Pitchfork

  • Darkside: Nothing Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 28, 2025, midnight
    • Darkside’s second album, 2021’s Spiral, came as the isolation of COVID lockdowns began to ease. It was a woolier—though no less sinister—version of their slow-burn sound, mirroring the ...
  • Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 24, 2025, midnight
    • On Rarely Do I Dream, Youth Lagoon’s newest LP, Powers collages these remnants of the past into a sonic scrapbook that sets the Powers clan beside the diner waitresses, devils, and detectives of ...
  • Nao: Jupiter Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 27, 2025, midnight
    • In 2018, Nao found a fun metaphor for reinvention in Saturn’s return, the astrological notion that every three decades, ... Jupiter is adrift. The album has a light theme of healing and ...
  • Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear Demos, etc. | Pitchfork | Feb. 21, 2025, midnight
    • In honor of its 10-year anniversary, Father John Misty has re-released a collection of demos from the album, originally sent out in 2015 as a bonus cassette called I Luv You HB.
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 20, 2025, 5:02 a.m.
    • John Glacier’s debut studio album, Like a Ribbon, arrives with all the laudatory press (“perhaps one of the most London-defining artists of her era”) that comes baked into a release on Young ...
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 20, 2025, midnight
    • This is how I imagined the D.C. native’s physical choreography while listening to her live album, In the Blue Light, recorded at New York’s hallowed Blue Note Jazz Club. Kelela’s 12-song set ...
  • venturing: Ghostholding Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 14, 2025, 5:02 a.m.
    • Ghostholding, by contrast, tracks back to the midwestern emo marriage of snaking guitar riffs and melodic, introspective singing, with occasional shoegaze blasts interspersed for good measure....
  • Saya Gray: Saya Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 21, 2025, midnight
    • While much of Saya undercuts Gray’s bitterness with peppy tempos in major keys, a run of tracks in the album’s back half taps directly into its underlying doom and gloom. The mordant folk of ...
  • Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 19, 2025, midnight
    • 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-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a home-away ...
  • Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire Album Review | Pitchfork | Feb. 14, 2025, midnight
    • The Los Angeles-based singer, guitarist, and rapper finds refuge on her second solo album, buoyed by looser arrangements and immediate, declarative songwriting. ... Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire ...
  • Kelela to Release New In the Blue Light Live Album | Pitchfork | Jan. 28, 2025, midnight
    • Kelela is releasing a new live album that she and her band recorded last year at New York’s Blue Note. The album, In the Blue Light, is out February 11 via Warp.
  • 5 Takeaways From the Weeknd’s New Album Hurry Up Tomorrow | Pitchfork | Jan. 31, 2025, midnight
    • As pitched-up vocals quiver atop boom-bap drums on “Enjoy the Show,” the Weeknd paints out a self-inflicted death to a scorned lover: “I’m not scared, fuck it, overdose/No one thought I ...