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Album Review: Cat Burns – How To Be Human

Mary Chiney·November 5, 2025

Cat Burns has always had a way of making the smallest feelings sound enormous. Her songs have never...

Mary Chiney·October 15, 2025

Khalid has always made music for twilight spaces — songs for drives when the world is winding down,...

Mary Chiney·October 2, 2025

Doja Cat has always been hard to pin down. Her rise was shaped by meme virality, sharp-tongued rap...

Carlo Thomas·July 22, 2025

Fifteen years ago, the Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Alex G was uploading albums to Bandcamp. A lot has happened since...

JT Early·March 10, 2025

There is something existential and ponderous in Canadian pop star Tate McRae naming her third album So Close...

Steve Forstneger·February 10, 2025

Inspired by a restaurant menu item, Jess Smyth’s Biig Piig tag became a retroactive nickname for the artist...

Lucas Martins·June 21, 2024

Normani’s solo debut has been long coming. In a way she is a veteran; her journey as part...

Lucas Martins·August 25, 2023

Victoria Monét’s impact on the current state of pop music is underappreciated. Not only was she instrumental in...

But Here We Are is a grief album. There’s no way of getting around that and, thankfully, the...

Larry McClain·March 29, 2023

One of the main tenets of songwriting is to write relatively low-energy verses that build into banger choruses....