Daniel Caesar, “Never Enough.” Never Enough captures the hazy uncertainty R&B crooner Daniel Caesar felt during the past three years. Introducing the long-awaited third album (his first since 2019’s CASE STUDY 01) with surreal instrumentals and his signature falsetto on “Ocho Rios,” he clearly and softly sings, “In the nick…

Omar Apollo, ‘Ivory.’ After a string of EPs and a mixtape in the last few years, singer-songwriter Omar Apollo has finally finished Ivory. A long time in the making—he scrapped almost an entire album’s worth of material mere days before promotion began, and he started over—his first LP continues his trend…

Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on August 11, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins and Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Touting her new record, High As Hope, Florence and the Machine played her first U.S. show Saturday at Outside Lands with the new…

Welcome, to my five-part series counting down what I believe to be the 50 best albums of 2017. I listened to an insane amount of new music during my first year as a staff writer with RIFF, nearly 150 album releases, in fact. With that in mind, when narrowing down all…