Category: Pitchfork Album Reviews

Over 15 years after their original Coke Wave run, French Montana and Max B prove the classic formula still goes a long way.

On a brief new project, the Detroit rapper finds strange, adventurous territory on the outskirts of his hard-nosed sound.

The Minneapolis hardcore band’s debut is fearsomely loud and more timely than ever. Their protest punk hits like a baseball bat.

The Liberian American songwriter’s debut confronts his complex upbringing, combining millennial indie-folk influences with his poignant perspective on war, identity, and memory.

With a lineup of experimental rock veterans, the Detroit sextet takes a psychedelic voyage that favors the collective over the individual.

Under his latest alias, Vancouver electronic musician Tanner Matt contorts smeared synth tones and diffuse beats into an unsettling, opalescent album of minimalist ambient techno.

Having chosen family over music in his early 20s, the Quebec artist returns to songwriting more than a decade later, channeling spiritual yearning in spectral folk.

The massively successful songwriter offers two versions of his 25-song new album: solo and full-band. At his best, he shows he’s learning to paint on a larger canvas.

On his New Year’s Day mixtape, the Atlanta artist pursues an idiosyncratic fusion of romance, spiritual inspiration, pain rap, and plugg.

The rising Martinican star’s third album unites ballads with dancefloor heaters and makes space for a plethora of collaborators in and beyond the island’s shatta rap scene.

The UK singer-producer combines nimble vocals and innovative arrangements with the compressed drama of Y2K dance pop; her ear for detail enlivens familiar sounds.

The mischievous UK duo reconsiders its 2024 self-titled LP with an uneven slate of remixes and new tracks, mixing moments of impressive boldness into a string of otherwise unremarkable exercises.

The second album from experimental musician Ulla Straus’ ambient folk project is intimate and untethered to reality.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the beautifully labyrinthian 1981 album from a prog-rock institution in search of continuous evolution.

The emo rapper-producer’s full-length debut cycles between weird ideas and accessible cuts, collaging stylistic landmarks from the early 1990s to the MySpace era to Lil Peep.