Album Reviews – Page 6 – The Talking Fern

Review: Blood Orange’s Haunted, Sexy ‘Negro Swan’

Dev Hynes delivers praise songs to self-realization and fluidity, with help from Janet Mock, A$AP Rocky, P-Diddy and others.

The best moments on veteran New York post-punk band’s latest LP finds them stepping out of their comfort zone

The veteran grunge band feels stuck between gears on their third album since the death of Layne Staley

The programmed and the human come together on an album that combines 20th Century composition and futurist electronics

The band’s 21st album swerves its own weird way through Sixties and Seventies rock

The talented 25-year-old delivers hip-hop-soul with easygoing beats, earnestness and humor

The veteran singer teams up with a former member of the band Lambchop for an album of funk and covers that doesn’t live up to her high standard.

On ‘Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor,’ outside-the-box improvisers examine the influence of a legend who recently passed on

Janelle Monae and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus are featured on the soundtrack to Boots Riley’s radical film

A new compilation shows that even with his biggest hits behind him, Prince could still stun you with his genius