1+ week, 2+ day ago   (953+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Invincible Summer by Levina Ten years inside a major-label machine taught Levina to doubt her own judgment. Her independent debut is about the people who taught it back. Invincible Summer is the long-awaited alternative soul…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (798+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Growing Pains by Dono A Cincinnati singer built her first album around the counsel of the women who raised her, and it is one of the year’s best R&B debuts. “This Little Light of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (55+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Don’t Look Down by Rod Wave On his seventh album, Rod Wave sings his recovery to his mother, his women, and his promoter, and the money does the certifying every time. Favorite Track(s): “Look…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (65+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Land of the Neon Sun by Kam Franklin After fifteen years fronting The Suffers, Kam Franklin made a solo debut about the arrangement the music business offers young women, and she describes it from the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Criminal Migraine by Ice-T On his first solo rap album in twenty years, Ice-T raps about street survival, betrayal, and a violent internal life that decades of legitimate success have done nothing to quiet. He…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (43+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: PAELLA! by Stoic A type-beat maker from Staten Island quit nursing school, won a Grammy for Doechii, and gathered various guests for his masterful solo debut. Favorite Track(s): “FREEFALL,” “HAIRCUT,” “GANG SAMBA”...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (51+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: The Price of Clarity by Ransom The New Jersey veteran shades his usual technical menace with grief, marriage, and an admission he had been sitting on for years. Favorite Track(s): “Good Mournings,” “The Temptations,” “The…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (774+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Repeat Repeat Repeat by Paul Wall & Termanology Paul Wall and Termanology’s third album together is a hustle record about debt, and both men rap better here when they’re saying who they owe than when they’re…...