Shatter the Standards

• Album Review: OCTANE by Don Toliver | Shatter the Standards
On OCTANE, tenderness arrives with terms and conditions, every declaration of love shadowed by a hand reaching for something else.

• Album Review: 656 by Roc Marciano | Shatter the Standards
The Hempstead pimp laureate returns with another self-produced luxury manual. Another set of immaculate contempt, and the pen stays sharper than ever. Still cold, still funny, still hitting.

• Album Review: Part 3 by 42 Dugg | Shatter the Standards
Detroit street rap’s most paranoid chronicler returns with another status report from inside the siege.

• Album Review: Greyhound by Katie Tupper | Shatter the Standards
Finally dropping her debut, Tupper wrote a record about staying too long and leaving too early, often in the same relationship. The honesty is relentless and occasionally unbearable.

• Album Review: It Could Be Worse by Samm Henshaw | Shatter the Standards
On It Could Be Worse, Samm Henshaw keeps asking love to stay while also begging it not to hurt him. The contradiction is the most honest thing here.

• Album Review: Slime Cry by YoungBoy Never Broke Again | Shatter the Standards
YoungBoy dropped thirty tracks about murders he can’t stop replaying and women he can’t stop losing. This bloated effort dilutes what the specifics earn.

• Album Review: locket by Madison Beer | Shatter the Standards
Madison Beer’s third album circles attachment like a nervous habit with desire used as distraction, leaving her confused for stability, running drills on relationships she already knows the ending to.

• 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.