One Direction: Made In the A.M.
One Direction Made In the A.M. (Columbia) Releasing five albums in five years is no small feat—not to mention doing so while going on world tours between each release. Managing to make each album better than More...
Marina and the Diamonds: Froot
Marina and the Diamonds Froot (Atlantic) Pop stars often use their third album to showcase their “authenticity.” In a way, Froot is Marina and the Diamonds’ attempt to do just that. But Marina and the Diamonds More...
Chadwick Stokes: The Horse Comanche
Chadwick Stokes The Horse Comanche (Ruff Shod Records) Twenty years into his career, Chadwick Stokes, primarily known for his work with college rock legends Dispatch and his politically-minded State Radio project, More...
One Direction: Four
One Direction Four (Syco Music) Boy bands aren’t supposed to make it to their fourth album, at least not while they’re still relevant. Backstreet Boys, *NSync, and Take That all have three albums from their More...
Nick Jonas: Nick Jonas
Nick Jonas Nick Jonas (Interscope) If we’re getting technical, this is really Nick Jonas’s third solo album. Before the Jonas Brothers released any music, Nick, coming off his then-recent success on Broadway, More...
The Kooks: Listen
The Kooks Listen (Virgin EMI) Listening to the latest album by British rock quartet The Kooks, it’s hard to recognize them as the same band that put out jangly pop albums like Junk of the Heart or Konk. More...
Ariana Grande: My Everything
Ariana Grande My Everything (Republic) For the sake of full disclosure, I should explain that I have been a gigantic fan of Ariana Grande’s for many years. I was first aware of her when she was in the Broadway More...
Kimbra: The Golden Echo
Kimbra The Golden Echo (Warner Brothers) There’s a phrase, “Everything but the kitchen sink,” used to describe something as overindulgent or overstuffed. It typically has a negative connotation, but on New More...
5 Seconds of Summer: 5 Seconds of Summer
5 Second of Summer 5 Seconds of Summer (Capitol Records) 5 Seconds of Summer is objectively not a boy band. They don’t dance, they all play their own instruments, they (co)write their own songs, and there’s More...
Michael Jackson: Xscape
Michael Jackson Xscape (Epic Records) A posthumous album from the world’s greatest pop star was inevitable. In fact, this will surely not be the last one we see either. It’s something that we should try to More...
