Pitchfork Album Reviews

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…

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.

The animated band’s ninth album gathers collaborators both living and departed for a characteristically audacious monument to grief, India, and archival memory.

The Big Thief guitarist lightly updates his solo sound, but he still fares best as a traditional country-rock troubadour.

As the Bug, the UK producer has made some of the weightiest dub and dancehall ever committed to tape. But this reissued LP of oppressively wintry dark ambient is just as heavy.

Reuniting with some old collaborators, the horror legend crafts a spiritual sequel to 1998’s Hellbilly Deluxe—but this time, the demon is speeding on cruise control.

Mitski’s homebound eighth album is both theatrical and restrained, responding to her newfound visibility with sober reflections on loneliness and delusion.

On a sprawling, 112-track treatise, the semi-anonymous samplers hide a compelling statement in a clusterfuck weighed down by conflicting ambitions.

The London saxophonist’s singular sound seems to create its own windy weather. His new album charts a strange course from synth ambiance to industrial-grade sub-bass.

The indie-punk band expands into softer palettes and slower tempos on an album that captures the restlessness and newfound wisdom of being in your late 20s.