Katherine St. Asaph
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Past articles by Katherine:
Katy B: Peace and Offerings EP Album Review
The UK dance star downshifts on her first new collection in five years, embracing smoky, understated R&B with moody arrangements and a flirty touch. → Read More
Magdalena Bay: Mercurial World Album Review
Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin’s fuzzy, rococo synthpop confections have a magic power: They sound like whatever you grew up with, whenever that was. → Read More
Chvrches: Screen Violence Album Review
On its fourth album, the Scottish trio steps back from the grandest pop aspirations and embraces a horror-movie concept without losing its signature brightness and sense of joy. → Read More
Meljoann: H.R. Album Review
The Irish DIY artist isn’t the first to note that while pop is fun, capitalism is perhaps a bit of a downer. But she’s uncommonly committed to the bit. → Read More
LoneLady: Former Things Album Review
Manchester post-punk musician Julie Campbell’s third album is dense with possibilities, whiplashing between past and future. The maximalism isn’t big-picture, but granular: busy, hyperreal instants by the millions. → Read More
MARINA: Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land Album Review
The unmistakably dramatic pop singer seeks the divine feminine, embracing a bold yet soft aesthetic that’s more effective than some of her lyrics. → Read More
Rochelle Jordan: Play With the Changes Album Review
The Toronto singer’s latest is a time capsule of moody 2010s R&B, distinguished by its introspection and near-claustrophobic melancholy. → Read More
Kylie Minogue: DISCO Album Review
The Australian pop icon has made several decades’ worth of great disco—yet her new album is a polyester-thin fabrication that sounds as if she’d only just heard of it recently. → Read More
Annie: Dark Hearts Album Review
Annie’s first album in about a decade, written and and recorded in a haunted house, collapses decades into an evocative blur. → Read More
Aluna: Renaissance Album Review
With her solo debut, AlunaGeorge’s Aluna Francis explores dance music in many forms—pop-house, dancehall, funk, Caribbean and African dance—as a personal refuge and an industry corrective. → Read More
Alanis Morissette: Such Pretty Forks in the Road Album Review
On her first album in eight years, the iconic singer-songwriter continues to take the lyrical road less traveled on a vulnerable, sedate, ballad-heavy album. → Read More
Lady Gaga: Chromatica Album Review
With incomparable flair, the pop diva returns to her dance-pop days with a fabulously fun and deeply personal album that is at turns bizarre, theatrical, and ambitious. → Read More
Rina Sawayama: SAWAYAMA Album Review
The Japanese-British pop singer’s debut is a Y2K flashback that’s as reverent of Evanescence and Korn as it is of Britney and Christina. → Read More
Låpsley: Through Water Album Review
The UK singer refines her sound into something moody and aquatic, trading a narrowly escaped adult-contemporary fate for narcotic electronic pop with ASMR undertones. → Read More
The 2020 Grammys Got Away With Saying Nothing
What scandal? → Read More
Hannah Diamond: Reflections Album Review
Heavy on vocal processing and maximalist A. G. Cook production, the PC Music star’s first full-length can’t help feeling a little anticlimactic. → Read More
Caroline Polachek: Pang Album Review
The former Chairlift singer-songwriter centers her sweeping solo debut on her powerful voice, crafting love songs about the moment of surrender, the pain preceding it, and the euphoria after. → Read More
Carla dal Forno: Look Up Sharp Album Review
The Australian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter’s second album finds a home in the shadowy space between post-punk, trip-hop, and lo-fi folk. → Read More
Kindness: Something Like a War Album Review
Adam Bainbridge’s production is always tasteful and seldom bad, but is only great when heightened by its guests. → Read More
Clairo: Immunity Album Review
On her debut album, the young viral star moves beyond the lo-fi bedroom-pop of her early recordings and into a restrained, detailed style of songwriting all her own. → Read More