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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 its young prodigy, E...
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Electronic Dream 2
The original Electronic Dream recipe was a flash of brilliance so simple it’s impossible to reproduce. Fourteen years later, the seq...
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PILLZCASSO
Mixing the pathos of Vietnamese balladry with the rubbery lilt of vinahouse, the Hanoi-born producer’s debut studio LP synthesizes a...
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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, and filled with...
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Pony Express Record
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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If Not Winter
A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in chal...
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Volver EP
The Peru-born, Berlin-based producer and singer’s latest EP—dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community—comprises a kaleidoscopic set of songs...
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Alfredo 2
On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the ra...
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MASA
The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, b...
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Classic Love (ep)
On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song, revisits Constant Hitma...
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Soli Deo Gloria
The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative as ev...
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Edits
The Aymara musician’s hard-drive dump of DJ edits spins together Andean folk, bro country, pop, tecnocumbia, and more. Their hyper-c...
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Rockstar Junkie
In 26 songs, the Broward County artist draws a fully realized world where narcotized Florida pain rap feels both meditative and terr...
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I Love People
Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange...
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Precipice
With a shift toward cleaned-up synth-pop, the singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album leaves her standout vocal performances feeling...
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Autofiction
After nearly quitting his songwriting project, the Leeds-based musician returns with an album of gauzy indie rock. It recaptures his...
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Dewdrops in the Garden
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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Cuntry
The New York songwriter’s rootsy, groovy new album is a proud and emphatically Black update on the American folk tradition of antica...
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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, an...
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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 status—which is preci...
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Adventure Club
Backed by a new band dubbed the Trauma Tropes, the Against Me! frontwoman pokes fun at minor indignities and major assholes in a set...
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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 post-Hozier Epic Sad...
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IIcons
The iconoclastic duo’s production is as jaw-dropping as ever, but its latest collection of techno-trance-pop club bangers veers curi...
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