5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (502+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Slime Language 3 by Young Stoner Life Young Thug rebuilds YSL around a restless new class of signees, but a 41-track double-disc compilation leaves its strongest introductions buried beneath too much dead weight. Slime Language was…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (956+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: PRIMA by ADÉLA Cut from the audition that built KATSEYE, ADÉLA makes a debut about being watched, ranked, and sent home, and wins the exchange. In 2023, twenty performers were flown out to Los Angeles for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (821+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: LOVER GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN by Amari Noelle Out of a city the country stopped funding, Amari Noelle stages the party herself, covers every tab in the room, and owns the company that put…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (61+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Organized Rhyme by Fat Joe With his twelfth album, Fat Joe folds the deaths of his mother, his father, and a brother into the crime talk he has run since Represent, and the grief makes…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (68+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: “Tell Me of Love!” by Aaron Taylor On a soul record he mostly produced, Aaron Taylor writes love songs that hand a partner the work of rescue, purpose, and plain kindness, and his open-handed writing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (64+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: thank you saturn by Angelo Mota On a self-produced album about half at God and half at the people in his corner, Angelo Mota works out where the safety net actually hangs in this country…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (62+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Thank You by Mike D Cancer took Adam Yauch in 2012, and the Beastie Boys ended with him. Mike D records alone for the first time and describes his own head in terms of the device…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (61+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Sewaside IV by Mike Shabb On his fourth outing, Mike Shabb raps about his block in Montreal and the family that raised him there. The violence and the personal material are written simultaneously, and both…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (63+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: it really isn’t what it is by Manana A songwriter who built love songs for Burna Boy, Tyla, and Cynthia Erivo made a record about the discipline of leaving, and the best songs go where…...