Brenna Ehrlich

Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Rolling Stone
60

The ambitious pop outlier's latest, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, is haunting but lacks the dynamism of her best work.

Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH
Rolling Stone
70

The Baltimore band keeps pushing against convention on the highly anticipated Never Enough.

Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Rolling Stone
80

The endlessly inventive metal band mixes painterly lyrics, raw aggression, and earworm melodies on their best album yet.

Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Rolling Stone
80

Michelle Zauner’s latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), is another example of her eclectic indie-pop excellence.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
Rolling Stone
70

Cave plays preacher, congregation, and god over the course of a suite of songs that are in equal measure elegiac and ecstatic.

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
Rolling Stone
80
A visionary Pakistani artist keeps many musical traditions moving forward.
Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Rolling Stone
80
One of indie rock’s most ambitious songwriters goes deeper than ever on 'The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We'.
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun
Rolling Stone
80
Militarie Gun's raucous debut is an emotional breakdown dressed up like a sugar rush.
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Love In Exile
Rolling Stone
80
An innovative jazz pianist, a Grammy-winning Urdu vocalist, and an inventive multi-instrumentalist get together for an album that sounds like nothing else out there.
Destroyer - LABYRINTHITIS
Rolling Stone
70
Dan Bejar seems game to throw everything against the proverbial wall and see what sound it makes.
David Bowie - Toy
Rolling Stone
70
Listening to Toy, it's clear Bowie is having an absolute blast, breathing new life into bits and bobs of his catalogue only really known by diehard fans.
Louis Tomlinson - Walls
Rolling Stone
50

Despite some promising moments, the One Direction member’s solo debut doesn’t quite assert enough musical independence.

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