A stunning accomplishment of ambitious and sometimes leftfield R&B and hip-hop, jumping between moods, genres and textures with a stream-of-consciousness flow.
The job of a pop star like Beyoncé is to push pop music forward. On her latest LP, she both pays tribute to and glosses over decades of queer plight in search of clubby new sounds.
On what might be the best album yet, The Weeknd dives head-first into '80s synth pop and post-punk for a concept LP about a radio station in purgatory.
FKA twigs' astrology-themed "mixtape" is an exhilarating crowd pleaser, proving that sometimes the best work comes when we don't take ourselves too seriously.