Contributor: Adam R. Holz

This game about a guy who cleans up murderers’ messes perhaps isn’t as messy as it could have been. But it’s hardly clean, either.

The second album from this band of three sisters focuses on breakups, breakups and still more breakups. Did I mention the breakups?

The Big Sick’s willingness to wade into the complexities of love and family make it surprisingly compelling. But this rom-com also wades into profanity and sexual innuendo, too.

Kesha trades hedonism and rebellion for forgiveness and prayer in her surprisingly substantive new single.

Romantic lyrics on Brett Eldredge’s fourth album make it easy to see why he’s been dubbed “country’s most eligible bachelor.”

Jay Z apologizes to his wife for his infidelity and sings the praises of family and fatherhood … using lots of profanity.

Imagine Dragons’ third effort plumbs the depths of depression but mostly manages to find a way through that emotional fog.

Fall Out Boy’s latest epitomizes the term “stadium anthem.” But is everything in this underdog tale worthy of a podium position?

Lorde’s second album finds her vacillating between rage and carnal excess in the wake of a painful breakup.

It’s never a good sign when an audience laughs repeatedly at the plight of two terror-stricken women trapped at the bottom of the ocean.

The Killers return with a boastful tune about a dude who thinks he’s all that. But is the band in on the joke?

Katy Perry says she wants to sing “purposeful pop” these days. Sometimes on Witness, she does. Other times, not so much.

Whether or not Rachel is victim or villainess, though, one thing’s pretty certain here: Wherever she goes, seduction, disarray and death sure seem to follow.

Megan Leavey is an inspiring story about two war heroes: a determined young woman and the dog she unexpectedly bonds with while serving in the Marines.

Justin Bieber handles vocal duties on this (mostly) romantic collaboration with French electronic music maestro David Guetta.