Star Line
In the six years since his last album, the Chicago rapper has gone through the wringer. Star Line captures a new era of transformati...
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Love Is Like
The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes to reconciliation tepi...
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Khadim
Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more sp...
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AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!
Kaytranada slips back into dancefloor mode with a slick, relatively brief instrumental album. It’s the sound of an artist casually s...
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Music for Writers
The Brooklyn guitarist moves away from his customary folk and rock roots on an album of atmospheric ambient music intended as a comp...
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Racing Mount Pleasant
Combining the panoramic sweep of post-rock with the intimacy of Midwest emo, the Ann Arbor septet’s debut is ambitious but underwhel...
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Baby
The Los Angeles singer’s second album is a spectacular new vision of soul, pop, and R&B. His surrealist, collagist approach to songw...
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Easier Said Than Done
The Tallahassee group crams hooks, angst, rumination, and studio wizardry into its debut album for Epitaph, with denser, darker song...
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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 in our archives is eligible....
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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. As a timepie...
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Sunshine and Balance Beams
The Boston band’s ninth album restores its former post-hardcore roar while folding in strings and pockets of tenderness that suit th...
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GIANT OPENING MOUTH ON THE GROUND
Armed with nothing more than a gong run through a giant subwoofer, the Mount Eerie mastermind teams up with his former Old Time Reli...
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Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The former YouTube rapper has transformed into an art-pop auteur whose ambitious vision is dragged down by some precious, overwrough...
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Sound Bath
Originally released as part of a series of sauna-themed DJ sets, the San Francisco artist’s beautifully sculpted techno record doubl...
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Surrender Instead
Kevin Patrick Sullivan takes a meta-narrative turn on his latest album, pondering career success in candid, if somewhat straightforw...
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ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST
The prolific garage-rock icon and his bandmates channel their exhaustion with the state of the world into trippy psych-rock and furi...
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Anyway
The New York chiptune group reinvents itself as indie rock lifers, alternating wistful looks back at its years in the DIY trenches w...
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FLAVAZ
The Chicago rapper brings focus, patience, and compassion to a debut album dedicated to the necessity of maintaining hope.
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Bugland
With Fire-Toolz’s Angel Marcloid, Jasamine White-Gluz pumps her shoegazing fifth album full of more textures, more ambiance, more ch...
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Secrets
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
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Black Star
The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victor...
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when i paint my masterpiece
With an unforced approach and humble wit, musician and visual artist Alexandra Levy reflects on creativity, community, and writing a...
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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 blues-i...
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Radio Libertadora!
The Brazilian funk producer invokes the spirit of class struggle on his latest album of hard-charging bruxaria, but his MCs’ horndog...
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