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Album Review: Tate McRae – So Close To What

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....

Steve Forstneger·November 17, 2022

By now her story is well known, but still bears repeating: Fousheé had been coming at the music...

Jasper WIllems·October 28, 2022

With her masterpiece Ctrl hitting the half-decade mark, SZA does have a habit of making us wait and...

Rob H·June 29, 2022

Steve Lacy recently dropped “Mercury” and said that his new album Gemini Rights was on the way –...

Rob H·April 1, 2022

Rae Morris has announced her long-awaited third album: it’s called Rachel@Fairyland and arrives on July 8 through RCA....