Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures

The first posthumous dip into Amy Winehouse’s vaults is a mishmash, but its best moments remind you of her huge voice and biting charisma This is a sad record. A grab bag of outtakes, unreleased tracks, demos, covers and song sketches, these recordings feel like a gut punch. They remind you, first and foremost, of [...]

Rihanna’s – Talk That Talk

Pop’s queen of the sexy single-entendre makes her catchiest, smuttiest record yet Four years and 10 huge hits ago, Rihanna released an album called Good Girl Gone Bad. She’s never gone back. Today, Rihanna is pop’s bad-girl-in-chief. You could call her the heir to the blues tradition of double-entendre salaciousness, except that, in Rihanna’s songs, [...]

Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials

★★★ Brit singer puts in a bid for rock stardom with big tunes, bigger emotions

Patrick Stump – Soul Punk

★★★1/2
Island

Fall Out boy reinvents himself as slicked-up hook-slinger

Nirvana – Nevermind 20th Anniversary

★★★★★

A jampacked box set dusts off the myth of Nirvana’s masterpiece.

(Universal Music)

The Cars

★★★★
Move Like This
Hear Music/Concord Music Group

Jennifer Lopez

★★
Love?
Island Def Jam

Matthew Morrison

★★★1/2
Matthew Morrison
Mercury

Christina Perri

★★★1/2
Lovestrong
Atlantic

Glasvegas

Euphoric Heartbreak
★★1/2