“Robert Schumann only wrote one work for oboe – but that hasn’t stopped oboist Nicholas Daniel drawing together a gorgeous album of his music. Played with such warmth and eloquence, the arrangements chosen here often feel as if they were tailor-made for the instrument, while the sensitive ...
Enjoy our annual Top 40 Best Albums for 2022 and here’s to hoping 2023 will be a better year for each and every one of us.–Raymond Flotat 40. Lights – PEP Lights’ catchy, electropop album features the dreamy liveliness and gloominess of youth. PEP’s playful ode to love...
This marks the 20th timePastehas released a Best Albums of the Year list, and as always, it’s an opportunity for discovery. It’s a time to learn what albums we might have overlooked as our music writers—who’ve been digging through a wide spectrum of releases all year—vote for thei...
Over 100 music fans have voted on the 30+ albums on Best Rock Albums Of 2024. Current Top 3: From Zero, Prelude to Ecstasy, Only God Was Above Us
It’s difficult to describe the music that was produced for the full length of this band’s career, as it has been so varied. If you aren’t familiar with them, the best thing to do is sample a range of albums to get a feel for their sound(s). Their mass appeal put them on th...
Some years, the release of big-ticket albums is mostly a slow trickle to start. You get maybe one or two every month or so, and elsewhere on the calendar, you look to some up-and-comers, or long-underrated favorites, or you maybe even keep on playing catch up with the previous year...
But here’s what you’ve come for…The Louder Than War Top 100 Albums Of 2022! 100. Karen: Karen (Raving Pop Blast) Perfect, old-school indie guitar pop – from an English variation on the Modern Lovers perhaps. Whatever Karen is – it’s an overwhelming, life-affirming success and ju...
The best LGBTQ albums of 2022: Demi Lovato, Omar Apollo, MUNA and many more of the year's top albums from queer artists.
One major theme that runs through Pitchfork’s best albums of 2024 is disbelief. There are pop albums that defy all expectations, indie rock records that shouldn’t work but do, rap tapes that are made of everything but the raps, surprise debuts, stunning comebacks, and shocking finales. ...
For her debut solo album Asmik Grigorian has chosen a recital of Rachmaninov songs. One of the brightest young stars of the opera house shows that she is alsoan accomplished recitalist, pristine, athletic, strong, but also expressive in a far-ranging selection of songs, juxtaposed to create m...