JakeAnn Powers is one of the sharpest critical minds working today. Album Review: Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' is written in blood.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/19/1245630721/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review
Jake has moved!Laura Snapes is a really good music critic. #rockcrit
From: @pitchfork
https://flipboard.com/@pitchfork/album-reviews-66imekc7z/-/a-a5MrSgnFRtmGLlhEZ4ivKw%3Aa%3A910329480-%2F0
Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
You only have to listen to the last few weeks in pop music to understand that, yes, Saturn has very much returned. There are its icy rings barging into Ariana Grande’s eternal sunshine in “Saturn Returns Interlude,” a brief explainer about the astrological notion that after the 29 years or so it …
I love Robert Christgau's two criteria for reviewing an album:
1) Do I want to play it again just to hear it? 2) Am I ever actively and consciously enjoying what I’m hearing on some purely aesthetic level?
https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-december-2023
I sure wish Ann Powers was on here. She’s the sharpest rock critic working today. Here, she captures what makes the new #boygenius single “Emily I'm Sorry” so good.
https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2023/01/19/1149930157/boygenius-emily-im-sorry