Album Jul 3, 2025
I quit
On their fourth album, Haim break free from the shackles of whatever and cruise right down the middle…
EXPOSED VOCALS / ALBUM REVIEWS
The Listening Room: page 8
We listened. Here’s what we heard.
On the turntable
Album Jul 3, 2025
Desert Window
The English musician’s latest ambient pop experiments encase straightforward moments of ethereal beauty between vast expanses of understated…
Album Jul 2, 2025
Tether
On a striking debut LP, the Los Angeles musician’s intricate acoustic arrangements and intimate lyrics attest to the…
Album Jul 1, 2025
Phantom Island
The prolific Australian group lavishes its gently trippy compositions with orchestral arrangements. The results are often frustrating and…
Album Jul 1, 2025
Lateral / Luminal
The duo’s debut collaborative albums use ambient and dream pop to channel hard-to-articulate feelings, but the concept feels…
Album Jun 30, 2025
Aseurai
The New Zealand band’s debut album is a pop record that is alternately chill, cosmic, and cosmopolitan, led…
Album Jun 30, 2025
A Room With a Door That Closes
On her second album, the New York singer-songwriter searches for self-worth while impelling elements of folk, neo-soul, and…
Album Jun 29, 2025
Learning to Crawl
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not…
Album Jun 28, 2025
Soft New Magic Dream
The Pittsburgh synth misfits reopen the haunted funhouse with their first album since 2018. The ooky-spooky hypnagogia hasn’t…
Album Jun 28, 2025
Hymnal
Armed with strings, laptop, and a lyric-selecting slime mold, the Berlin-based composer catapults classical minimalism into the future.…
Album Jun 27, 2025
Lotus
The UK rapper battled self-doubt and legal woes in the run-up to her sixth album; now, however, framed…
Album Jun 26, 2025
Ripped and Torn
The young Chicago band crams its debut album with streamlined hooks and a reverence for pop, punk, and…
Album Jun 26, 2025
Tha Carter VI
Seemingly written and recorded in a very expensive vacuum, the sixth chapter of Wayne’s legacy-making album series would…
Album Jun 25, 2025
PRINCESS OF POWER
The Welsh pop singer’s sixth album returns to established themes of feminist empowerment and disco-pop maximalism. It often…
Album Jun 25, 2025
SALT
As its catalog comes to streaming, an overlooked band from the thriving 1980s Boston indie rock scene gets…
Album Jun 24, 2025
I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away
On his most majestic and sincere record yet, the Texas guitarist plays with grace and power, evoking the…
Album Jun 23, 2025
Church of Kidane Mehret
The latest in the always interesting batch of reissues from the Ethiopian pianist focuses on her most explicitly…
Album Jun 23, 2025
It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
From the bleary depths of shoegaze, ambient, and downer metal, Thom Wasluck’s first new album since 2017 returns…
Album Jun 22, 2025
More
After 24 years, Jarvis Cocker and his baroque-pop band return to remind you, with rakish wit and horny…
Album Jun 21, 2025
Hunting Season
The emo band embraces alt-country on its third album, filled with stories that celebrate community, survival, and the…
Album Jun 21, 2025
Endling
In a prequel to his orchestral work about a post-human Earth, the Dawn of Midi drummer and synthesist…
Album Jun 20, 2025
Addison
The girlypop album of summer warrants comparison to Lana, Madonna, and most of all, Britney. Are we ready…
Album Jun 20, 2025
Squeeze Me
The Baltimore-born, Germany-based songwriter experiments with vulnerability on an album that mixes classic Hollywood stylings with evocative art…
Album Jun 19, 2025
Now That’s What I Call Crank! 25
Both nostalgic and forward-looking, the latest entry in the veteran DMV rap producer’s mixtape series offers an insider’s…
