The Jamaican music industry has always been more based on singles, but Naturally is a ten-song, album-length argument for why Griffiths is such a foundational artist in reggae and beyond.
There's always been a hint of sorrow to Red River Dialect, but in the first single from Broken Stay Open Sky, the British folk-rock band is almost rhapsodic.
Swift brings together pulsing drumbeats, surging keyboards and multi-tracked vocals on her new album. The result is a record that mixes passion and emotion with careful control.
The country-rock aria, from Carlile's new album, is dedicated to the delicate boys and striving girls born into – and, she insists, destined to triumph over – a divisive time.
Songwriter Sean Bean says "A Warm Recollection," from the band's new album Dead And Loving It, is about "the high stakes of living life in the face of certain death."
The Atlanta rapper's long-gestating debut album portrays a person at ease with their many, and divergent, aspects — here, CyHi tells the stories behind a breakout album.