16+ hour, 57+ min ago   (944+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Westside Whimsy by Jhené Aiko Six years after Chilombo, Jhené Aiko drives the whole California promise to the edge of the Pacific, then turns around and sings to the coast that raised her. California’s State…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (749+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: ATTITUDE ERA! by Natanya Six years into a catalog she built alone, Natanya makes her first full-length a course in asking for exactly what she wants. That’s the thing about trying to enter the world…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (704+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: LOCKED IN by Nemzzz On LOCKED IN, Nemzzz prices every relationship against the work and never apologizes for it. When Dizzee Rascal’s Boy in da Corner swept up the 2003 Mercury Prize in September, American radio…...

6+ day, 19+ hour 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, 5+ day 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, 3+ 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, 3+ day ago   (59+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Leap Life by Saul Williams Saul Williams improvises over live jazz, reads from a South African book during recording, and lets his partner sing an entire track in French while Carlos Niño decides what belongs…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (50+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: STARLIFE by Victony Victony’s sophomore album is pure Lagos party music staked on personality, and the local references and wordplay running through these songs stamp the best of them as unmistakably his. Favorite Track(s):…...

2+ week, 5+ day 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”...