Shatter the Standards

• NEW Album Review: The Leaks by Lil Baby | Shatter the Standards
2025 finds Atlanta star Lil Baby coming off a misfired studio album and a disintegrating world tour. As a compilation, this felt less like generosity than a way to monetize leftovers.

• Album Review: The Pilot by MAVI | Shatter the Standards
MAVI works out from the chaos of his last record with a sober eye and a heavy heart. This mixtape traces how he confronts the cost of success and the scars he has been carrying.

• Album Review: Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time by Jessie J | Shatter the Standards
A decade after her first break, Jessie J isn’t chasing the charts. The singer who once rode the line between pop hits and stage‑school bravado is balancing motherhood, illness, loss, and independence.

• Album Review: Eusexua Afterglow by FKA twigs | Shatter the Standards
After Eusexua’s dance‑floor high, FKA twigs turns the glow of recovery into something hungrier and self‑possessed.

• Album Review: Eusexua by FKA twigs | Shatter the Standards
Sex-beats and playful melodies: The British model and pop enigma FKA twigs experiments with club sounds on ‘Eusexua’—her new album—to heal her soul from abuse.