Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Album Reviews
BLAST
Blackpolitan
Lists
Milestones
Soulpolitan
Wednesday Roundups
bmr
Words Past da Margin
Latest
Top
Discussions
Album Review: Papercut by Imani Imani
On her surprise pgLang debut, Imani Imani sings desire as a flat demand and turns it into a study in control.
13 mins ago
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Maya LeRoux
Album Review: Family Over Fame by J Nolan
His most personal album is cutting in the working life and softest when it reaches the flex template. Faith braided with hustle gets him further here…
14 mins ago
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Zachary Penn
Album Review: 5786 AM: Easy Listen by Mach-Hommy
Some of the densest, funniest writing of Mach-Hommy’s career is locked on a physical-only record built to keep most people out.
14 mins ago
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Lance “LX” Brooks
Wednesday Roundups #152: 22 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Brian Jackson, Skye Newman, Ye Ali, 38 Spesh, Saint Hairson, Phoenix James, MALIA, Le$ & DJ Mr. Rogers, Cecily Wilborn…
8 hrs ago
•
Shatter the Standards
2
Dexter Wansel Brought the Synthesizer to the Sound of Philadelphia
Dexter Wansel’s four solo albums chased the cosmos; his most durable songs went out under other singers’ names.
20 hrs ago
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Reuben Dara
3
1
The 50 Best Rap Albums of 2026 So Far
Rap had its best year in recent memory, and the discourse spent it relitigating one major-label letdown nobody plays for fun. It could have run a…
Jun 2
•
Shatter the Standards
6
2
The 50 Best R&B Albums of 2026 So Far
Anyone still typing that R&B is dead skipped the part where fifty of its best albums showed up before the year hit its midpoint. Veterans came back…
Jun 2
•
Shatter the Standards
5
1
Album Review: K-POPS! (Music from and Inspired by K-POPS! Motion Picture) by Anderson .Paak
A soundtrack that flirts its way through seventeen tracks and only stops flirting twice, when a kid sings and a father answers.
Jun 2
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Rosa Delgado
1
Album Review: Road Trip to Amsterdam by Smoke DZA
On another city-titled tape, the Kush God sets the weed aside to grieve his dead, and that grieving is the realest writing of his career.
Jun 2
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Nia Lattimore
2
Milestones: Sparkle by Aretha Franklin
A man wrote every word and a woman made all of it hers. The best Aretha Franklin album in years almost didn’t survive the sessions.
Jun 1
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Kendra Vale
5
1
4
At the Heart of Earth, Wind & Fire
Welcome to the wondrous world of an extraordinary musician fascinated by John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, and Miles Davis. His name? Maurice White. He…
Jun 1
•
Shatter the Standards
,
Brandon O'Sullivan
, and
Phil
3
Earth, Wind & Fusion
Riding the wave of Earth, Wind & Fire's success, Maurice White invested himself in several jazz-fusion albums during the second half of the 1970s. A…
Jun 1
•
Shatter the Standards
and
Reginald Marcel
1
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts