Album Reviews

Future‘s desolate sing-croon is partially responsible for swaths of chart-topping SoundCloud rap, a generation of hitmakers prioritizing depression over bluster, moods over bars and self-exploration over braggadocio. However, a whopping 19(!) Future releases since his 2012 breakthrough,Pluto, it’s not exactly certain how andifthe elder statesmen of contemporary Xanax blues fits …

Untethered from Dave Navarro’s walloping guitar riffs, Perry Farrell‘s latest solo album feels like a swirling, ADHD fever dream — and that’s not entirely a bad thing. Farrell has always been a bit like alternative rock’s David Lee Roth, a consummate party animal unafraid of pursuing his wildest flights of …