Forget dancing like no one’s watching: The Québécois musician’s latest LP is raving under surveillance capitalism, offering pranksterish critiques ove... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/marie-davidson-city-of-clowns Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7mDC5vVphFdUarxs1yeUou

On the BLACKPINK singer and rapper’s solo debut, her various musical identities add up to the generic embodiment of a pop star. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lisa-alter-ego Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5eoWRkeplmcCL97afSMJVm

An acoustic reworking of Funeral for Injustice highlights the fearsome adaptability of the Nigerien singer-guitarist and his band, as well as the ten... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mdou-moctar-tears-of-injustice Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2PnW1uOBP1rJQLi8SycNDk

Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album expl... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ichiko-aoba-luminescent-creatures Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5HT3Ygm47fCCNs9AhqzzvS

The score for Kelly Reichardt's 2006 drama, written by the indie-rock veterans and session guitarist Smokey Hormel, captures the magisterial doldrums of an A... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yo-la-tengo-old-joy-ep Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4NdINo3J9ncT8qeD7hfxJf

Frontwoman Jessica Dobson’s powerful voice and gnarled guitar solos grant the Seattle band’s propulsive, riff-laden indie rock a new level of yearnin... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/deep-sea-diver-billboard-heart Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7n8ZhTHwFTpKF5u584a53t

Assisted by his Animal Collective bandmates, Noah Lennox’s latest solo LP is disarmingly laid-back. It might be his most straightforwardly beautiful recor... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/panda-bear-sinister-grift Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7dQ09jOwQBuBcm6qRBQcP9

The LA songwriter scales down to a no-frills soft rock sound for a nuanced, self-aware album that takes a personal lens to relationships and queer iden... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/miya-folick-erotica-veronica Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qhA5QaHjGtDptQf2DMXTQ

​​Recorded live at the opening gala of a Hollywood theater, the Danish duo—accompanied on one song by Laurel Halo—performs a moody, minimalist... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mk-velsorf-aase-nielsen-opening-night Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7j9uubLd4iXHA0mz0SzG0N

The London singer and producer builds on the mid-’00s glamor of last year’s Club Shy EP with pulsing hooks, euphoric self-assurance, and a VIP guest list... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/shygirl-club-shy-room-2-ep Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6h3gxC328MdxrMSZnerDZ1

A final album from the New Zealand indie-pop vets revives decades-old compositions by its late frontman with winsome optimism and... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-chills-spring-board-the-early-unrecorded-songs Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7AKflhK90ck3bjy37oYUeC

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... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/flipper-album-generic-flipper Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7p8wkhnQPET9CsQRpqrIYP

Guided by the idea of wiping the slate clean, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington’s third album is a raw, surprisingly funky, desperately hopeful response to the chao... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/darkside-nothing Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3nzuGtN3nXARvvecier4K0

The London-via-Glasgow duo’s second album of gothic folk songs romanticizes bleakness and melancholy—which, depending on your mood, can feel like an indulgent luxur... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kelora-sleepers Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6uuTtJuxRyfvlcCXrBXVDg

The New York duo channels the intensity of West Bengal’s earthshaking soundcheck battles into rowdy, celebratory bass music. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/baalti-mela-ep Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/733xXyraYyYmMmZigMig13

Kman 6ixx’s first single of the year turns the Trinibad sound even darker. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/kman-6ixx-bring-it Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0NwPaKAjq8Zt3uNIH1QUjU

With a newly muscular sound, Will Wiesenfeld’s first Baths album in eight years examines the giddy, pleasure-seeking joys of queerness alongside loneliness and desperation. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/baths-gut Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gL8LEGXuVQG71wHDtaMzW

Though her song soundtracked an iconic scene in The Silence of the Lambs, the New Jersey singer stayed unknown. A new documen... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/q-lazzarus-goodbye-horses-the-many-lives-of-q-lazzarus Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5tiJmpd5cHOSgH82YApDcr

The British singer’s fourth LP is a light, uplifting journey through R&B and nu-disco that lands on some thin cosmic metaphors. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nao-jupiter Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/66HcLnKvY2NUrUta3OduYH

On her third album, the Canadian singer and dancer amps up the 2000s influence and dials up the sex. Though it’s her most mature release yet, the music ... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tate-mcrae-so-close-to-what Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6KaEpgeZQF6ZVVAmSoZUrb

The musician and educator layers samples of historical audio, minimal loops, and his spoken-word poetry to lay out a vision of Black liberation rooted i... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/damon-locks-list-of-demands Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4FmYOHMOJ6qfY7oqFwzhdz

Nothing is simply what it is on the Norwegian songwriter’s vivid and tender excavation of a scent memory. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/jenny-hval-to-be-a-rose Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/1EkxfGivWsIwCJTdz359xl

The live-wire song is the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, Pirouette. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/model-actriz-cinderella Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/7JJT5XgtT9Fq7aLQ7MbAD7

This short, varied collection of the Canadian composer’s soundtrack work feels like a short film in its own right: part sci-fi noir, part android tearjerker. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tim-hecker-shards Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/06SyCXtsiegtbVJpJ7kNWm

The Philly producer takes a big leap with an album of freeform synth grooves inspired by the hyperkinetic blasts of late-’90s and early-’0... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/eev-frances-sometimes-i-forget-to-breathe Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3S8A3ngdasxrEpxUb35X6Z

