Album Reviews
Brief Encounters: New Long Player Releases 1-14-22 – 1-20-22 Reviewed
finest sustained moments
US Top 10 Albums Tracking 1-7-22 – 1-13-22
Gunna: 150,300, Abel: 148,000: it amounts to a statistical error
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases 1-21-22 – 1-28-22
Fast Money, indeed
Brief Encounters Top New Recorded Releases 1-14-21 – 1-20-21
I bet Sub Pop were overjoyed as well
Elton John Songs Say So Much: A Personal Top Ten
When every little bit of hope is gone…
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 1-7-22 – 1-13-22 Reviewed
from beaten up on After Hours to death in progress on dawn fm -now that’s progress
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 1-7-22 – 1-13-22, The Weeknd’s “Dawn FM” Reviewed
it’s here, it is gonna be here the greater percent of the year and it is very, very good.
Aretha Franklin’s “Sweet Passion” Reviewed
excavates her sweet passion with consistency and pop power
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 12-24-21 – 1-6-22
signed a boatload of huge talents
US Top 10 Albums Dated January 8th, 2022
will get her seventh but not her eighth
Best Of 2021: Albums In Alphabetical Order By Artist Through The End Of The Year
Up And Down in 2021
Best Of 2021: Albums In Order Of Preference Through The Entire Year
Olivia and West share the top spot…
Bay City Rollers’ “Rollerworld: Live At The Budokan, Tokyo 1977” Reviewed
A waste of a huge opportunity…
US Top 10 Albums Dated January 1st, 2022
it will take a surprise drop to dislodge her in January 2022
PAUL WELLER’s “An Orchestrated Songbook (With Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra)” Reviewed
Every song on here; every nuance is a wonder
Frank Sinatra’s “Sinatra & Company” Reviewed
more subdued
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 12-17-21 – 12-23-21 Reviewed
memento from his 2014 US tour
The Early Bird: New Recorded Releases 12-17-21 – 12-23-21 Reviewed
feel free to hold your nose while you congratulate LadBaby
Aretha Franklin’s “Sparkle” Reviewed
reminds you why you are a soul fanatic in the first place
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 11-10-21 – 11-16-21 Reviewed
blend their voices on one strong cover after another
US Top 10 Albums Dated December 18th, 2021
30 still on top
Sneak Peaks: Upcoming Album Releases 12-17-21 – 12-23-21
The Compton rapper is a child of Atlanta trap
The Early Bird: Top New Recorded Release 12-10-21 – 12-16-21 Reviewed
a vivid and yet boring dream
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 12-10-21 – 12-16-21, Juice WRLD’s “Fighting Demons” Reviewed
a soundtrack to the horrors of teenagerhood where insecurity and anxiety has been increased through the isolation of the pandemic
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 12-3-21 – 12-9-21 Reviewed
makes sense of her pop skills
Best Of 2021: Albums In Order Of Preference Through November 30th
sweet soul music
US Top 10 Albums Dated December 11th, 2021
“All Night Parking” is so great it causes us to overestimate the album
Going Steady: New Singles 12-3-21 – 12-9-21 Reviewed
This ain’t rap music, this straight literature
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases 12-10-21 – 12-16-21
a smooth and cagey sound
The Early Bird: Top New Recorded Releases 12-3-21 – 12-9-21 Reviewed
SZA’s best since 2017
The Earliest Bird: Top Recorded Release For 12-3-21 – 12-9-21. Arca’s kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii, Reviewed
the state of pop art is somewhere in Arca’s sound
Brief Encounters: New Album Releases 11-26-21 – 12-2-21
an immaculate collection
US Top 10 Albums Dated December 4th, 2021
album sales comprise 692,000
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases 12-3-21 – 12-8-21
everything she has done this past two years has proven itself important
The Early Bird: New Recorded Releases 11-26-21 – 12-2-21 Reviewed
in New York City, in the snow, at Christmas time and on Broadway
Bay City Rollers “Breakout ’85” Reviewed
everything we refused to believe about the band is, in effect, true
Sam Huber’s “Up” Reviewed
disciplined genre moves
US Top 10 Albums Dated November 27th, 2021
fourth number one in 16 months
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases 11-26-21 – 12-2-21
distills the Philly sound to its essence
The Early Bird: Top New Recorded Releases 11-19-21 – 11-25-21 Reviewed
though pleasant enough is nothing special
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 11-19-21 – 11-25-21, Adele’s “30” Reviewed
apply to fanbase for sure
(Kan)Ye (West) Drops Donda Deluxe
the God here hovers from track to track where Ye is the son and Donda the holy ghost
Brief Encounters: New Albums 11-12-21 – 11-18-21 Reviewed
The snakey, quirky, bass hooking, beat pounding No Wave giants
US Top 10 Albums Dated November 20th, 2021
Summer’s exercise in misandry
The Postess with the Mostess double bubble toil and trouble Returns To The Pretenders
She’s blonde, she’s old and from all accounts she’s a raving bitch. #Goals.