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Album Review: Whatever’s Clever! by Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth makes his most personal album with BloodPop®, and a guest list spanning three decades. The directness holds.
 • Shatter the Standards and Rosa Delgado
Album Review: Zavier by Fetty Wap
Fetty Wap’s first album after federal prison leans hard into romance and old loyalties. It’s slight and comfortable when it should be reckoning with the…
 • Shatter the Standards and Tai Lawson
Album Review: MEMORIA, in blue by Noah Guy
The Philly singer’s debut is a warm, unpolished grief record made almost entirely with his roommate. It sounds exactly as close as that implies.
 • Shatter the Standards and Danica Ford
Album Review: Confessions of a Lonely Girl by Victory
Victory Boyd gave away her best songs and won a Grammy nobody expected. Her third record asks who profits from love and whether God’s answer is the…
 • Shatter the Standards and Tori Hammond
Album Review: Is There Anybody Home? by rum.gold
A divorce record from someone who never felt at home anywhere. Every room on it is empty, and he keeps walking through them anyway.
 • Shatter the Standards and Jhanel
Anniversaries: SEPT 5TH by dvsn
Toronto’s OVO duo made a sex album with church in its bones and enough gorgeous restraint to survive its own bluntness.
 • Shatter the Standards and Raya Sinclair
EP Review: Candy by Justine Skye
Justine Skye spent a decade auditioning for a lane that kept moving. She’s all the way in one now, and it fits like a thong she didn’t bother wearing.
 • Shatter the Standards and Rosa Delgado
Milestones: Acoustic Soul by India.Arie
On her 2001 debut, the Atlanta singer-songwriter built a guitar-driven R&B album around self-possession and quiet conviction, and mostly proved that…
 • Shatter the Standards and Esther Blake
Album Review: ADL by Yeat
The double album promises life on one side and love on the other, but mostly Yeat just talks about his money twice.
 • Shatter the Standards and Cierra Marcel
Album Review: Full Circle by Tom Misch
The south London guitarist’s first solo album in eight years bets everything on the song instead of the loop. It pays off more often than it doesn’t.
 • Shatter the Standards and Priya Okafor
New Music Drops: March 27, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of March 27th. We know it can be…
 • Shatter the Standards
Album Review: Brilliance of a Falling Moon by dälek
Will Brooks at fifty raps harder and more precisely than ever, turning dälek’s industrial-noise hip-hop into the sharpest political record of the year.
 • Shatter the Standards and Alexandria Elise
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