Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and ...

With its dreamy, scaled-back production, the album ends up presenting an understated pronatalism—a rare work of contemporary art that portrays motherhood in an almost exclusively positive light ...

The opening song on Patterns in Repeat, Laura Marling’s eighth solo album, is a little miracle: a song from a parent to a child that conveys all the tenderness of unconditional love without being ...