4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (25+ words) shatterthestandards.com Milestones: Dawn by Yebba A church singer hired D’Angelo’s band to mourn her mother, then wrote songs about everything else....

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (68+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: DOTOM: Death of the Old Me by Queen Herawin & PA. Dre As her third solo album, the Bronx emcee who joined the Juggaknots after her brothers founded them stages a midlife shedding as group work,…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (50+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Shiloh by DOE DOE recorded her third album live with her family behind her. The testimony service is the strongest machinery the gospel has for handing faith down to a generation. Favorite Track(s): “Every Second,…...

2+ week, 23+ 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, 2+ day ago   (55+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Music for Tomorrow by Johnny Storm A Long Island rapper who produces all of his own music aims his verses at younger men, schooling them in a trade he wants them out of. Favorite Track…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (61+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Under the Same Sky by Zenesoul On her full-length debut, Zenesoul contends with love and departure through the neo-soul tradition she claims as her own, with concrete detail that surfaces unevenly but unmistakably across the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (53+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Dreams Speaking in Colour by the della kit On Dreams Speaking in Colour, the della kit writes R&B from the far side of a breakup and never looks back. Favorite Track(s): “Consumed,” “Pitfall,” “City…...