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Feb 14, 2026 - On her comeback album, 'To Whom This May Concern,' neo-soul icon Jill Scott dabbles in everything from trip-hop to New Orleans rhythm & blues

Jun 21, 2025 - Messy, overheated, self-indulgent, divisive, and literally seminal, Metallica’s 1996 album lacked only a colossal 301-song, five-LP, 15-CD, four-DVD box set...

Aug 14, 2017 - Daniel Lopatin accentuates the Safdie Brothers’ character studies with his hyper-real music. Instead of pursuing moments of trance-like calm or humor, here...

Dec 15, 2025 - The British rapper and New York production collective blend cloud rap, club trap, and stormy breaks to capture a slice of London life, dropping local...

Oct 31, 2024 - On his eighth album, Tyler is both mask-on and mask-off. It’s an electric, revealing, and perennially odd journey back into his aging psyche.

May 29, 2018 - On his third studio album, Rocky is more experimental and personal. But for music that relies on the New York rapper’s artful intuitions, it’s unfortunate...

Oct 27, 2025 - On “West End Girl,” Lily Allen reclaims her power—in the most chaotic way possible.

Jun 4, 2017 - An unrivaled classic, Supreme Clientele marked a seismic rupture with rap tradition. It’s Tony Starks, invulnerable and silvery,...

Dec 5, 2025 - Kai Slater’s lo-fi, Beatlesque references aren’t imitative or some cheap nostalgia-bait, but a sincere appreciation for an era of music that’s come and...

Dec 4, 2025 - Recorded September 2024 in Nashville, this catalog-spanning, low-energy set lands with a finality that the duo perhaps didn’t intend.

Sep 1, 2021 - Drawing inspiration from the abject state of contemporary Britain and nourished by fantasies of righteous violence, the latest album from the UK producer is...

Jun 27, 2021 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Billy...

Yungblud Scores His Third No. 1 UK Album With 'IDOLS' was a top 25 story of July 2025 in our look back at the Year In Rock

Apr 7, 2015 - Henry Laufer, the Los Angeles producer who records and performs electronic music as Shlohmo, has always been a fan of distortion, but on his second full-length...

Mar 27, 2025 - The Compton prophet takes his mask off on his muscular surprise project.

Mar 27, 2015 - Like Beast Mode and Monster before it, Future’s latest mixtape hints at the lingering effects from the rapper’s soured relationship with Ciara. Where...

Oct 4, 2013 - On R Plus Seven, Oneohtrix Point Never’s follow-up to 2011’s Replica, Daniel Lopatin builds new music using the bright yet cold textures of the early...

Feb 6, 2026 - A noise artist who once found hidden music in the crackle of fire sounds equally incendiary on her latest EP of club music, sculpting redlining rhythms out of...

Dec 20, 2025 - For every shoegaze, post-punk, or experimental rock enthusiast, there’s a pre-Swirlies world and a post-Swirlies world. 32 years later, the Boston...

Aug 17, 2025 - Dijon's second album isn’t a breakthrough or a comeback, but meteoric proof that his debut was star-making and his sound will command R&B's...

Jul 18, 2008 - The new album from Patti Smith (that's good!) is two discs long (that's bad), and it's a collaboration with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin...

Mar 27, 2025 - Mike Hadreas’ seventh studio album brings a more elegant and capacious sound to unanswerable questions of anxiety, grief, and disconnection.

Dec 31, 2025 - On their second collaboration with The Alchemist, billy woods and E L U C I D refuse grand answers, turning instead to the quiet labor of...

Feb 13, 2026 - femtanyl make computer music that wants to mosh. The bitcrushed hardcore rave tracks on the duo’s debut LP are sometimes thrilling and sometimes too much.

Oct 5, 2025 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Polly...

Feb 19, 2010 - West London band's faux family business actually sounds like a business, one supplying value-added products at discount prices.

Jun 12, 2016 - With her self-produced fifth album, Kate Bush became a total auteur, embracing the possibilities of digital sampling synthesizers and creating a perfect...

Sep 23, 2025 - The UK singer-songwriter’s sixth album is spectral and breathtaking. It’s a mood record of immense solitude, beauty, and free expression—with a crucial...

Dec 9, 2025 - 'These Days' doesn’t simply live up to decades of great records made by folk giants, it makes the case that Emily Hines deserves to be their peer.

Aug 1, 2022 - Beyoncé’s seventh album is not just a pop star’s immaculate dance record, but a rich celebration of club music and its sweaty, emancipatory spirit.

Sonia Weber tries to find the right words, coincidentally speaking for the masses on Alien Boy’s third album, You Wanna Fade? “I told you the other...

Jul 24, 2025 - Tyler’s ninth studio album is a brisk, single-minded, and snappy dancefloor romp. He skitters through electro, synth-funk, disco, and Miami bass not to...

Dec 12, 2025 - Songwriter Nate Amos polishes up 10 tracks from his Bandcamp days and confronts humorous self-effacement with new confidence.

Jan 15, 2026 - On a brief new project, the Detroit rapper finds strange, adventurous territory on the outskirts of his hard-nosed sound.

Oct 18, 2025 - The pop star’s technicolor breakthrough sounds as radiant as ever on a deluxe edition, whose bonus material only highlights the magic of the album proper.

