Editor Pick: Music

The familiarity of each track encourages listeners to pay close attention to their lyrics.

‘Watch It Sparkle’ is radical and confusing.

Two new albums from the snubbed composer of the score for the Oscar-winning 'Birdman.'

If this album is any indication, 'Bop' is alive and well—and still kicking backsides.

Two new releases out this month reexamine the legacy of The Rolling Stones' classic 1971 album 'Sticky Fingers' from different angles, and the results are as predictably mixed as you might expect.

The idea for 'Unity' was in the fusing of two cultures.

The English singer-songwriter's gift for melodic, catchy, socially perceptive glam-pop with literate lyrics and operatic sizzle is undimmed on his fourth studio album.

'The Beginning' has a very informal sound to it despite the tightness of the musicians. The songs come across as casual, as if the product of a bunch of guys jamming together on a Saturday afternoon. The result is an understated artfulness that is uncommonly vivid and starkly forceful.

Babymetal a metal-laden wrecking ball, ready to destroy your expectations and blow your eardrums out, all while not being old enough to drink.

All Bokar’s passions are on display on his February release, 'Guitar Balafonics.'