The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.
—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
His first experiments at 170 BPM took the form of ambient music, a new way to frame his signature melodies and pads removed from the 4/4 thump of techno and house.
And since leaving prison in early January, the preacher has wasted no time in spreading his gospel in a tranche of new songs published on his social media platforms.
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Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
Unlike many of his Latin pop predecessors, who released songs in English in hopes of broadening their audience, the singer has not recorded any full-length English material across his six studio albums.
For progressives, the undisputed master of the viral protest song is the thirty-three-year-old folksinger Jesse Welles, who makes videos of himself standing in a field, singing clever miniature tunes about the hypocrisies of the health-care industry, tech billionaires, ICE.
—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
Set up your streaming ahead of time and get caught up on Bad Bunny's best tunes before his halftime performance.
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