Albums

A couple of years ago, Flea had an idea. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist was turning 60 and taking stock of what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. He made a deal with himself: During RHCP’s two-year-long stadium tour, he’d…

Thankfully, both Duff and Koma have moved on from the thumping theatrics of the mid-2010s. luck… is less Zedd and more Carly Rae Jepsen, another former Koma collaborator, whose bright, princess-y vocal tone resembles Duff’s. The album’s…

Mumford & Sons have achieved massive success, but they’re still desperate for respect. They’ve drawn from classic literature, sung with Bob Dylan, and reinvented their sound multiple times, and none of it seems to matter; as an old…

Geese – Getting KilledThe production is uniquely rhythmic and layered, the instrumental performances are all pretty bulletproof, and Cameron Winter’s writing is just ridiculously good. He is able to show us beauty and despair, and the…

Culture-shifting blockbusters, return-to-form statements, brilliant debuts, and more The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and…

It’s not hard to see why Springsteen saw these sessions as a failure. There is something slightly generic about the renditions of “Open All Night” and “Johnny 99,” songs I’ve always associated with desperate, sleep-deprived adrenaline.…

It still might be his most successful attempt—“Oblivion” sinks to an absolute nadir as Parker aimlessly spritzes his falsetto over a limp dembow rhythm that barely musters an ounce of what, say, DJ Python would do with it. He wastes the…

The best-of-2024 lists below no doubt would be somewhat different if events in early November had gone another way. It’s a reminder of how subjective and unfixed these evaluations inevitably are. Back in the summer, we…