Ed Sheeran
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Pop, Rock

British superstar Ed Sheeran’s latest features a lot of sweetness and sentimentality … when he’s not doing shots and hooking …

Little Big Town
The Breaker
Country, Pop

Little Big Town’s eighth studio effort focuses more what it takes to be whole than it does being broken.

Brantley Gilbert
The Devil Don’t Sleep
Country

Brantley Gilbert’s fourth album preaches the importance of resisting the devil’s wily ways … when this country singer isn’t indulging …

AFI
AFI (The Blood Album)
Alternative, Rock

Two decades and 10 albums haven’t made this angst-ridden, alienation-fixated band any happier.

Starset
Vessels
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Metal, Rock

The second album from this sci-fi focused alt-rock band paints a cosmic picture of one man’s badly broken heart.

The xx
I See You
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno

The xx’s latest might very well stir up deep feelings, but it doesn’t offer much guidance for what to do …

J. Cole
4 Your Eyez Only
Rap/Hip-Hop

Rapper J. Cole’s fourth effort tells the profanity-riddled tale of a man desperately trying to break the cycle of crime …

Kane Brown
Kane Brown
Country

YouTube star Kane Brown has learned well from the country mentors he’s imitated. Which is both a good and a …

Metallica
Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
Metal, Rock

Metallica’s latest may not be quite as self-destructive as its title implies. But it’s not all puppy dogs and daisies, …

Bruno Mars
24K Magic
Pop, R&B

Bruno Mars hopes to hit gold with an increasingly retro R&B sound. But if his style has evolved, his one-track-mind …

Bon Jovi
This House Is Not for Sale
Rock

Thirty years after conquering the music world, Jon Bon Jovi and his band are somehow still topping the charts with …

Tove Lo
Lady Wood
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

The second album from this Swedish singer is long on the hedonistic pursuit of pleasure but short on finding joy …

Avenged Sevenfold
The Stage
Metal

Life and death, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation, spirituality and naturalism and … Neal deGrasse Tyson? It’s all on …

Lady Gaga
Joanne
Alternative, Folk, Pop, Rock

Lady Gaga is inching past hedonism for hedonism’s sake, trading her outrageous antics something more substantive … if still reckless …

Green Day
Revolution Radio
Punk, Rock

Revolution Radio isn’t perfect. But it represents a revolution for Green Day: It’s perhaps the most upbeat album these punk …