Halsey, courtesy. A mere month after giving birth, Halsey has returned to the music scene with their most garish and gory project yet. Influenced heavily by pregnancy and the beauty and complexity of childbirth, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power attempts to disrupt the discourse around pregnancy…

Janelle Monáe performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2018. Photo: Shawn Robbins. If you read part one of my list of the top 50 albums of the year, you may already be disappointed by some of my choices, especially with Robyn’s comeback album making a “premature” appearance…