Her lyrics are self-assured and bold as ever but also strikingly personal, revealing self-doubt and frustration alongside bravado and a healthy dose of swagger, resulting in one of the best pop albums of 2022. - Jeremy Monroe9. The Smile...
Best K-Pop Albums So Far Design by Lyanne Natividad 2024 has been a year of exciting versatility in the K-pop scene. From highly anticipated albums by BTS’ RM, TWICE, and ATEEZ, which propelled K-pop to the upper echelons of the Billboard 200, to projects by several emerging and...
The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums Drift off with Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Grouper, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more By PitchforkApril 16, 2018 Graphic by Martine Ehrhart With many of the lists we’ve assembled over the past few years, the parameters have been clear. To be con...
While much has been made over the advent of queer pop music — and for good reason, looking at year-dominating artists like Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish — not enough has been made about the advances of queer artists in non-pop spaces. Across genres including rap, R&B, folk, rock, ...
In 2022, music reached the point where more than 100,000 new songs were being uploaded to DSPs every day, and while no one broke out how many albums that adds up to, suffice it to say that no one is coming close to keeping up with all the records that get critical love in a ...
Coined in the late 1980s to describe the slow, jazzy psychedelia by the British duo A.R. Kane, the term “dream pop” soon came to describe a genre of its own. Coalescing first around the trendsetting London label 4AD, the new sound discovered whole musi
2022.Nothing else sounds like Jockstrap, and I LoveYou Jennifer B is abstract pop music at its veryfinest. With inspiration coming from everythingfrom Cilla Black to Nine Inch Nails, I Love You Jennifer B is by far one of the mostunpredictable albums of the year, with twists and turns ...
If1999was about the grind,2000thematically touches on living the dream, and this is elegantly emphasized by Statik Selektah’s ‘dreamy’ production. This is not only one of the best-produced hip-hop albums this year, but we’ve been treated to a lot of WOW moments thanks to Joey’s inc...
Dr. J’s Best Albums of 2022 (in alphabetical order) Beach House: “Once Twice Melody”– Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally’s new double CD builds on the lush dream pop of their previous seven albums, and its 18 songs are presented in four chapters. Legrand’s hazy vocals and keyboards...
Elsewhere on this site, you can find a list of what we think are the best Hip Hop albums of 2022. This Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2022 – The Honorable Mentions list is a selection of Hip Hop albums released in 2022 that (in some cases just barely) missed the cut. All kinds of Hip ...