Album Sep 2, 2025
Star Line
In the six years since his last album, the Chicago rapper has gone through the wringer. Star Line…
EXPOSED VOCALS / ALBUM REVIEWS
The Listening Room: page 4
We listened. Here’s what we heard.
On the turntable
Album Sep 1, 2025
Love Is Like
The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes…
Album Sep 1, 2025
Khadim
Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an…
Album Aug 31, 2025
AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!
Kaytranada slips back into dancefloor mode with a slick, relatively brief instrumental album. It’s the sound of an…
Album Aug 30, 2025
Music for Writers
The Brooklyn guitarist moves away from his customary folk and rock roots on an album of atmospheric ambient…
Album Aug 30, 2025
Racing Mount Pleasant
Combining the panoramic sweep of post-rock with the intimacy of Midwest emo, the Ann Arbor septet’s debut is…
Album Aug 29, 2025
Baby
The Los Angeles singer’s second album is a spectacular new vision of soul, pop, and R&B. His surrealist,…
Album Aug 29, 2025
Easier Said Than Done
The Tallahassee group crams hooks, angst, rumination, and studio wizardry into its debut album for Epitaph, with denser,…
Album Aug 28, 2025
Songs in the Key of Z
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Aug 27, 2025
Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)
Radiohead’s second official live album is a kinetic recreation of almost every song on their transitional sixth record.…
Album Aug 27, 2025
Sunshine and Balance Beams
The Boston band’s ninth album restores its former post-hardcore roar while folding in strings and pockets of tenderness…
Album Aug 26, 2025
GIANT OPENING MOUTH ON THE GROUND
Armed with nothing more than a gong run through a giant subwoofer, the Mount Eerie mastermind teams up…
Album Aug 25, 2025
Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The former YouTube rapper has transformed into an art-pop auteur whose ambitious vision is dragged down by some…
Album Aug 25, 2025
Sound Bath
Originally released as part of a series of sauna-themed DJ sets, the San Francisco artist’s beautifully sculpted techno…
Album Aug 24, 2025
Surrender Instead
Kevin Patrick Sullivan takes a meta-narrative turn on his latest album, pondering career success in candid, if somewhat…
Album Aug 24, 2025
ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST
The prolific garage-rock icon and his bandmates channel their exhaustion with the state of the world into trippy…
Album Aug 23, 2025
Anyway
The New York chiptune group reinvents itself as indie rock lifers, alternating wistful looks back at its years…
Album Aug 22, 2025
FLAVAZ
The Chicago rapper brings focus, patience, and compassion to a debut album dedicated to the necessity of maintaining…
Album Aug 22, 2025
Bugland
With Fire-Toolz’s Angel Marcloid, Jasamine White-Gluz pumps her shoegazing fifth album full of more textures, more ambiance, more…
Album Aug 21, 2025
Secrets
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Aug 20, 2025
Black Star
The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victory…
Album Aug 20, 2025
when i paint my masterpiece
With an unforced approach and humble wit, musician and visual artist Alexandra Levy reflects on creativity, community, and…
Album Aug 19, 2025
No Rain, No Flowers
After a year of professional frustrations, the duo—with help from a suite of collaborators—trades its gnarled blues-rock for…
Album Aug 19, 2025
Radio Libertadora!
The Brazilian funk producer invokes the spirit of class struggle on his latest album of hard-charging bruxaria, but…
