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Deradoorian Ascends on ‘Ready for Heaven’
Angel Deradoorian has always carved her own path. With her newest release, Ready for Heaven, she deepens her reputation as one of th...
Fully Completely
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Straight Line Was a Lie
On the Auckland indie rockers’ most incisive album, bulletproof hooks cloak gnarly emotional realities and cheerfulness always comes...
EURO-COUNTRY
Irish songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s new album overflows with comedy, tragedy, and self-lacerating wit. It’s a bold statemen...
Heliocene
Following a move from the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast of Florida, the electronic producer pushes his low-key deep house in a...
Slanted and Enchanted
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible....
Dollar a Day
Behind its dollar-bin sleeve, the Texan songwriter’s new album plays like a workingman’s spaghetti Western drama.
Songs in the Key of Yikes
After the lush, expansive contours of 2022’s Wild Loneliness, the Chapel Hill indie lifers sharpen their hooks on an energizing coll...
Double Infinity
The cosmic folk band’s sixth album is their first as a trio. But they still sound loose, chaotic, and intuitive as ever.
International
With its 13th and final album, the trio is determined to go out with a bang, once more mapping dance music’s energies onto tender fe...
Slipknot (25th Anniversary Edition)
Twenty-five years ago, a masked nu-metal band from Iowa crashed into the mainstream wearing jumpsuits and banging on oil drums. Thei...
Blue Reminder
Conditioned by the awestruck pleasure of falling in love, and showcasing Meg Duffy’s effortlessly acrobatic guitar playing, their la...
A Matter of Time
The Icelandic singer not only invokes the traditions of the Great American Songbook; she indulges, interrogates, and goofs on them,...
A Danger to Ourselves
The Colombian musician trades her typically fantastical subject matter for an album steeped in the immediacy of desire. The theme ma...
Rockstar Junkie
In 26 songs, the Broward County artist draws a fully realized world where narcotized Florida pain rap feels both meditative and terr...
Dreams of Being Dust
The band that helped define the 2010s “emo revival” cements its move in a heavier, proggier direction, centering technical mastery a...
Who’s the Clown?
On her debut album, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter—who co-wrote with Gracie Abrams—pokes fun at emotional desperation. Her songs...
“Bold, unapologetic, and utterly fearless” Something Beautiful – Miley Cyrus
With her smoldering alto, a roster of indie rock luminaries, and remarkable gusto, Miley Cyrus tucks into a concept album without a...
Star Line
In the six years since his last album, the Chicago rapper has gone through the wringer. Star Line captures a new era of transformati...
Love Is Like
The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes to reconciliation tepi...
Khadim
Nine years after the group’s last LP, the Basic Channel co-founder’s latest collaboration with Senegalese players is an even more sp...
Sunshine and Balance Beams
The Boston band’s ninth album restores its former post-hardcore roar while folding in strings and pockets of tenderness that suit th...
Supreme Clientele 2
Once a peerlessly inventive rapper, Ghost has aged into ordinariness. His latest is a sturdy, occasionally invigorating outing, but...