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With Snow Angel, Reneé Rapp uses her powerful vocals to capture earnest vulnerability and relatable emotion.

Cy reveals her favorite albums from 2023. Did some of your faves make the list?

Princess Nokia ha fully embraced her alt-rock persona and uses it with great effectiveness on her latest, i love you but this is goodbye.

Listen. Anything Korn releases (deluxe edition or original addition) earns a spot on this list, no questions asked.

U-KNOW Yunho has a voice that has aged as elegantly as he has. While Reality Show does highlight that it also crawls over into camp.

Yves Tumor taps into the power of 1980s alt-pop with Praise a Lord Who Chews... A stunning piece rampant with fantastical imagery.

Masego offers a self-titled exploration of the various facets of Masego the multi-instrumentalist and Masego the man.

With her clear, sharp, lovely voice, Summer Walker offers CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE, a lush, gorgeous and mature piece of music.

While an overall genuinely entertaining experience, Jason Mraz latest, Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, does feel a bit...meh.

HEAVY by Jean Deaux is both soft and jagged, hard-edged R&B that slices through every other genre like a hot katana through butter.

With her genre-bending effort Songs She'd Like to Hear, Kennie seemingly effortlessly wraps genres around each other for something nuanced.

With Soul,PRESENT, Q directly takes inspiration from the likes of Prince, Climaxx and Terrance Trent D'arby and executes with earnestness.

In his first EP, WANT, jazz-tronic artist OoOooT brings moody, sensual, jazz-fueled electronic music to a still-growing scene South Korea.

With her latest release, Subtle Body Dawn, Anna Wise delivers a more earthbound, intimate peek into her artistry.

TVXQ offers their 20th anniversary album, 20&2. Ladies and gentlemen, they were, they are and will forever be the Rising Gods of the East

With So Much (For) Stardust, Fall Out Boy brings the noise and the fire, reminding fans that their music (and legacy) are undeniable.

Sleep Token third full-length album takes me back to a time when metal (especially of the dark variety) actually kicked you in the teeth.

R&B songstress SOMA offers more R&B nuance and authenticity in 20 minutes than most do in 60.

HARD, the latest from veteran group SHINee, definitively defines the foursome in their latest era.