Category: Pitchfork Album Reviews

Quavo feels like an afterthought on his own new solo album, which suffers from phoned-in Pharrell beats, weak features, and exhausting levels of brand placement.

The singer and songwriter’s sprawling, meticulously polished new album stretches out with swoony ballads, cinematic strings, and timeless quiet storm.

The South London artist channels Disney soundtrack tropes into claustrophobic strings and drones, while a handful of vocal tracks hint darkly at real-world family drama.

The Boston hardcore band aims at wider audiences on a sweetly melodic breakup album that burns as hot and fast as the ill-fated relationship it describes.

The indie rock songwriter’s latest album is menacing and ambitious, overflowing with quotable lyrics and the feverish energy of something about to fall apart.

You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel.

The UK avant-dance producer has spent recent years wandering pop music’s hinterlands, but he sounds reenergized on his latest amalgam of ’80s-tinged club, pop, and R&B.

As it flashes from synth-pop experimentation to introspective balladry to heavy distortion, the model and actress’ debut LP is both intriguing and exhausting.

The Florist musician’s latest ambient release blends her intuitive, associative songwriting with her increasingly immersive voice as a composer for modular synth.

The Miami experimental dance duo’s new album pushes their capricious, explosive mix of bouyon, synth-pop, and electroclash to anxious extremes.

For decades, industrial metal titan Justin K. Broadrick screamed so hard that it shredded his insides. He softens his attack on the band’s penultimate album, but they’re not going out gently.

The North Carolina folk musician pulls from centuries-old ballads and blues standards for a meditative set full of drifters, sailors, and wistful travelers.

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 New York duo’s brilliant second album, a synthesis of shoegaze, ambient, and trip-hop that permeated the boundaries of rock and electronic music.

A 104-track box set fleshes out the seemingly out-of-nowhere brilliance of Elvis Costello’s debut: a portrait of the artist as a fidgety young man, trying on literal and figurative hats.

Pop and art, stereo and mono, Britain and America, John and Paul: An expansive reissue of one of the 20th century’s most important works of art suspends its heady contradictions in a state of perfect flux.