Oct 2, 2005 - Swedish has-been self-finances her comeback album and winds up making one of the year's finest, smartest, and most engaging pop records.

Nov 24, 2025 - The veteran Atlanta producer’s new solo EP channels his familiarity with Southern rap history to celebrate a fresh lease on life.

Dec 4, 2025 - Skales’ seventh project, ‘Martina’s Son’, named after his late mother, is the musician’s way of saying “Mama, I made it!” Read more.

Dec 1, 2025 - 21-year-old power-pop auteur Kai Slater is back with a deliberately constructed album that finds the sweet spot between winsome and whimsical, chaos and craft.

Sep 15, 2023 - After contemplating retirement, Mitski returns with a new album that’s warmer, quieter, and more organic-sounding. For the first time in a while, she sounds...

Feb 8, 2026 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a cult...

Jun 22, 2016 - On her fourth album, Mitski makes a resounding personal statement and stakes out her territory as one of the most compelling voices in the sphere of indie rock.

Feb 20, 2026 - On her first album since 2015, the Lizzie McGuire actress cowrites and collaborates with her husband on fizzy, centrist pop from the crossroads of...

Nov 25, 2025 - On her third solo album, the Montreal singer-songwriter crafts playfully disorienting art-punk without ever losing her cool.

Nov 1, 2024 - Sixteen years after their last album, Robert Smith & co. return at their own glacial pace. Sounding regal, weary, and deliciously slow, they grapple with...

Dec 4, 2025 - The California R&B singer lets a little light into his vibey, moody love songs.

Sep 10, 2017 - Red stands as one of classic rock’s heaviest albums and also one of its most meticulous. With its dark, meditative sheen, it laid the groundwork for Robert...

Jun 13, 2007 - A deluxe, remastered version of the indie rock classic, this original 1988 album was the first full articulation that the underground music of the Reagan era--...

Apr 5, 2019 - Natalie Mering’s fourth album is a grand, sentimental ode to living and loving in the shadow of doom. It is her most ambitious and complex work yet.

Oct 15, 2024 - This year, it seems as though all of the prominent names in pop have released albums — Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish, to name a...

Jan 7, 2026 - Experimental musician Delia Beatriz pays homage to Mexican cumbia rebajada using digital processing to manipulate archival recordings into fields of warped...

Dec 17, 2025 - The Brooklyn rapper pushes past conventional song structures on an adventurous, emotional album that centers his stream-of-consciousness flow.

Nov 5, 2025 - We break down, track by track, the four movements that make up an album already destined to be an instant classic

Sep 8, 2025 - Kendrick Lamar's breakthrough underground mixtape released during the blog rap era solidified his status as a top dawg in the making.

Nov 9, 2025 - Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Patti...

May 22, 2014 - Oasis were terrible at being the Biggest Band in the World, but as this 20th anniversary reissue of their first album—a three-disc collection packed with...

Nov 18, 2025 - English experimentalist aya's second album, 'hexed!,' guarantees you’ll have the best bad time imaginable. There is never a stagnant moment.

Nov 20, 2025 - The emergent SoundCloud graduate’s new full-length feels like a sleeker, more idyllic take on the original plugg scene of the 2010s.

Oct 10, 2025 - Recorded in an 18th-century farmhouse, the second album from the North Carolina collective is a vibrantly idiosyncratic deconstruction of folk music.

Jul 12, 2024 - It begins with the title track: “Am I Okay?” Megan Moroney, a storied student of country music — and an expert in the genre’s ability to flip a...

Jun 7, 2024 - With her sixth album, Charli XCX transcends all narratives and delivers a hit. Brat is imperious and cool, nuanced and vulnerable, and one of the best pop...

Jan 15, 2026 - The Minneapolis hardcore band’s debut is fearsomely loud and more timely than ever. Their protest punk hits like a baseball bat.

Dec 22, 2025 - The dub veterans bring out the best in each other with a collaborative album that balances lumbering doom with spacey ambience.

Nov 25, 2025 - Sage Elsesser’s sixth album is his most evocative release in years. Working with an extensive catalog of producers, the rapper reflects on grief and loss in...

Dec 1, 2025 - Probing the unease lurking beneath domestic comfort, the New York musician’s second album uses warm, melodic folk as the backdrop to something stranger and...

Nov 14, 2019 - The experimental troupe gathers Patti Smith, Philip Glass, and Mulatu Astatke for a sometimes-glorious, sometimes-chaotic attempt at attaining spiritual...

Dec 18, 2025 - On his debut EP, the Los Angeles-based singer and producer makes funky, homespun R&B that celebrates his Southern heritage.

Jul 13, 2021 - Raime’s Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, together with percussionist Valentina Magaletti, swap their customary electronics for muscular, guitar-driven sounds...

Nov 7, 2025 - Kelefa Sanneh on the new collection, which includes the songs “Berghain,” “Reliquia,” “De Madrugá,” and “Mio Cristo.”

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Sara Groves gave us some unforgettable radio hits like "Less Like Scars" and "All Right Here." Fair enough; they were catchy and they make...

Jul 16, 2025 - Pop’s youngest elder statesman continues to evolve his R&B sound by enlisting some big names from the underground. His seventh album is warm, blissful,...