1+ hour, 54+ min ago  (752+ words) Album Review: Confessions of a Lonely Girl by Victory'shatterthestandards.com Album Review: Confessions of a Lonely Girl by Victory Victory Boyd gave away her best songs and won a Grammy nobody expected. Her third record asks who profits from love…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (670+ words) Album Review: Is There Anybody Home? by rum.gold'Shatter the Standards Album Review: Is There Anybody Home? by rum.gold A divorce record from someone who never felt at home anywhere. Every room on it is empty, and he keeps…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1181+ words) Anniversaries: SEPT 5TH by dvsn'Shatter the Standards Anniversaries: SEPT 5TH by dvsn Toronto's OVO duo made a sex album with church in its bones and enough gorgeous restraint to survive its own bluntness. The anonymity suited the music. By late 2015 and early…...

16+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1415+ words) Milestones: Acoustic Soul by India.Arie'Shatter the Standards Milestones: Acoustic Soul by India.Arie On her 2001 debut, the Atlanta singer-songwriter built a guitar-driven R&B album around self-possession and quiet conviction, and mostly proved that sincerity could carry its own…...

19+ hour, 49+ min ago  (423+ words) The lenticular cover art for ADL shows Yeat watching his own funeral on one side and his own wedding on the other. Two discs split the album along that axis'A Dangerous Lyfe for the excess and the cost, A Dangerous…...

21+ hour, 52+ min ago  (248+ words) Misch is the youngest of three siblings, and "Sisters with Me" is the most personal and direct thing he's ever written. He put it together while living with his sisters in the family home for the first time as adults....

1+ day, 53+ min ago  (99+ words) I AM A MAN" is structured as a litany, and it could collapse into somewhere else if Brooks didn't keep shifting what each declaration carries. The first verse opens with a fact that counterparts as a malady: I'm a man…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1235+ words) Album Review: THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. by RAYE'Shatter the Standards Album Review: THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. by RAYE RAYE's sophomore album splits the difference between a dating-app field guide and a church testimony. Every man she draws is…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (933+ words) Album Review: sounds for someone by Elmiene'Shatter the Standards Album Review: sounds for someone by Elmiene The British-Sudanese singer's first album is addressed almost entirely to his late father. It's the most quietly devastating R&B debut in years. In…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1003+ words) Milestones: The Dude by Quincy Jones'Shatter the Standards Milestones: The Dude by Quincy Jones Jones" final A&M record turned an art gallery impulse and a $50 demo singer into the blueprint for "80s R&B. American pop and R&B had entered…...