Dad rock for Gen X takes on many different forms, meaning a variety in classic albums. It could mean a holdover act from the 1970s that finally found its groove in the early 1980s. It could be a hard ...

A work of "high art": Stephen Thompson calls the album a work of craft and care. He says "Reliquia" mutates from an orchestral piece into an electro-pop reverie, with a tear-jerking piano interlude ...

At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks for the best albums of 2025, the mere existence of the record we'd eventually name our No. 1 – in a landslide, it must be said ...