Category: Pitchfork Album Reviews

The Tigray-born, DMV-raised rapper’s latest album is a dazed survey of personal highs and lows, his stream-of-consciousness flow riding roughshod over his producers’ strangest beats.

BLACKPINK aim to re-establish group domination on a five-song EP that incorporates K-pop’s trending electronic dance influence with help from Chris Martin, Diplo, and Dr. Luke.

The indie-pop cult icons return with their first new record in three decades, delivering expectedly sweet and sticky melodies while highlighting the emotional depth beneath their twee exterior.

This posthumous album of free improv pairs the late pedal steel virtuoso with a metal-adjacent guitar-and-drums duo, to bracing, gravity-defying effect.

The nine songs on the pop showman’s first album in a decade are sleek and professional, but are so risk-averse that they mostly just sound like other, more well-known songs.

The innovative rapper comes up way short with a record that lacks fun or curiosity. Most of these songs are fried, one-note, and tailored for Rolling Loud.

The singer-songwriter’s second album spotlights her wayward, darting mind and steadily droning guitar, with help from a constellation of fellow indie rockers from New York City and the Hudson Valley.

The Atlanta rapper tightens his wild experimentation on an album that spotlights his increasingly distinct voice.

The once guarded singer-songwriter continues to open up on his latest album, reckoning with fatherhood, mortality, and his artistic vocation in revealing and uncharacteristically playful ways.

The Italian synthesist and the Norwegian saxophonist meld minds on their first collaborative release, finding common ground in the spatial qualities of their respective instruments.

A gentle companion album to Light Verse glows in the warmth of Sam Beam’s musical collective, featuring veteran collaborators, folk trio I’m With Her, and daughter Arden Beam.

In the face of the mounting omnicrisis, the songwriter crafts threadbare folk songs marked by exhaustion, resignation, and uncommon beauty.

In the face of the mounting omnicrisis, the songwriter crafts threadbare folk songs marked by exhaustion, resignation, and uncommon beauty.

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 a 2002 debut that launched a whole cultural phenomenon by borrowing the hottest R&B moves of the day to mint a shiny new pop star.

A 20th-anniversary reissue honors the years-long process of creating the quirky, masterful record and finds new freedom in its songs, packaging them with demos, live recordings, rarities, and a book.