Soccer Mommy is the brainchild of 22-year-old Sophie Allison, who uses ’90s-styled indie alt-rock arrangements to communicate thoughts and feelings of someone twice her age. In the last few years she’s quickly gained popularity after releasing her last album, Clean, in 2018. It was home to many awesome tunes, including…

Dan Snaith, better known as Caribou, looked to distill his musical message following 2014’s critically acclaimed Our Love. That album looked at the concept of love at its most macro level. Going into the creation of his seventh studio effort, Suddenly, Snaith aimed to put that concept under a microscope. He looked…

A title like American Standard doesn’t hide what James Taylor has in mind this time around. Twenty albums into a storied career, it’s hard to think of a way he could further prove himself. With this album of standards, he acknowledges his career stage. Instead of attempting to appeal to new demographics,…

Korean superstars BTS released their hotly anticipated seventh studio album, Map of the Soul: 7, and the record number of fans who preordered it won’t be disappointed. Map of the Soul: 7 BTS Big Hit/Columbia, Feb. 21 While billed as a sequel to their 2019, EP Map of the…

Cultural phenomenon Ozzy Osbourne is a hard man to pin down. Is he the originator of the look and feel of heavy metal? A guy who managed to be in the right place at the right time? A doddering madman, deteriorated by decades of drug excess? Ordinary Man Ozzy…

The effects of climate change are overtaking the Earth, and people seem essentially powerless to stop it. What is a humble synth-pop producer from Canada to do? Grimes’ fifth album, Miss Anthropocene, presents a warning call and a goodbye letter to the planet as we know it. Claire Elise Boucher takes…

Lingua Ignota, The Body and Full of Hell—three of extreme music’s most exciting projects, are joined at the hip. Over the past decade, The Body has collaborated with Full of Hell twice, Kristin Hayter has sung on the latest The Body and Full of Hell albums, and Hayter’s Caligula featured…

Just when you thought ’80s-inspired, feel-good, pop music had been played out, Nashville’s COIN has come to correct you. On third offering Dreamland, the band’s first since 2017’s How Will You Know If You Never Try, and the first since the departure of bassist bassist Zach Dyke, COIN experiments with synthesizers, interludes,…

“This album is the story of a second chance,” Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast said about the duo’s new LP, Always Tomorrow. The definition of a second chance, loosely speaking, is the opportunity to say that one failure isn’t the end and there’s always hope for something better. For Cosentino and Bob…

Whether it’s Randy Blythe in Lamb of God or Jesse Leach in Killswitch Engage, a lot of metalcore bands boil down to a metal act fronted by a hardcore vocalist. For Great American Ghost, vocalist Ethan Harrison has kept the technical trajectory of the band’s 2015 debut, Everyone Leaves, and 2017’s…