Documentaries brought us closer to musicians this year, and it wasn’t always pretty. By Jon Pareles The pandemic, it seems, sent certain enterprising music lovers into editing rooms. For those still ...
In a year saturated with excellent releases — luminous false starts idling in the shadow of this never-ending global tragedy — projects that maximized ferality won me over. Identifying and rejecting ...
“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...