Charli XCX, courtesy. Terrence O’Connor Charli XCX has made it abundantly clear she has no intentions of creating the same album twice. Her breakthrough came a decade ago via collaborations with Iggy Azalea and Icona Pop, but collaborations are about the end of the similarities between her music then…

Experimentation is essential for the evolution of an artist’s style to create distinction between each subsequent work and encourage the audience to return and experience the new side of the artist. The catch-22 is that experimentation can often backfire just as much as it can do wonders. On the…

It was a long journey, but we’ve made it to the top 10. Before you get upset that I excluded your favorite album, let me first give a shout out to this year’s honorable mentions: The War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding, Algiers’ The Underside of Power, Cigarettes After Sex’s self-titled record,…