That year, American-Statesman music writer Deborah Sengupta Stith wrote one of the first features on the new group ... of their album. "'Chronicles of a Diamond' by Black Pumas will go down ...

and Black Pumas — which doesn’t leave much wiggle room in the eight-entry field of Album of the Year. But that is enough space to nod to Chappell Roan’s meteoric rise and the hold that Brat ...