It’s a testament to Trent Reznor’s songwriting skills that his sophomore album, an abrasive and harrowing concept album about self-destruction, became a multi-platinum hit.
Between M.I.A.’s international genre fusions, off-the-wall production, and politically charged lyrics, Arular is as bold as a debut album can be.
Classics Week 2021 kicks off with Things Fall Apart, the 1999 breakthrough in The Roots’ increasingly ambitious career, and a milestone for hip hop at large.
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Austen is the managing editor of theneedledrop and editor of the fantano channel. Here's her favorite music of the year!
For as stylistically cohesive and seamlessly flowing as We Will Always Love You is, it’s somehow a tale of two albums.
Taylor Swift tops off 2020 with another solid helping of indie folk—in case anyone thought folklore was a fluke.
The Chosen is Kid Cudi’s best solo project since the second Man on the Moon (and it may even have that one beat).
On their 2nd album this year, New Haven’s Them Airs create some of the most frantic and catchy art punk I’ve heard in 2020.
