Red Velvet: Queendom

The individual songs on the K-pop girl group’s mini-album are perfectly adequate, but the release itself never reaches the group’s former heights. When K-pop girl group Red Velvet debuted in 2014, it was unclear how […]

Lorde: Solar Power

Lorde returns with a self-aware, scaled-back album. Its holistic beauty and revelations about the natural world are often lost in the drab music. You have to act so dumb to be happy, nowadays. You can’t […]