Category: Pitchfork Album Reviews

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 UK singer’s second album, a fascinatingly normal early-aughts pop record from a woman whose still waters run deep.

Trent Reznor reconfigures his band and his music for a sort of live remix album that is unfussy, dancey, and, if you can believe it, fun.

Buckle up for M.I.A.’s surprisingly moving Christian album, a bass-driven, gospel-infused testament to personal salvation.

The English singer reunites with an old collaborator and digs deeper into his South Asian musical inheritance, but his fifth album of R&B-laced pop feels only slightly more realized.

The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.

On a collaborative record where slurred Mandarin intersects with stuttering synths, the Chengdu rapper and his mentor interrogate the disconnect between social life and our internal worlds.

Stretching herself across dembow, electro pop, and even surf rock, the Dominican firebrand vies for stardom, keeps it weird, and shows how far she’s come.

On his lethargic new album, the controversy-courting Georgia rapper has never sounded less interesting, engaged, or inspired.

Fourteen years after the Manchester alt rockers called it quits, they return with a second album of outsized yearning and arena-scaled ambitions, with the sincerity turned up to 11.

For their 10th album, the Detroit electro-punks harness irony, sincerity, and an expanded sample library to celebrate the places where systems fail.

The Florida rapper never breaks character: He’s a radio hitmaker, and the high-rolling highlights on his new mixtape are designed to be absorbed by osmosis.

The New York indie-pop band captures the contradictions of “laptop twee” on a debut LP whose wiggly open world feels shadowed by a sense of innocence lost.

The SoCal rapper pushes the synthesis of rage rap and alt rock to thunderous new extremes on his latest album, a high-energy tribute to perseverance in the face of adversity.

Kyle Thomas returns to his garage-punk roots on his latest record, adding newfound personality and texture to the primal, fuzzed-out sound of his early releases.

Nate Garrett ends his inspirational, soul-stirring metal project on a high note with the heaviest music he’s made in years.

The Japanese noise duo’s third album is its most crushing release, pairing sharper production with punishing layers of noise and a few forays into slower, sludgier territory.

The California-born, New York-based artist may be better known for his online persona, but his full-length debut spotlights his increasingly compelling, perpetually heartbroken bedroom-pop.

The Haitian American singer-songwriter keeps the mood hushed and hazy on his second album, channeling the experimental R&B canon in songs that toggle between sincerity and opacity.