Political Pandora

Pandora's Vinyl: Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer is a revelation, a sonic coming-out party that arrived in 2018 like a technicolour bomb detonating across the landscape of pop music. In the pantheon of iconic queer albums, it stands as perhaps the most unflinchingly joyous celebration of pansexual identity as Monáe crafts a precise, personal, and devastating tale of intimacy.

Pandora's Vinyl: Boygenius’ The Record is a triumphant convergence of three singular voices.

Ivory, the debut record from Omar Apollo, is an autobiographical testament to the fluid boundaries of identity, genre, and desire. The record arrives as a love letter to Apollo’s Mexican American heritage and small-town roots, transforming the specificity of his experience into something universally resonant.

Pandora's Vinyl: Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin is an elegy, a confession, and a fragile bridge between despair and redemption.

Pandora's Vinyl: Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal is an album that bites hard and refuses to let go. A sprawling, genre-bending testament to survival and self-affirmation, the project is both a love letter to her Florida roots and a raw chronicle of her battles with fame, sobriety, and the relentless churn of the music industry.

Pandora's Vinyl: Lorde’s Pure Heroine is a quiet revolution, a minimalist manifesto that reshaped the contours of pop music.

Pandora's Vinyl: Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush is a kaleidoscopic meditation on time and its relentless passage.

Pandora's Vinyl: Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine is a reckoning and a reclamation.

Pandora's Vinyl: My First Car is an underrated funk/soul EP released in 2013. It is one of the earlier recordings by Vulfpeck.

Pandora's Vinyl: Lady Gaga’s latest offering is Mayhem in every sense of the word.

Pandora's Vinyl: Mac Miller's Circles is a poignant and bittersweet swan song, a final testament to an artist tragically lost in his prime.

Pandora's Vinyl: Noah Kahan's Stick Season is a poignant and introspective entry into his discography.

Pandora's Vinyl: 2024 may have been the year of Brat Summer but it is also the year of Charm Winter.

Pandora's Vinyl: With her second studio album, Caroline Polacheck has tapped into something existential and elemental.

Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft is a sonically lush journey through the labyrinth of love, identity, and self-discovery.