From Nicki Minaj to Blood Orange, the Best Albums of the Summer Were Exercises in Reinvention

From Nicki Minaj to Blood Orange, the Best Albums of the Summer Were Exercises in Reinvention

Summer is a time of intense polarities, of feverish abandon and earned languor. There’s heat and purpose waiting to be seized in those unexpected, life-altering summer nights: on the dancefloor, at the bar, among friends. There’s equal chill, though, in the loss and grief that surface: historically, fatalities spike during hotter months. Yet summer, at …