From Big Thief to Big Time, we pick our favorite records this year.
Pusha T It’s Almost Dry
The Shakespeare of cocaine rap is back, and he brought his friends.
9), and Fontaines.
Rosalía; Angel Olsen; Pusha T; Beyoncé; Matt Healy of the 1975.Credit: Getty Images
The kids are all right, even if they’re not okay.
Leah Greenblatt
6.
Waxahatchee) always seem to be walking away from love.
The 1975, ‘Being Funny in a Foreign Language’.Dirty Hit
The ride is easy; it’s the journey that’s complicated.Jason Lamphier
5.
“Tell me how I should feel/How can this heart learn how to heal?”
she asks plaintively on the hip-swaying lullaby “Ghost On.”
Wet Leg, ‘Wet Leg’.Domino Record Co
And she does transform, endlessly, over the next 42 minutes.
Pusha T, ‘It’s Almost Dry’.G.O.O.D. Music
Fontaines D.C., ‘Skinty Fia’.Partisan Records
Plains, ‘I Walked With You a Ways’.Anti
Angel Olsen, ‘Big Time’.Jagjaguwar
Big Thief, ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’.4AD
FKA twigs, ‘Caprisongs’.Atlantic
Rosalía, ‘Motomami’.Columbia
Beyoncé, ‘Renaissance’.Parkwood Entertainment
