And while at first blush its a shocking pairing the hard-rock stalwart and the dude who made Uptown Funk?
musically, its electric.
With addicting grooves and disco flourishes,Villainsis the desert-rock outifts finest work of the 2000s.
Matador Records
Madison Vain
24.
So for his third outing,Slowheart, he simply stopped trying so dang hard.
Instead, Moore took a few months off to travel and let the new music develop naturally.
Matador Records
13 heartland-rock tracks that make up the most thrilling set of his career.
Four Tet,New Energy
For nearly two decades, Kieran Hebden has constructed alluring, forward-thinking electronic music.
Eric Renner Brown
22.
MCA Nashville Records
Miguel,War & Leisure
Social decay has never sounded so sexy.
But there’s a deeper political undercurrent that makesWar & Leisurehis best work yet.
Yes, its the soul album shes wanted to make since she was a teenager.
Text Records
Nolan Feeney
20.
In 2017, the best example might’ve been Melina Duterte’s second album as Jay Som.
Father John Misty,Pure Comedy
How best to respond to the world’s fractured state of affairs?
ByStorm Entertainment / RCA Records
With an equally sprawling, overloaded album.
Jessie Ware,Glasshouse
16.
ButHNDRXXhelped Future make history he’s the first artist to ever notch back-to-back No.
Atlantic Records
1 debuts in successive weeks and it’s his most cohesive, consistent work yet.
(Can you say #iconic?)
Together, its anxious and miserable and absolutely wonderful.
Polyvinyl Record Co.
(Hes repeatedly denied the claims.)
And with raw, powerful vocals, rowdy guitars, and ultra-gooey hooks, what a victory that is.
’s dusty soul instrumentals.
Sub Pop
Kelela,Take Me Apart
Kelela doesn’t mince words when it comes to describing her musical aim.
Jens Lekman,Life Will See You Now
A new couple’s tender first fight.
The silent friendship between two men who don’t know how to open up to each other.
Atlantic Records
A guy who 3-D prints a model of his tumor… and gives it to a random waitress?
Chris Stapleton,From A Room: Vol.
- and the drunken lament Drunkards Prayer (Vol.
Island Records
2), for two epic LPs this year.
LCD Soundsystem,american dream
Even the best bands can age more like bad milk than cabernet.
Leah Greenblatt
5.
Epic/Sony Records
And when Willie Nelson joins for Learning to Lose, listeners cant help but feel a torch passing.
Not since Mary J. Blige’s 1994 opusMy Lifehas the genre witnessed such a complete picture of young womanhood.
Kendrick Lamar,DAMN.
Matador Records
and the divine (“GOD.
“), Lamar deploys his generational lyrical gift in a search for answers to 2017’s pervasive chaos.
Lorde,Melodrama
The joke was that listening to Lorde was supposed to make you feel old.
Shorefire Media
(That’s why her hair is so big it’s full of feelings!)
ROC Nation LLC
Captured Tracks/Royal Mountain Records
Warp Records Limited
Secretly Canadian
Universal Music LLC
Loma Vista Recordings
Def Jam Recordings
DFA Records/Columbia
Third Man Records
Loma Vista Recordings
Top Dawg Entertainment
Top Dawg Entertainment
Lava Records
