Category: Trax

LIANNE LA HAVAS, Lianne La Havas (Nonesuch): ★★★★ A relationship is being traced here. However, it...

DINNER PARTY, Dinner Party (Sounds of Crenshaw/EMPIRE):★★★½ 2020’s conflicts inform this...

KHRUANGBIN, Mordechai (Dead Oceans): ★★★1/2 Titled after a friend who took bassist Laura Lee Ochoa...

ROY AYERS, ADRIAN YOUNGE & ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD, Roy Ayers: Jazz Is Dead 002 (Jazz Is Dead):...

WYATT WADDELL, Fight! (Rosebud Allday): **** In the expanding parade of raw songs emerging from...

J.S. ONDARA, Folk ‘n’ Roll Vol. 1: Isolation (Verve Forecast): ★★★★ “I’ve been pulled out of the...

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN, Temple (Ribbon): ★★★ Co-producing with longtime bandmate Adam...

JONAH MUTONO, GERG (True Panther/EQT): ***½ Mutono, who previously recorded as Kidepo,...

SURF ROCK IS DEAD, Existential Playboy (SRiD): *** The Brooklyn-base duo’s first full-length album...

LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Good Souls Better Angels (Highway 20): ★★★1/2 Blues structure and biblical...

FIONA APPLE, Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic): ★★★★ “Every print I left upon the track/ Has led me...

LAURA MARLING, Song for Our Daughter (Chrysalis/Partisan): **** The British songwriter’s long...

ELIZA GILKYSON, 2020 (Red House): **** In case the title’s too subtle, the Pasadena-raised,...

CHILDISH GAMBINO, 3.15.20 (mcDJ/RCA): ***½ Actor/musician/writer Donald Glover’s latest album as...

JORDAN MACKAMPA, Foreigner (AWAL): 4 Opening with the upbeat, samba-flavored “Magic,” the Republic...