Paradise Now
The Nigerian British pop star’s overstuffed new album shines when it’s danceable, complex, and ferocious.
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Trainspotting
The Griselda MC makes acrobatic rapping sound easy, and the Kansas City producer’s beats are spellbindingly psychedelic. If only Rom...
Learning to Crawl
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Uncloseted
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Sedonis
The prolific Japanese musician has been synonymous with harsh noise for decades. As he nears 70, he is as relentless, precise, and p...
Surrender Instead
Kevin Patrick Sullivan takes a meta-narrative turn on his latest album, pondering career success in candid, if somewhat straightforw...
Blurrr
The UK singer-songwriter’s sixth album is spectral and breathtaking. It’s a mood record of immense solitude, beauty, and free expres...
once more EP
The New York rapper-producer refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with Osam...
Get Sunk
The National frontman’s second solo album, made in the aftermath of a depressive episode, embraces a more positive outlook but sacri...
Only Frozen Sky Anyway
On his 18th studio album, the eternally young-at-heart power-pop troubadour—joined by his old friend Jerry Harrison—turns his though...
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...
Bugland
With Fire-Toolz’s Angel Marcloid, Jasamine White-Gluz pumps her shoegazing fifth album full of more textures, more ambiance, more ch...
Evangelic Girl is a Gun
The shapeshifting pop producer and vocalist’s fourth album summons the chilly cool of trip-hop, but doesn’t do much to differentiate...
Autofiction
After nearly quitting his songwriting project, the Leeds-based musician returns with an album of gauzy indie rock. It recaptures his...
Sins Aloud
The underground Atlanta rapper continues his ascent by synthesizing a couple decades of rap into his own off-kilter, off-beat style
SISTER
The exuberant EDM-pop of the sibling duo’s new album is dulled only by the sense that it’s all been done before.
Catholic Boy
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Twilight Override
The Wilco frontman’s sprawling new solo triple album is pure Tweedy: ambivalent and unknowable and funny and compelling. It is the t...
Here for It All
The diva’s 16th studio album is thoughtfully constructed and surprisingly candid about the present condition of her voice. It’s a no...
MARS IS ELECTRIC
It’s the Los Angeles rapper’s loosest, dreamiest dispatch yet, an enveloping and atmospheric collection that constantly comes togeth...
WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR?
The Virginia rapper’s latest album boasts wrecking-ball momentum, fist-shaking incredulity, and the finesse required to fold in a mo...
Black Star
The Ghanaian American singer’s latest album is a celebration of Black diasporic dance music—and a hedonistic, pleasure-soaked victor...
Negotiations EP
On an EP of icy, chrome-plated pop that considers the body and mind as glitching machines, the Los Angeles musician seeks out a soft...
Tether
On a striking debut LP, the Los Angeles musician’s intricate acoustic arrangements and intimate lyrics attest to the strength of her...