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Album reviews and features from our editorial team. Honest criticism, deep dives, and the records that matter.

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Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt
8.4
Must Listen

Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt

Curtis Harding
A concept album about a pilot lost in space that bridges Marvin Gaye era soul with sci-fi imagination — and finds real emotion in the cosmos.
Bishop Taylor · Soul/Space Opera · 2025
My Light, My Destroyer
8.6
Must Listen

My Light, My Destroyer

Cassandra Jenkins
A third album of cosmic intimacy — Cassandra Jenkins makes the personal feel astronomical and the astronomical feel like home.
Bishop Taylor · Indie Folk/Americana · 2024
Emmaar
8.1
Must Listen

Emmaar

Tinariwen
Exiled from their Saharan homeland by conflict, Tinariwen carried the desert with them to California and made their most accessible and urgent record.
Bishop Taylor · Desert Blues · 2014
Luminescent Creatures
9.2
Must Listen

Luminescent Creatures

Ichiko Aoba
A Japanese singer-songwriter builds an underwater cathedral of sound where silence is as important as any note played.
Bishop Taylor · Chamber Folk · 2025
Lady in Satin
9.1
Must Listen

Lady in Satin

Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday's ravaged voice found its deepest truth on an album that transforms technical decline into the rawest form of emotional expression.
Bishop Taylor · Vocal Jazz · 1958
Carrie & Lowell
9.0
Must Listen

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens stripped away every concealment and made the most nakedly emotional album of the decade about the mother who abandoned him.
Bishop Taylor · Indie Folk · 2015
i,i
7.4

i,i

Bon Iver
Justin Vernon reaches for communion and community on Bon Iver's most generous and least focused album.
Bishop Taylor · Experimental Folk · 2019
The Creek Drank the Cradle
7.8

The Creek Drank the Cradle

Iron & Wine
Sam Beam recorded his debut in a home studio and created a world so intimate you can hear the dust settling on the microphone.
Bishop Taylor · Folk · 2002
Either/Or
8.3
Must Listen

Either/Or

Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith whispered his way through twelve songs of devastating beauty and proved that the quietest music can carry the heaviest emotional weight.
Bishop Taylor · Indie Folk · 1997
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
9.4
Must Listen

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus composed a ballet for the demons in his head and the result is the most emotionally violent jazz album ever recorded.
Bishop Taylor · Avant-Garde Jazz · 1963
Head Hunters
9.2
Must Listen

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock plugged in, turned on, and created the album that made jazz funky and funk jazzy.
Bishop Taylor · Jazz-Funk · 1973
Buena Vista Social Club
8.7
Must Listen

Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club
Ry Cooder travelled to Havana and found a group of forgotten musicians who proved that age only deepens the soul of music.
Bishop Taylor · Son Cubano · 1997
Come Away with Me
7.6

Come Away with Me

Norah Jones
A warm, gentle debut that won eight Grammys by reminding millions of listeners that sometimes the quietest voice in the room is the most compelling.
Bishop Taylor · Jazz Pop · 2002
The River
8.5
Must Listen

The River

Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré proved that the blues did not begin in the Mississippi Delta — it began on the banks of the Niger.
Bishop Taylor · Desert Blues · 1990
Zombie
8.9
Must Listen

Zombie

Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti declared war on the Nigerian military with two tracks of incendiary Afrobeat so powerful they provoked an actual military assault.
Bishop Taylor · Afrobeat · 1977
What's Going On
9.6
Must Listen

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye defied Motown, abandoned the hit-single formula, and created the most compassionate protest album in American music.
Bishop Taylor · Soul · 1971
Grace
9.0
Must Listen

Grace

Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley's only completed album is a vessel of almost impossible beauty, carrying a voice that seemed to channel something beyond human experience.
Bishop Taylor · Alternative Rock · 1994
I Put a Spell on You
8.8
Must Listen

I Put a Spell on You

Nina Simone
Nina Simone channelled rage, tenderness, and classical training into an album that refuses to be contained by any single genre.
Bishop Taylor · Jazz/Soul · 1965
Waltz for Debby
9.1
Must Listen

Waltz for Debby

Bill Evans
The most beautiful piano trio recording ever made captures three musicians in a state of near-telepathic communion.
Bishop Taylor · Jazz · 1962
Blue
9.7
Must Listen

Blue

Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell opened a vein and let the music bleed out in the most confessional album ever recorded.
Bishop Taylor · Singer-Songwriter · 1971
Pink Moon
9.3
Must Listen

Pink Moon

Nick Drake
Twenty-eight minutes of devastating beauty, recorded alone in the middle of the night by a ghost who happened to still be alive.
Bishop Taylor · Folk · 1972
A Love Supreme
9.8
Must Listen

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane
John Coltrane's devotional masterpiece is less an album than a prayer — four movements of music that aspire to the condition of the divine.
Bishop Taylor · Spiritual Jazz · 1965
Kind of Blue
9.9
Must Listen

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis
The most important jazz album ever recorded remains, sixty-seven years later, the purest expression of beauty in American music.
Bishop Taylor · Modal Jazz · 1959