While not always believable. Cynthia Erivo's debut album Ch. 1 vs. 1 has moments of sheer and utter beauty.

Room306's latest album BOOZE AND PETAL is a deeply textured album that reintroduces them as a band out of time.

Auntie Melissa did NOT come to play with you children! One Way Out is just as raw and raucous as anything she's released.

BADBADNOTGOOD's Talk Memory is an aural experience drenched in sensory stimulation.

Jimmy Brown and Jword offer their Chérie EP, going behind the lovemaking to the roller coaster of love.

Welcome 2 America is a Prince album that Prince himself didn't see fit to release. And there are reasons for that.

Natalie Imbruglia returns with Firebird to deliver a truly human experience to those trying to navigate their vulnerability.

Red Velvet's Queendom doesn't so much stamp them as the "queens" of the genre as it solidifies them as a very capable, mature pop group.

Mild High Club gifts listeners with an aural experience that's both warm and transcendental.

With Neptune, Gallant brings his most soulful, poetic and comprehensive piece of work to date.

Leellamarz offers a surprisingly tender rap album that while more singing than rapping is still earnest in delivery.

With his debut EP, BAD LOVE, KEY manages to find his own voice and fearlessly express his vocal strength.

I had high hopes for kaogaii's BACK HAN SOL. And in the beginning, those hopes were realized.

LOONA's [&} is another in a long list of K-pop that sounds the same and adds very little to the conversation.

LUNARSOLAR's latest, Rise, doesn't do much to differentiate it from any other girl group release of the past five years.

Taking music I identify it and using it as a gimmick to house less than interesting delivery makes LOCALS ONLY unappealing to me.

JAY B's SOMO: FUME, while decent, doesn't do much to really give the GOT7 alum a genuine identity.

Billie Eilish's latest album, "Happier Than Ever" is decent but ultimately uninteresting.

Jimmy Brown gives us more grown folks music for those really trying to act grown with bedroom playlist.

Healy's Tungsten is a decent album for what it is, but riding the back of what came before it renders it mediocre.