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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.
Desert Window
The English musician’s latest ambient pop experiments encase straightforward moments of ethereal beauty between vast expanses of und...
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Tether
On a striking debut LP, the Los Angeles musician’s intricate acoustic arrangements and intimate lyrics attest to the strength of her...
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Phantom Island
The prolific Australian group lavishes its gently trippy compositions with orchestral arrangements. The results are often frustratin...
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Lateral / Luminal
The duo’s debut collaborative albums use ambient and dream pop to channel hard-to-articulate feelings, but the concept feels more nu...
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Aseurai
The New Zealand band’s debut album is a pop record that is alternately chill, cosmic, and cosmopolitan, led by the airy voice and gr...
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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 alt-rock...
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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....
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Soft New Magic Dream
The Pittsburgh synth misfits reopen the haunted funhouse with their first album since 2018. The ooky-spooky hypnagogia hasn’t change...
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Hymnal
Armed with strings, laptop, and a lyric-selecting slime mold, the Berlin-based composer catapults classical minimalism into the futu...
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Lotus
The UK rapper battled self-doubt and legal woes in the run-up to her sixth album; now, however, framed by uncluttered jazz- and rock...
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Ripped and Torn
The young Chicago band crams its debut album with streamlined hooks and a reverence for pop, punk, and post-punk history.
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Tha Carter VI
Seemingly written and recorded in a very expensive vacuum, the sixth chapter of Wayne’s legacy-making album series would be a disast...
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PRINCESS OF POWER
The Welsh pop singer’s sixth album returns to established themes of feminist empowerment and disco-pop maximalism. It often feels li...
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SALT
As its catalog comes to streaming, an overlooked band from the thriving 1980s Boston indie rock scene gets a proper reintroduction w...
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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 gentle emptiness of the Ame...
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Church of Kidane Mehret
The latest in the always interesting batch of reissues from the Ethiopian pianist focuses on her most explicitly religious songs, wh...
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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 with a pearl of har...
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After 24 years, Jarvis Cocker and his baroque-pop band return to remind you, with rakish wit and horny wisdom, that your whole life...
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Hunting Season
The emo band embraces alt-country on its third album, filled with stories that celebrate community, survival, and the weird and wild...
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Endling
In a prequel to his orchestral work about a post-human Earth, the Dawn of Midi drummer and synthesist imagines the last survivor’s f...
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Addison
The girlypop album of summer warrants comparison to Lana, Madonna, and most of all, Britney. Are we ready for Addison?
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Squeeze Me
The Baltimore-born, Germany-based songwriter experiments with vulnerability on an album that mixes classic Hollywood stylings with e...
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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 tour of a...
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