For its honesty, levity, and sheened musicality, Carey’s twelfth studio affair deserves to be more highly regarded in her catalog. The only thing missing is statistical bragging rights.
Read moreMassive Attack’s ‘Protection’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Each track featured on the group’s second studio affair stands alone as a vignette but collectively builds a rich, textural tapestry of sounds that blend into one another effortlessly.
Read moreThug Life’s Debut & Only Studio Album ‘Thug Life: Volume 1’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
With 2Pac a prominent member of the crew backed up by family and like-minded emcees, the album is one of the best endeavors that the legendary emcee was ever a part of.
Read moreTears For Fears’ ‘The Seeds Of Love’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
Rather than rush back into the studio with ‘Songs From A Bigger Chair,’ Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal put in the work to flesh out a new and exciting musical horizon for them to explore.
Read moreMethod Man & Redman’s ‘Blackout!’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Both Redman and Method Man have historically embraced the grimy aesthetic, and both have distinctive but not dissimilar rhyme styles, as evidenced throughout their first album together.
Read moreGuster’s ‘Lost And Gone Forever’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
What Guster’s third LP teaches us is that the simple fact that you have to make a change doesn’t make it any less painful.
Read moreThe ‘Pulp Fiction’ Soundtrack Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
The ‘Pulp Fiction’ soundtrack would come to be known as a compendium of bygone-era cool that also somehow seemed very new and very fresh, and very much of the ’90s.
Read moreR.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
A wonderful album with very strong songs, ‘Monster’ suggests R.E.M.'s desire to go from a studio band to a full-blown arena-rocking band was more aspirational than achievable in practice.
Read moreInterpol’s ‘Antics’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
Still steeped in the liminal hours amidst the metropolis that never sleeps, Interpol’s sophomore effort delved deeper into their moody city-drenched aesthetic.
Read moreEverything But The Girl’s ‘Temperamental’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
So much of 'Temperamental'—whether it’s in some of its lyrics about nightlife or all of its arrangements—captures the essence of overnights on the dance floor.
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