In what they’ve hinted could be their final album, the Philadelphia death-metal extremists pair pummeling riffs with otherworldly vocal experiment... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pissgrave-malignant-worthlessness Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3E7SQqVUujftUeNBdWYY4W

The British crooner’s new mini-album builds on the heartache of their breakout LP with an evocative meld of rap-rock electronica. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/skaiwater-mia Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/69yCzxhBGrs0o2hPJWqttf

The producer and MC, longtime fixtures of Detroit rap, team back up for an album of gritty boom-bap beats and nimble wordplay. Their genuine c... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/black-milk-fat-ray-food-from-the-gods Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1M4p6UNirW9jsDnnNzPyqR

The genre-blurring indie rocker’s third album—half co-produced by Jack Antonoff—is ambitious and messy, grappling with deep-seated fears about the search for... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bartees-strange-horror Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/63PDPkOtqUzHu8qNolREp8

On a record combining driving rhythms, cinematic synths, and snatches of home videos, Trevor Powers sketches a gothic frontier strewn with fabled cha... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/youth-lagoon-rarely-do-i-dream Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Wxbhy7dIYmU99V4ZQYvHS

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. ... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/william-ackerman-in-search-of-the-turtles-navel Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2yFa5GO7pZKAK6r233m91G

On his third album, the UK’s own heartland rocker casts an empathetic eye on modern British life. Even as he shouts at max volume, he sometimes gets lost... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sam-fender-people-watching Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Qg1mJJObwIAJiFHTQvl9E

On her second album, the Japanese-Canadian musician’s magpie art pop coheres into something like a traditional breakup record, but her perspective and production are... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/saya-gray-saya Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6USYHqbYcz1QrGUjT8hbl4

Gone are the sweeping strings and the galloping mariachi band: On demos for his breakout 2015 album, Josh Tillman’s naked vocals cl... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-demos-etc Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5gSTgi63dbEOXkZ7ZvHJCX

For their sixth album of indie folk, brothers Daniel and Steve Bateman discovered this one weird trick to speed up the process: embrace the ha... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/frog-1000-variations-on-the-same-song Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0UUvgHaTGyQ27kM4eaJuN4

The jaunty lo-fi elegy is the lead single from his upcoming album, Jonatan. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/yung-lean-forever-yung Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2tUvuACq5JYZfvJ8KwAoAE

On his second full-length, the Maryland rapper confronts real-life struggle with emo-tinged production and a sensitivity that transcends pain-rap tropes. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nino-paid-love-me-as-i-am Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7jYJVYcqMg9V4j41q8G3Bm

A masterful re-interpreter of her own songs, the future-facing singer-songwriter gives a lush, harp-assisted performance of music from across her discograp... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kelela-in-the-blue-light Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2w1TWh1hbKQILEeEUzhICu

The London musician’s unyielding deadpan anchors a stylish debut that counters the high expectations of city hustle with nature’s eternal tranquility. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/john-glacier-like-a-ribbon Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zEIMfEjyBreLK9TfrkwBC

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-bac... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/horsegirl-phonetics-on-and-on Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7C51cbjlLSILLTMVnxbrOc

As part of the boutique label’s final crop of releases, the Austrian experimental musician strips back and stretches out, exploring the nuances of his ... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fennesz-the-last-days-of-may Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/073zUqVs2Y8wjiUgtezG6M

There’s still one new Drake song that’s going to hit at karaoke night. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/drake-partynextdoor-nokia Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/0o5p5zzRN84q6qVbOVONPM

$ome $exy $ongs 4 U is a desperate album from one of rap’s most notorious narcissists. Oh, and PARTYNEXTDOOR is here, too. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drake-partynextdoor-some-sexy-songs-4-u Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6Rl6YoCarF2GHPSQmmFjuR

In Swedish producer Thomas Bodén’s patient, minimalistic studies, an extended drone or a beatific glow conceal a world of unanticipated detail. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/civilistjavel-foljd Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/265oH85HmogmGvtC0bqnpj

The rapper’s debut EP puts a flirty spin on classic New Orleans bounce with sauced-up throwbacks, creative samples, and expert comedic ti... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/onlyheaven-kiss-keep-it-short-and-sweet-ep Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7naneISgGsnm9inrjc7O4R

On a pared-back acoustic epilogue to his trilogy of solo records, the Newcastle prog-folk musician examines the way family histories repeat themselves. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/richard-dawson-end-of-the-middle Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1JzuX5abMNgLKPw1POeo1r

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 Bab... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/babes-in-toyland-fontanelle Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3ym30rhJeAnjr7DHcYpqJa

It’s the first soft-rock revelation from Justin Vernon’s forthcoming album, SABLE, fABLE. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/bon-iver-everything-is-peaceful-love Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/5bA9nkU0bUuBrAaakSiOXP

With a squelchy, effervescent third single from her as-yet unannounced debut, Addison Rae makes not trying look easy. Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/addison-rae-high-fashion Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3m1LiSq0rio8k0yYlusWxV

A new remaster titled 1991 presents the demo tracks that anointed the young Boston shoegaze band in the British press and paved the way to their landma... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drop-nineteens-delaware-1991 Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0kAlEeID2MPd2JYT3Iwegp