Spellling’s Portrait of My Heart Is a Surreal, Soul-Baring Leap into Rock Elegance
Spellling doesn’t follow trends—she conjures worlds. On her fourth studio album, Portrait of My Heart, the Oakland-based shapeshifte...
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Scowl – Are We All Angels (Album Review)
Scowl doesn’t just flirt with evolution on Are We All Angels—they dive in headfirst. The Santa Cruz hardcore unit, once known for fa...
Album Review: Barker – Stochastic Drift
With Stochastic Drift, Barker doesn’t just return—he evolves. Released in April 2025 via Smalltown Supersound, this sophomore album...
Album Review: Sudan Archives – The BPM
A fearless leap onto the dancefloor — full of invention, impulse, and identity in motion In a music landscape where artistic reinven...
Momma’s Welcome to My Blue Sky Is a Coming-of-Age Dream Drenched in Grunge Pop Glory
Brooklyn duo Momma have always had a knack for fusing vulnerability with distortion, but on their latest album Welcome to My Blue Sk...
Shakespeare Rewired: Solemn Pledge’s Rock Opera Redefines Romeo and Juliet
Solemn Pledge, the rock duo of Maria Genevieve Elia and Michael Justin Lee, has reimagined Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy as a full-...
Album Review: Geese – Getting Killed
“Desperation looks good on them.” That could easily be a pull quote, a tagline, or even a thesis statement for Geese’s d...
Album Review: Casey Dienel — My Heart Is an Outlaw
A lush, late-night dispatch from an artist who stepped away, looked inward, and returned unafraid “I quit the idea of me.”— Casey Di...
Album Review: Madison Cunningham – Ace
An exquisite, emotionally layered pivot from guitar prodigy to chamber-pop auteur If Madison Cunningham wanted to prove that mastery...
feeo – Goodness: An Album Review by Exposed Vocals
At just 22, feeo introduced herself as an old soul with the weight of the world in her voice. Now, four years and several haunting r...
Animal Poem
Through her graceful poetry and pristine instrumentation, the folk singer delivers indictments of modern indignities alongside momen...
Swallow the Knife
Songwriter Dana Foote’s new album channels messy experiences of depression and recovery into a tight, crunchy indie-rock package.
Animal Hospital
The Chicago indie rockers’ latest record is a tangled nest of wiry post-punk interwoven with strands of noise and pitch-black cabare...
Aurora
The New York band strikes a balance between its customary post-punk and brighter, more melodic sounds on an album whose lyrical preo...
RA.1000
Terre Thaemlitz’s new Resident Advisor mix, echoing a performance in Brooklyn this month, interrogates Israeli genocide, American co...
Guitar
On his first non-instrumental album since 2019, the 35-year-old songwriter keeps it real simple. These endearing and affecting songs...
The Passionate Ones
Marcus Brown’s remarkable new album beefs up his airy, omnivorous R&B, searching for a sound tough enough to sustain the daily grind...
Hard Headed Woman
On her latest record, the Nashville songwriter mostly returns to classic country form. She plays to her strengths, mixes pathos with...
August
The New York guitar-bass-drums trio pairs the meticulous arrangements of ’90s post-rock—and the hazy vibes of bands like Khruangbin—...
Burnover
The Vermont singer’s pretty great second album has got wit, romance, and sublime songwriting. It’s an unassuming collection of tunes...
Fully Completely
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Ain’t in It for My Health
The young traditionalist channels a bygone era of country radio. He’s not trying to reinvent the wheel; quite the opposite.
Flux
Reuniting with co-producer Richard X, Alison Goldfrapp taps into airbrushed textures, shivery synth grooves, and sensual cosmic awak...
Gush
On her most social, libidinal collection of songs to date, the Los Angeles musician combines cerebral synthesis with beats inflected...