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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If Not Winter
A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in chal...
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IIcons
The iconoclastic duo’s production is as jaw-dropping as ever, but its latest collection of techno-trance-pop club bangers veers curi...
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INFINITY CLUB II
Back for round two, the Toronto DJ’s thrilling bashment rave tracks temper turbo-charged riddims and booming bars with frosty electr...
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Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea
Slow, spaced-out guitar music is second nature to these two veterans of ambient and slowcore. Their second collaborative LP is warml...
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Intermission EP
The Australian egg punks present a leaner version of their scuzzy post-punk on an EP filled with programmed drums and rhythmic riffs...
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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...
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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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JACKBOYS 2
The sequel to Travis Scott’s label showcase series is little more than proof of life for a beleaguered group of artists struggling t...
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Joy in Repetition
Drolly titled and curiously sequenced, the London electro-pop quintet’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humor, win...
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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...
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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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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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Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
The alt-rock veterans’ eighth album lacks the bite of their 2021 LP; despite typically expert production, the songwriting is noncomm...
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Let God Sort Em Out
After 16 years, Pusha T and Malice return with a blockbuster comeback album produced entirely by Pharrell. It’s good, it’s different...
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Let’s Meet at Junes
The rapper’s latest continues to open up his world with foggy scenes that capture a snapshot of being young, fly, and a little aimle...
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Lick the Lens – Pt.1
For his debut project on Warp Records, the Swedish producer offers a mini-album of glitchy, pop-inflected IDM— the work of a meticul...
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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,...
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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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Love Is Like
The band continues its unchallenged legacy as the kings of normie rock. The swagger is unconvincing; the odes to reconciliation tepi...
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Made in Paris
The influential beatmaker’s new album is exactly what you’ve come to expect, now with a French twist.
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Mark William Lewis
The London singer-songwriter’s latest album is full of imagistic lyrics, foggy atmospheres, and moodily unconventional pop. It’s an...
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MARS IS ELECTRIC
It’s the Los Angeles rapper’s loosest, dreamiest dispatch yet, an enveloping and atmospheric collection that constantly comes togeth...
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MASA
The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, b...
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