Intermission EP
The Australian egg punks present a leaner version of their scuzzy post-punk on an EP filled with programmed drums and rhythmic riffs...
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In-depth album reviews built around a one-on-one conversation with the artist, going track by track through the sound, story, process, and meaning behind the project.
MARS IS ELECTRIC
It’s the Los Angeles rapper’s loosest, dreamiest dispatch yet, an enveloping and atmospheric collection that constantly comes togeth...
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Tropicoqueta
The urbano star’s tender and expansive new album is a reverent tribute to generations of Latin music and the Latina entertainers who...
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Made in Paris
The influential beatmaker’s new album is exactly what you’ve come to expect, now with a French twist.
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The Way of Time
Sampling a vintage radio play adapted from a 1926 novel about rural life, the Norwegian producer threads unsettling questions about...
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Sedonis
The prolific Japanese musician has been synonymous with harsh noise for decades. As he nears 70, he is as relentless, precise, and p...
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Metallic Life Review
Mining its deep archive of sampled metal objects—gongs, cheese graters, nitrous containers—the experimental duo’s reflective new con...
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The Shadow of the Guest
The veteran New York trio continues its rich history of remixing and revising with a humdrum selection of choral renditions and ASMR...
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Virgin
Lorde’s fourth album returns to the digital, physical sound of Melodrama. While rooted somewhat in her past, it’s a gritty, tender,...
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A Tropical Entropy
The exceptional debut album from the Miami producer captures the lively, menacing, and sensual sounds of his home—a dembow pop recor...
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Switcheroo
The eccentric Los Angeles songwriter reinvents herself with a kooky, conceptual, synth-filled dance record.
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STARS
The Chicago musician mashes up metal, showtunes, drum’n’bass, prog-rock, and more, leveling up their overstimulating compositions wi...
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Tracks II: The Lost Albums
The sequel to 1998’s outtakes collection gathers a bounty of unreleased and largely unknown material. Offering unexpected, never-bef...
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Fantología I
A compilation from Ecuadorean ambient label +ambién looks at hauntology—think Burial, nostalgia, melancholy, dead-end futurism—throu...
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American Heart
Benson Boone’s flair can’t make up for the fact that his songs aren’t very good and that he lacks a unique point of view.
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Planting by the Signs
On her third album, the singer-songwriter depicts her Kentucky home with tactile clarity, populating her roots-rock songs with wry o...
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The Universe Will Take Care of You
The British producer and Polish clarinetist take a playful approach on their collaborative album, their compositions buoyed by the p...
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VICTORY
All these years later, Rick’s sing-songy, slick-worded autofiction still sounds like he’s walking on air.
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GULP
The Wisdom Teeth co-founder’s second album picks up the baton of the ongoing minimal revival, but his bite-sized house music is suff...
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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....
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Load (Remastered Deluxe Box Set)
Messy, overheated, self-indulgent, divisive, and literally seminal, Metallica’s 1996 album lacked only a colossal 301-song, five-LP,...
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Raspberry Moon
On their first LP written as a full band, the New York shoegazers swing for the rafters. It’s their most polished and ambitious albu...
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INFINITY CLUB II
Back for round two, the Toronto DJ’s thrilling bashment rave tracks temper turbo-charged riddims and booming bars with frosty electr...
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Se Amaba Así
On their second album of smoldering synth-pop, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle examine a moment of friction in their own r...
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