On their third album this year, the New Orleans garage rockers embrace conflicting emotions and clashing sounds, balancing hard-charging rave-ups with exploratory tape experiments.
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On its first live album, the New York trio recasts a quarter-century of rock songs for strings, piano, and acoustic guitar, highlighting the ache and vulnerability at the heart of its music.
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So post-ironic it’s deadass, the Toronto songwriter’s debut renders a thoroughly modern affect with rare authenticity.
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Too challenging to qualify as radio rock, the Los Angeles songwriter’s cloudy, lo-fi grunge is stuffed with ’90s references and opaque secrets.
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With delirious melodic instincts, the Bronx rapper’s new tape evokes Young Money-era swag on a SoundCloud budget.
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The Lisbon trio trades the laid-back feel of its earlier, more disco-indebted work for skeletal machine minimalism, twisted sequencer fugues, and lo-fi ambient that conceals more than it reveals.
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On her debut album, the musician combines her family’s Jamaican mento legacy with her personal love of folk for a set of graceful, winningly direct songs.
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Experimental artist Felicia Chen’s high-contrast compositions unite whispers and shrieks, intimate acoustics and inhuman distortion.
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Unlike the composer’s typically massive, sprawling drones, these pieces for pipe organ—accompanied by guitarist Stephen O’Malley and cellist Lucy Railton—are finely filigreed miniatures.
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On a new EP, the Ohio singer-songwriter writes with focus and immediacy, their lyrics blending a love of chaos with an eye toward long-term stability.
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The perennially unserious duo’s embrace of AI is the least of the problems weighing down its latest album (and 55-track bonus compendium) of post-ironic club pop.
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A newly unearthed live performance, originally intended for broadcast on NPR, showcases a unique and transitional moment for the free-jazz pianist’s ensemble.
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Featuring heartbroken vocal performances and stripped of frills like basslines or reverb, the Manchester producer’s latest album of bruised electronica is his starkest and most forlorn yet.
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The “Stop the Wedding!” singer’s vintage-styled new album combines stately pop classicism and exuberant ’70s pastiche.
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The Disintegration Loops made the composer’s name synonymous with weighty meditations on memory and loss, but his latest album—calm, focused, tender—is a reminder of his fondness for beauty.
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The British electronic producer formerly known as Blue Daisy and Black Dahlia unveils a new solo venture and a menacing new sound heavy on distorted drum machines and blown-out bass.
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Folding together post-industrial dissonance, globe-trotting influences, and stinging social commentary, the Australian musician’s new album isn’t pulling punches.
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Part one of Drake’s comeback trilogy is an attempt to settle the score. He does not succeed.
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The Belgian trio brightens up its sound a smidge on its second album, filled with heady, psychedelic songs that house a tenuous optimism.
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Weaving between Bon Iver features and electronic experimentation, the Minnesota musician and actor’s new album sounds a note of community and composure in a tumultuous world.
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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 look back at the alt-rock band’s 1993 acoustic set, a swan song for the sensitive bohemians—and the biggest hit they’d ever release.
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The guitarist and his fellow improvisers demonstrate mind-meld rapport and roof-raising intensity on a pair of side-long cuts recorded at L.A.’s Lodge Room last summer.
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Blending Persian and American folk instrumentation, the alt-pop songwriter and producer expands his signature sound on a sharply focused third solo album.
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With elegant, modern takes on 1980s soft ballads and sophistipop, the former Disney Channel actor’s debut LP is as stylish as it is easygoing.
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Conceptual mastermind or serial con man? On his latest album of shaky rapping and abstract interludes, the multi-hyphenate creator finds a strange middle ground.
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The Norwegian duo’s latest EP, inspired by the final track of its 2025 album, forgoes straightforward plots for stranger, smudgier snapshots of life on the precipice of adulthood.
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Working with Aaron Dessner, the singer-songwriter balances contentment and mortal anxiety on the most cohesive and tuneful album of his career.
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On her debut album, the New York singer-songwriter combines bedroom-pop vulnerability and electronic flourishes to dissect the end of a decade-long relationship.
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The inspiring and idiosyncratic debut from a 53-year-old priest in Greece pinballs between drone metal and techno Christmas carols, field recordings and hymns.
