Review
He already won the war. Now Kendrick Lamar flips the bird in the rearview
On the Pulitzer-winning rapper’s surprise new album GNX, Drake doesn’t even rate a mention.
- by Nick Buckley
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Amyl and the Sniffers are back with fighting words and fist-pumping energy
New album Cartoon Darkness starts with a vicious smackdown of critics – and things only get better from there.
- by Michael Dwyer
Amyl and the Sniffers release uncensored version of nude music video
The Australian punk rock band’s music video has been lauded as powerful by body positivity advocates.
- by Angus Delaney
Lara Trump’s new Hero song met with derision
Here’s an artist whose music Donald Trump may be able to use in his rallies after several big names forbade the use of their tracks.
- by Tony Diver
Derivative and dated, Katy Perry’s new album is worse than we feared
In distancing herself from the doe-eyed goofball of her Teenage Dream days, 143 is a colossal misstep from which Perry’s career may never recover.
- by Robert Moran and Annabel Ross
The new album from this superstar is pop at its most fun, fizzy and sex-forward
On Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter leans all the way into her bawdy brand of frothy pop.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
The ghosts haunting Nick Cave’s biblical new album
On their 18th album together, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds go searching for the light.
- by John Shand, Robert Moran and Barry Divola
Katy Perry is back with a ‘feminist’ anthem. It’s a train wreck
Katy Perry’s much-anticipated new single begins with the lyrics “sexy, confident, so intelligent”. Unfortunately, it is none of those things.
- by Meg Watson
I was never supposed to hear this album. It changed how I think about art
In 2015, Wu-Tang Clan released a single-copy album. This year, a handful of listening parties meant the public could hear it for the first time.
- by Elizabeth Flux
This documentary is the most revealing exploration of a musician’s art you’ll ever see
Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney was given one instruction by Paul Simon: “The music has to sound good.”
- by Tom Ryan
Charli XCX’s late-night masterpiece Brat is her best album yet
Texturally brash and genuinely affecting, the pop iconoclast’s new album is a must-hear.
- by Jules LeFevre
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