Harry Styles
Sign of the Times
Pop, Rock

Harry Styles’ melancholy, apocalyptic solo debut sounds like something you’d expect from Imagine Dragons, not One Direction.

Mastodon
Emperor of Sand
Alternative, Metal, Rock

The latest effort from this Atlanta prog-metal band is a concept album grappling with the hard reality of death.

Portugal. The Man
Feel It Still
Alternative, Pop, Rock

The first big hit from this alternative band that’s not from Portugal proffers a fuzzily vague political perspective.

Ed Sheeran
÷
Pop, Rock

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

Ed Sheeran
Divide
Pop, Rock

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

Lana Del Rey
Love
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Alt-pop chanteuse Lana Del Rey’s latest is as earnest and wonder-filled as her last album was grim and nihilistic.

Linkin Park
Heavy
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Linkin Park is joined by Kiiara on this surprisingly subdued song about the struggle to relinquish anxiety.

Imagine Dragons
Believer
Alternative, Pop, Rock

Imagine Dragons roars back with an ambiguous song about the relationship between pain and belief.

The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, Rock

The Chainsmokers collaboration with Coldplay yields an intriguing song about our longings to be heroic … and our fears that …

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.

AFI
AFI (The Blood Album)
Alternative, Rock

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

Alice Merton
No Roots
Alternative, Rock

Having “No Roots” isn’t as difficult as it may seem.

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, …

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 …

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 …