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Apr 5, 2018 · share: Camila Cabello's success looks set to continue well into 2018 as her debut album, Camila, leads the way as the UK's biggest debut released this year. With the first quarter of 2018...
Dec 18, 2018 · The Paste music staff ranked 20 of our favorite debut records from the past year and we’re excited to hear what these musicians churn out next. Here are the 20 best debut albums of 2018:
Dec 21, 2018 · From Tierra Whack's innovative 'Whack World' to Cardi B's triumphant 'Invasion of Privacy,' our staff makes their picks for the best hip-hop debut of 2018.
- 1 Christine and The Queens – Chris
- 2 Robyn – Honey
- Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
- Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
- Mitski – Be The Cowboy
- Idles – Joy as An Act of Resistance
- Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
- Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
- Low – Double Negative
- 10 Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
From Chris’s opening song, she sets out listening as a gesture of intimacy between her and her listeners. It’s a salvo that draws you close, preparing to plunge you into the sensations she sings about. Sometimes, those are lascivious, but most often they’re alienating – reflecting how even a steady sense of self can be undermined by rejection. It i...
Soon after Robyn released her era-defining 2010 album Body Talk, similar armour-plated bangers about female empowerment duly took over the charts. But pop moves fast and a new, woozier kind of tune by the likes of Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa has made such coldly strident numbers seem old-fashioned. So how would Robyn stay ahead of the game? By makin...
A record about womanhood, and black womanhood in particular. “Remember when they used to say I look too mannish?” Janelle Monáe asks on Django Jane, a song that celebrates “black girl magic” while also acknowledging she has been treated as less-than by a Eurocentric industry. Having starred in two acclaimed, black-led films (Moonlight and Hidden Fi...
Before the Bronx rapper released her 2017-defining single Bodak Yellow, she was better known for snatching wigs on the VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop. Bodak Yellow changed the script: a brilliant track that earned pop cultural momentum from the novelty of Cardi’s melodic, withering flow. But what has made Invasion of Privacy a success a year later...
With Be the Cowboy, Mitski continues to disrupt and update the conventions of indie rock. Gnarly guitars contrast with her extraordinarily nimble, pure voice; there are upbeat disco numbers and delicate, ethereal piano ballads. As a rule, the cheerier songs conceal the bleakest sentiments. The album has an arch, dark humour that echoes Marry Me-era...
Addressing politics in pop can be a tricky balancing act, yet Idles frontman Joe Talbot charges across the tightrope in heavy boots, screaming in the face of the farce unfolding around him. There is untrammelled aggression in his voice, a directness that leaves spittle on your cheeks, but it is humour, not anger, that is his most devastating weapon...
Heaven and Earth can sound like a shout of frustration at the world’s ills, but it also offers hope in the brightness of its harmonised voices and the endless breath of its wind instruments. It is a searching record, one that reflects an artist casting about for the beliefs behind his music, but also one with an underlying energy to enact change: w...
LSD and music are old bedfellows. You can hear the drug’s perspective-expanding effects on rock bands ranging from the Beatles to Tame Impala, while the word acid got added to house to describe the psychedelic weirdness of the squiggling basslines made by the Roland TR-303. Kacey Musgraves, who took LSD while writing her fourth album, Golden Hour, ...
No other woke pop or evisceration of Trump’s America sums up how 2018 frequently felt quite as well as Low’s Double Negative. The lyrics are oblique, but the music seems to be short-circuit and collapse in on itself, nothing working the way it was apparently supposed to. The album is marked by a sense of the familiar being snatched away. There are ...
Conceived intimately, on a piano received for his birthday, Alex Turner’s would-be solo album was significantly fleshed out by the rest of the band so the seams became invisible. Guitarist Jamie Cook slots inventively into the strange new shapes these songs took. Matt Helders caresses the drum kit with jazzbo sensitivity instead of pummelling it. T...
0806 is the debut single album by South Korean idol group D-Crunch. It was released on August 6, 2018, by All-S Company and distributed by Kakao M. The group contributed to the lyrics, composition, and choreography of its songs. The lead single "Palace" is a "powerful" hip hop track. D-Crunch albums · 1T.
Dec 10, 2018 · 5. Shame. British post-punk quintet Shame have become one of the most buzzed-about young bands of this year. Words like “angry,” “energetic” and “explosive” have been thrown around in ...
Dec 11, 2018 · These are Complex’s picks for the best new artists of 2018. 16. Megan Thee Stallion. Megan Thee Stallion is a hot girl, and she knows it. The 23-year-old Houston rapper is the creator of an ...
