With a keen awareness of what lies on both ends of the spectrum of human kindness and cruelty, 2024’s best music documented ...
Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES, liberates herself from preconceptions on a punchy debut ...
Blood Incantation’s artistic peak thus far, the album is composed of two multi-movement epics. Each is best heard as a whole, letting the tapestry of riffs sink in and transport the listener into the ...
A springtime gauntlet of weekly album drops by the industry's biggest stars was regularly interrupted by wildly inventive newcomers arriving out of nowhere, underground favorites reaching new ...
Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of ...
Think of all the drugs you haven’t tried yet. Your life has only just begun. Such is the spirit of Brat, an album that argues that messy, melodramatic existentialism is inevitable, but so is the ...
The album’s best and most dexterous track, “oHio,” features a guest verse from Freddie Gibbs, and an incredible opening couplet: “I’ma stack my O’s like Ohio / Lookin’ at your life ...
NPR put up their list of the 50 Best Albums of 2024, and as always, it has one of the widest ranges of all the major music publications’ lists. As they mention in the intro, only one already ...
We kept our ears open all year. Here's the result of that listening: our picks for the best albums of 2024. Fifty albums to give you something to hold onto when things get overwhelming ...
What is the best metal album of each year since 1970? Come find out! We've sifted through the best of the best from over half a century of metal, enjoying fierce debates along the way while making ...
Plenty of the challengers did.) Sometimes the sheer amount of great albums out each week could feel disorienting — June 7 was quite a day — but the abundance, looking back, is clearly a gift. We kept ...