Shatter the Standards

• Album Review: PROJECT X by Key Glock | Shatter the Standards
Twenty tracks of money, codeine, and motion in the same dry deadpan, and Key Glock is good enough at it that even the cuts riding one word go down easy.

• Album Review: God Must Really Love Me by Tori Kelly | Shatter the Standards
On her sixth album, made in the first year of motherhood, Tori Kelly sings about a marriage that holds, a new son, and the God she thanks for both.

• Album Review: A Little Vengeance by Jessie Reyez | Shatter the Standards
On her fourth album, Jessie Reyez names every weapon she’s holding over a cheating ex and won’t fire one.

• Album Review: Big Mama by Latto | Shatter the Standards
Her filthiest, hardest writing rides in the same car as the baby seat, and the pregnancy flexes right alongside the Maybachs and Magic City money.

• Album Review: SE9 by Skye Newman | Shatter the Standards
A 22-year-old from South East London names the household damage in present tense and pays it down in weed and walking shoes. The standing-up songs run first, but the wound beneath them sets the place.

• Album Review: K-POPS! by Anderson .Paak | Shatter the Standards
A soundtrack that flirts its way through seventeen tracks and only stops flirting twice, when a kid sings and a father answers.

• 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.