Julien Baker & Torres
Send A Prayer My Way
On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on
Slant Magazine
Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
Bon Iver’s fifth studio LP SABLE, fABLE shifts from the stark beauty of the original EP to include uplifting sounds that are as enjoyable as they are personal
PopMatters
Momma
Welcome To My Blue Sky
The Brooklyn alt-rock band rides a wave of guitar fuzz through songs about love, longing, and surviving your early 20s. It’s intimate without ever revealing too much
Pitchfork
Will Smith
Based On A True Story
The star’s first album in two decades is a pointless apology tour for the dumbest Oscar gaffe in history, treating his Chris Rock slap as a grand teachable moment. It’s as corny as it is calculating
Pitchfork
Ok Go
And The Adjacent Possible
Features some of the best songs of OK Go’s discography
Spill Magazine
Bon Iver
SABLE, fABLE
Regardless of whether or not you prefer to commiserate with the sadness found on his past records, it’s clear that SABLE, fABLE could have only emerged from a place of hard-earned inner peace
Beats Per Minute
Valerie June
Owls, Omens, and Oracles
Her most gently ambitious and dazzlingly diverse album to date. Print edition only
Uncut
Valerie June
Owls, Omens, and Oracles
The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling
The Guardian
Valerie June
Owls, Omens, and Oracles
Indoctrinated in this album and June’s voice is the reverent nature of the far reaching truth that flows and weaves through each of us in our shared collective humanity. Find yourself in the space between songs, rest in the melodies and discover the place in your body that is answering her call
Clash