On the Auckland indie rockers’ most incisive album, bulletproof hooks cloak gnarly emotional realities and cheerfulness always comes...

Irish songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s new album overflows with comedy, tragedy, and self-lacerating wit. It’s a bold statemen...

Following a move from the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast of Florida, the electronic producer pushes his low-key deep house in a...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....

Behind its dollar-bin sleeve, the Texan songwriter’s new album plays like a workingman’s spaghetti Western drama.

After the lush, expansive contours of 2022’s Wild Loneliness, the Chapel Hill indie lifers sharpen their hooks on an energizing coll...

The cosmic folk band’s sixth album is their first as a trio. But they still sound loose, chaotic, and intuitive as ever.

Twenty-five years ago, a masked nu-metal band from Iowa crashed into the mainstream wearing jumpsuits and banging on oil drums. Thei...

Conditioned by the awestruck pleasure of falling in love, and showcasing Meg Duffy’s effortlessly acrobatic guitar playing, their la...

With its 13th and final album, the trio is determined to go out with a bang, once more mapping dance music’s energies onto tender fe...

The Colombian musician trades her typically fantastical subject matter for an album steeped in the immediacy of desire. The theme ma...

The Icelandic singer not only invokes the traditions of the Great American Songbook; she indulges, interrogates, and goofs on them,...

The band that helped define the 2010s “emo revival” cements its move in a heavier, proggier direction, centering technical mastery a...

In 26 songs, the Broward County artist draws a fully realized world where narcotized Florida pain rap feels both meditative and terr...

In the six years since his last album, the Chicago rapper has gone through the wringer. Star Line captures a new era of transformati...

On her debut album, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter—who co-wrote with Gracie Abrams—pokes fun at emotional desperation. Her songs...

The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes to reconciliation tepi...

Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more sp...

The Boston band’s ninth album restores its former post-hardcore roar while folding in strings and pockets of tenderness that suit th...

The New York singer poses life’s big questions in the form of exuberant, classic pop-rock. His new album sounds like it could’ve bee...

Kaytranada slips back into dancefloor mode with a slick, relatively brief instrumental album. It’s the sound of an artist casually s...

Drolly titled and curiously sequenced, the London electro-pop quintet’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humor, win...