Album Aug 17, 2025
once more EP
The New York rapper-producer refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout…
EXPOSED VOCALS / ALBUM REVIEWS
The Listening Room: page 5
We listened. Here’s what we heard.
On the turntable
Album Aug 17, 2025
Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
Third Man’s new reissue commemorates the Portland band’s 1996 album as more than just a breakthrough moment for…
Album Aug 16, 2025
Electronic Dream 2
The original Electronic Dream recipe was a flash of brilliance so simple it’s impossible to reproduce. Fourteen years…
Album Aug 15, 2025
PILLZCASSO
Mixing the pathos of Vietnamese balladry with the rubbery lilt of vinahouse, the Hanoi-born producer’s debut studio LP…
Album Aug 15, 2025
THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
The Detroit collective’s sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital,…
Album Aug 14, 2025
Pony Express Record
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Aug 14, 2025
If Not Winter
A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the…
Album Aug 13, 2025
Volver EP
The Peru-born, Berlin-based producer and singer’s latest EP—dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community—comprises a kaleidoscopic set of songs marked…
Album Aug 12, 2025
Alfredo 2
On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration…
Album Aug 12, 2025
MASA
The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through…
Album Aug 11, 2025
Classic Love (ep)
On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song,…
Album Aug 10, 2025
Soli Deo Gloria
The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative…
Album Aug 10, 2025
Edits
The Aymara musician’s hard-drive dump of DJ edits spins together Andean folk, bro country, pop, tecnocumbia, and more.…
Album Aug 9, 2025
Rockstar Junkie
In 26 songs, the Broward County artist draws a fully realized world where narcotized Florida pain rap feels…
Album Aug 9, 2025
I Love People
Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of…
Album Aug 8, 2025
Precipice
With a shift toward cleaned-up synth-pop, the singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album leaves her standout vocal performances feeling less…
Album Aug 7, 2025
Autofiction
After nearly quitting his songwriting project, the Leeds-based musician returns with an album of gauzy indie rock. It…
Album Aug 7, 2025
Dewdrops in the Garden
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Aug 6, 2025
Cuntry
The New York songwriter’s rootsy, groovy new album is a proud and emphatically Black update on the American…
Album Aug 5, 2025
DON’T TAP THE GLASS
Tyler’s ninth studio album is a brisk, single-minded, and snappy dancefloor romp. He skitters through electro, synth-funk, disco,…
Album Aug 5, 2025
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Helming the second entry in Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It series, the Wu-Tang vet leans into his elder-statesman…
Album Aug 4, 2025
Adventure Club
Backed by a new band dubbed the Trauma Tropes, the Against Me! frontwoman pokes fun at minor indignities…
Album Aug 4, 2025
You’ll Be Alright Kid
The fresh-faced 24-year-old songwriter behind one of the year’s biggest hits, “Ordinary,” rides in on a tide of…
Album Aug 3, 2025
IIcons
The iconoclastic duo’s production is as jaw-dropping as ever, but its latest collection of techno-trance-pop club bangers veers…
