A new pop power trio consisting of Labrinth, Sia & Diplo bring their skills to their giddy, trippy super-session debut that is mesmerizing yet lacks an overall profoundness. The issue with supergroups (although they look and sound amazing on paper) is that it can be a huge clash of the Alphas, the many egos trying…
The Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter’s debut LP brings her captivating and enchanting voice and talent to songs that demolish all expectations – her music is empathetic to the core. If there is one message to take away from Stella Donnelly’s debut album Beware of the Dogs, it’s that when Donnelly is calling you out – and she…
A songwriter already known for her work penning excellent pop hits for Ariana Grande, Khalid and more, finally claims the spotlight on her debut album, but she struggles to define what makes her unique. Among the many female songwriters who have helped pen chart-topping hits all around the world, only a handful of them have…
Among various pop outings this Spring, Khalid’s sophomore effort fails to stand out on a perfectly credible record that is sluggish and lacks personality. Growing up as a military kid that was shunted between schools, states, countries throughout his childhood – Khalid has consistently been telling us he always felt “like an outcast.” And children…
The debut album from the noir-pop meteoric star lives in a world of its own: gothic, bass-heavy, at turns both daring and quite beautiful. Billie Eilish is the 17-year-old, homeschooled choir singer turned pop music prodigy – achieving over 15 million Instagram followers, selling out shows all around the world, a modeling contract and plenty…
In this absurdist black comedy satire of middle-class suburban envy, co-directors/writers Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe imagine a bizarre world where jealous neighbors push politeness to the extreme. Frank Kafka meets The Good Place meets Edward Scissorhands somewhere on the edge of the alternative universe that The Lobster was set is the best way to describe the debut black…
Deepening his folk-soul pop sound, the Irish singer-songwriter gets political and adventurous on his sophomore effort. The term “singer-songwriter” has become a defiled term. These days, it’s thrown at any vocalist who does enough to earn a writing credit among the many dozens of names jostling for space on their hit song. However, Andrew Hozier-Byrne,…
Brazilian documentarian Fernando Grostein Andrade’s first narrative feature is an upbeat, lighthearted YA drama centered on a teen undergoing an identity crisis while curious about his family’s Middle Eastern culinary heritage. If there’s another country as geographically and culturally diverse as the United States, it’s definitely Brazil – with mixes of Africa, European, Asian and…
A bold, tremulous feat of a debut album, the Norwegian pop princess has crafted a light narrative that is uniquely impressive, impassioned and remarkably relatable. In the few years leading up to the release of her debut album, Norwegian singer Sigrid has built up a musical CV so polished that it’s almost suspicious. Garnering international…
Rural Oklahmon life circa 1960 is tough for two teenage misfits played by Kara Hayward as the outcast and Liana Liberto as the customs-defying new girl in town in this B&W coming-of-age drama (also starring Tony Hale & Malin Akerman) that is retro in all the right ways. 2018 was a great year for black…