Spectrum Culture

• Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain | Spectrum Culture | Aug. 5, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
Shania Twain sounds like she's having a ball at times on the project, proving that music stems from the singer's determination to flow with the spirit, the soul and effervescent emotions.

• WILLOW: The Thread | Spectrum Culture | Aug. 3, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
The Thread stands as a testament to Willow Smith’s fearless artistic transformation, demanding that the internet age slow down and listen closely to the silent frequencies connecting humanity.

• The Temper Trap: Sungazer | Spectrum Culture | July 28, 2026, 5:03 a.m.
Sungazer is a mature, considered rumination on a more complicated adult reality, a stark contrast to the Temper Trap’s wide-eyed, innocent breakthrough singles from 2009.

• The Strokes: Reality Awaits | Spectrum Culture | July 30, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
The Strokes’ Reality Awaits may prove to be too obscure and, improbably, thorny for the sort of immediate pleasure that the band used to create so effortlessly.

• The Garden: Bootleg | Spectrum Culture | July 29, 2026, 5 a.m.
Bootleg feels the same way every album by the Garden feels: like two guys who don’t care if other people like the music they make, because they like the music they’re making.

• Rick Ross: Set In Stone | Spectrum Culture | July 27, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
Set In Stone is an expensive-sounding album, but one that often also illustrates the difference between having money and displaying good taste or judgment.

• The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow | Spectrum Culture | Feb. 10, 2025, 6:06 a.m.
Hurry Up Tomorrow feels like Tesfaye’s attempt at summing up everything that was great about the Weeknd as a project, but unfortunately, it’s clear that no one ever brought a knife to the recording sessions.

• FKA twigs: Eusexua | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 29, 2025, 6:04 a.m.
Using classic dancefloor sounds, FKA twigs captures the volatile energy of a night at the club.

• Ethel Cain: Perverts | Spectrum Culture | Jan. 10, 2025, 6:06 a.m.
If Preacher’s Daughter was the sound of someone barely holding things together, then Perverts is the sound of that same person letting things fall apart completely.

• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes | Spectrum Culture | Nov. 15, 2024, 6:04 a.m.
Michael Kiwanuka has always been most comfortable in the reflective quiet that sits beneath even his rowdiest cuts. Small Changes finally sees him lead with it.