As always, rock was a guitar-led extravaganza in 2023 with artists drawing from an ever-widening musical well. These are the 25 best rock albums of the year.
February’s best hip-hop projects feature angular experiments, tranquil vibes, a returning legend, and boundaries being blurred.
Travel back five years ago when the release calendar was rife with stellar albums. 2015 offered such an embarrassment of musical riches, that we selected 80 albums as best of the year.
Algiers are what would result if Verso Books turned into an art rock band. This is a very good thing.
The indie rock genre is wide and unwieldy, but the musicians selected here share an awareness of one's place on the cultural-historical timeline.
