Beside Myself
The Brooklyn-based DJ’s debut album is a grimly electrifying fusion of club beats, claustrophobic drones, and Middle Eastern percuss...
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Once Was Ours Forever
On his latest album, the Netherlands-based musician continues to refine his distinctive style of ambient guitar music, now bolstered...
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VICTORY
All these years later, Rick’s sing-songy, slick-worded autofiction still sounds like he’s walking on air.
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Faith
The Brooklyn trio’s second album puts a contemporary spin on Y2K ambient music, trading the era’s cryptic leanings for warm, consona...
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Metallic Life Review
Mining its deep archive of sampled metal objects—gongs, cheese graters, nitrous containers—the experimental duo’s reflective new con...
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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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Yowzers
The Chicago musician’s third album is a tighter, more intimate affair than its predecessor, framing soul-baring lyrics in disarmingl...
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STARS
The Chicago musician mashes up metal, showtunes, drum’n’bass, prog-rock, and more, leveling up their overstimulating compositions wi...
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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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Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
Sufjan Stevens remains embarrassed by the raw grief of the 2015 album devoted to his late mother. For its 10th anniversary, Jayson G...
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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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Planting by the Signs
On her third album, the singer-songwriter depicts her Kentucky home with tactile clarity, populating her roots-rock songs with wry o...
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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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Suspension of Belief EP
The Netherlands-based drum’n’bass producer’s dazzlingly kinetic EP flips the script, channeling unpredictable rhythms into humid and...
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Grace Joke
The Senegalese French singer and graphic novelist debuts on PAN with a moody, multilingual hybrid of R&B, alt rock, and Brazilian fu...
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O Que as Mulheres Querem
Even when the São Paulo-based producer laces his mandelão—a harsh, noisy subgenre of Brazilian funk—with hints of global club styles...
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Se Amaba Así
On their second album of smoldering synth-pop, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle examine a moment of friction in their own r...
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The Way of Time
Sampling a vintage radio play adapted from a 1926 novel about rural life, the Norwegian producer threads unsettling questions about...
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Five Forever
The young Twitch streamer tries to become a rapper using the innate talent and creative vision of a Twitch streamer.
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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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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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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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I quit
On their fourth album, Haim break free from the shackles of whatever and cruise right down the middle of the road.
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GULP
The Wisdom Teeth co-founder’s second album picks up the baton of the ongoing minimal revival, but his bite-sized house music is suff...
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