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The Hudson Valley-based Half Waif tackles everyday dramas on her new album, Mythopoetics, one of the year’s finest.

On Moon Boy, Yung Bleu’s debut album, the crooner attempts to balance his dueling personas and ultimately presents a radio-ready project ripe with agenda.

“I wish I could tell myself / don’t do it for anyone else,” sings Nandi Rose Plunkett on “Party’s Over,” one of the many bittersweet tracks on her latest release, Mythopoetics. As Half Waif, Plunkett has been crafting strangely beautiful, buoyant, and sad music for years. With a knack for nimble electronic beats and thought-provoking […]

Most of us are guided, consciously or unconsciously, by our pasts. Confronting those patterns that we learned as kids takes a lot of bravery, and many people spend their whole lives running from those memories. But on Home Video, her latest and most ambitious album, Lucy Dacus takes a deep, fearless dive straight into the […]

Wolf Alice’s Blue Weekend, out last week, has soared to the top of the UK charts, ousting Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR from the top spot. This is the London-based band’s first number one album (their last two went to number two), and it cements the indie rockers as future megastars. Blue Weekend feels like a career-defining […]

Japanese Breakfast’s third album, Jubilee, breaks open with a bang. The first song, “Paprika,” is one of the artist’s biggest, brightest songs. It rolls in with a giant crescendo about 30 seconds in, and from there it rides on a buoyant, trumpet-laden beat that marks a stark contrast to the more meditative qualities of the […]

Here’s what to listen to this weekend.

Lil Baby and Durk’s lively bouts of lyricism are enmeshed between hollow flexes and a bloated track list.

The new track precedes Eilish’s upcoming sophomore record, “Happier Than Ever.”

Add these to your breakup playlist.