This year was one big stress test that presented artists with a choice: Face uncomfortable realities or serve distractions to the audience. Pop music turned inward and looked backward while hip ...

To close the album out, he brings it all together by describing a complicated relationship with hip-hop. — E. Fu Blood Incantation’s ascent from the heavy metal underground is one worth studying: That ...

Think of all the drugs you haven’t tried yet. Your life has only just begun. Such is the spirit of Brat, an album that argues that messy, melodramatic existentialism is inevitable, but so is the ...

Paste’s 22nd Best Albums of the Year list, first compiled by the music team in a Google doc nearly 60 pages long, has arrived. 2024 was one for the books, and one of the best years of music of ...

There was a week in mid-October when The Quietus’ release schedule spreadsheet was overflowing with bounteous goodness, with over ten albums by artists we’re partial to out on the same day. This was a ...

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One, from more than a decade ago, catches my eye: “Charli XCX 16.04.13.” Banquet is the unofficial kingmaker of the UK album chart. Forty per cent of artists who have secured the top album in 2024 ...

Touted as a “special album”, GFRIEND are slated to drop a pre-release track on January 6, 2025 before releasing the ‘Season of Memories’ album in full on January 13, 2025. The special ...

What is the best metal album of each year since 1970? Come find out! We've sifted through the best of the best from over half a century of metal, enjoying fierce debates along the way while making ...

Here are my Top 10 jazz/improv albums of 2024. Each of them made my life a little better this year, and I’m hoping they might do the same for you. “Compassion,” by Vijay Iyer (ECM ...