Chance the Rapper’s latest brims with gospel messages … and a few other rap trappings we have to address as …
Meghan Trainor doubles down on her message of self-love and self-acceptance.
Drake’s just as mopey and melancholy as always on Views, which ricochets between perceptive insights and soul-deadening hedonism.
Beyoncé delivers a shockingly raw—and shockingly redemptive—depiction of one woman’s bruising experience with her husband’s infidelity.
What is the measure of a woman’s worth? Is it love? Sex? Money? Success? On any song on Fifth Harmony’s …
The sophomore effort from this rising Christian rapper grapples with gritty authenticity as NF tries to make sense of the …
The “Ho Hey” band delivers spare, pain-laced reflections on missed opportunities and the final separation of death.
Leering lust or lasting love? We don’t have to listen long to One Direction alum Zayn’s solo debut to know …
If it feels so right, it can’t be wrong, Gwen Stefani gushes.
Killswitch Engage still shouts out some encouragement. But more than a few tracks suggest a repudiation, or at least dilution, …
Dizzying mixture of cultural, racial and spiritual insights jarringly juxtaposed against prurient portraits of unexpurgated rage, violence and sexuality.
The second effort from Seattle rapper Macklemore is, indeed, provocatively messy—in both good and grating ways.
The sophomore album from this rising British alt-pop band is as brutally honest as it is brutally hopeless.
The profound and the profane pound away at each other on The Life of Pablo.
The latest effort from Australia’s most famous wig-wearer zigzags maddeningly between self-respect and self-objectification.