Album Jul 18, 2025
Intermission EP
The Australian egg punks present a leaner version of their scuzzy post-punk on an EP filled with programmed…
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The Listening Room: page 7
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Album Jul 18, 2025
MARS IS ELECTRIC
It’s the Los Angeles rapper’s loosest, dreamiest dispatch yet, an enveloping and atmospheric collection that constantly comes together…
Album Jul 17, 2025
Tropicoqueta
The urbano star’s tender and expansive new album is a reverent tribute to generations of Latin music and…
Album Jul 16, 2025
Made in Paris
The influential beatmaker’s new album is exactly what you’ve come to expect, now with a French twist.
Album Jul 16, 2025
The Way of Time
Sampling a vintage radio play adapted from a 1926 novel about rural life, the Norwegian producer threads unsettling…
Album Jul 15, 2025
Sedonis
The prolific Japanese musician has been synonymous with harsh noise for decades. As he nears 70, he is…
Album Jul 15, 2025
Metallic Life Review
Mining its deep archive of sampled metal objects—gongs, cheese graters, nitrous containers—the experimental duo’s reflective new concept album…
Album Jul 14, 2025
The Shadow of the Guest
The veteran New York trio continues its rich history of remixing and revising with a humdrum selection of…
Album Jul 13, 2025
Virgin
Lorde’s fourth album returns to the digital, physical sound of Melodrama. While rooted somewhat in her past, it’s…
Album Jul 13, 2025
A Tropical Entropy
The exceptional debut album from the Miami producer captures the lively, menacing, and sensual sounds of his home—a…
Album Jul 12, 2025
Switcheroo
The eccentric Los Angeles songwriter reinvents herself with a kooky, conceptual, synth-filled dance record.
Album Jul 11, 2025
STARS
The Chicago musician mashes up metal, showtunes, drum’n’bass, prog-rock, and more, leveling up their overstimulating compositions with a…
Album Jul 11, 2025
Tracks II: The Lost Albums
The sequel to 1998’s outtakes collection gathers a bounty of unreleased and largely unknown material. Offering unexpected, never-before-seen…
Album Jul 10, 2025
Fantología I
A compilation from Ecuadorean ambient label +ambién looks at hauntology—think Burial, nostalgia, melancholy, dead-end futurism—through a specifically Latin…
Album Jul 10, 2025
American Heart
Benson Boone’s flair can’t make up for the fact that his songs aren’t very good and that he…
Album Jul 9, 2025
Planting by the Signs
On her third album, the singer-songwriter depicts her Kentucky home with tactile clarity, populating her roots-rock songs with…
Album Jul 8, 2025
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…
Album Jul 8, 2025
VICTORY
All these years later, Rick’s sing-songy, slick-worded autofiction still sounds like he’s walking on air.
Album Jul 7, 2025
GULP
The Wisdom Teeth co-founder’s second album picks up the baton of the ongoing minimal revival, but his bite-sized…
Album Jul 6, 2025
Uncloseted
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Jul 6, 2025
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, 15-CD, four-DVD…
Album Jul 5, 2025
Raspberry Moon
On their first LP written as a full band, the New York shoegazers swing for the rafters. It’s…
Album Jul 5, 2025
INFINITY CLUB II
Back for round two, the Toronto DJ’s thrilling bashment rave tracks temper turbo-charged riddims and booming bars with…
Album Jul 4, 2025
Se Amaba Así
On their second album of smoldering synth-pop, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle examine a moment of…
