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Forget dancing like no one’s watching: The Québécois musician’s latest LP is raving under surveillance capitalism, offering pranksterish critiques ove...

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City of Clowns
Forget dancing like no one’s watching: The Québécois musician’s latest LP is raving under surveillance capitalism, offering pranksterish critiques over Y2K-inspired beats.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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On the BLACKPINK singer and rapper’s solo debut, her various musical identities add up to the generic embodiment of a pop star.

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Alter Ego
On the BLACKPINK singer and rapper’s solo debut, her various musical identities add up to the generic embodiment of a pop star.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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An acoustic reworking of Funeral for Injustice highlights the fearsome adaptability of the Nigerien singer-guitarist and his band, as well as the ten...

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Tears of Injustice
An acoustic reworking of Funeral for Injustice highlights the fearsome adaptability of the Nigerien singer-guitarist and his band, as well as the tensions of their position on a world stage.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album expl...

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Luminescent Creatures
Inspired by creatures she encountered diving in the waters off a remote island, the Japanese singer-songwriter’s understated, beautiful album explores liminal worlds through softly textured ambient folk
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March 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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...

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Old Joy EP
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 American road trip in countrified krautrock.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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...

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Billboard Heart
Frontwoman Jessica Dobson’s powerful voice and gnarled guitar solos grant the Seattle band’s propulsive, riff-laden indie rock a new level of yearning intensity.
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March 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Assisted by his Animal Collective bandmates, Noah Lennox’s latest solo LP is disarmingly laid-back. It might be his most straightforwardly beautiful recor...

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Sinister Grift
Assisted by his Animal Collective bandmates, Noah Lennox’s latest solo LP is disarmingly laid-back. It might be his most straightforwardly beautiful record—and also his most emotionally complex.
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March 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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...

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Erotica Veronica
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 identity.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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​​Recorded live at the opening gala of a Hollywood theater, the Danish duo—accompanied on one song by Laurel Halo—performs a moody, minimalist...

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Opening Night
​​Recorded live at the opening gala of a Hollywood theater, the Danish duo—accompanied on one song by Laurel Halo—performs a moody, minimalist tribute to LA.
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March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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...

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Club Shy Room 2 EP
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 of features.
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March 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A final album from the New Zealand indie-pop vets revives decades-old compositions by its late frontman with winsome optimism and...

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Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
A final album from the New Zealand indie-pop vets revives decades-old compositions by its late frontman with winsome optimism and a keen eye for the passage of time.
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March 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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...

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Album – Generic Flipper
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 1982 album in which hardcore punk’s oppositional spirit turned on itself—a nihilistic spiral both profound and absurd.
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March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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...

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Nothing
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 chaos of the 2020s.
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March 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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...

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Sleepers
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 luxury or a gloomy endurance test.
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March 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The New York duo channels the intensity of West Bengal’s earthshaking soundcheck battles into rowdy, celebratory bass music.

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Mela EP
The New York duo channels the intensity of West Bengal’s earthshaking soundcheck battles into rowdy, celebratory bass music.
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March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Kman 6ixx’s first single of the year turns the Trinibad sound even darker.

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“Bring It”
Kman 6ixx’s first single of the year turns the Trinibad sound even darker.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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.

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Gut
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.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Though her song soundtracked an iconic scene in The Silence of the Lambs, the New Jersey singer stayed unknown. A new documen...

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Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture)
Though her song soundtracked an iconic scene in The Silence of the Lambs, the New Jersey singer stayed unknown. A new documentary explores her life on the margins of fame—and behind the wheel of a cab.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The British singer’s fourth LP is a light, uplifting journey through R&B and nu-disco that lands on some thin cosmic metaphors.

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Jupiter
The British singer’s fourth LP is a light, uplifting journey through R&B and nu-disco that lands on some thin cosmic metaphors.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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 ...

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So Close To What
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 still sounds tedious and reheated.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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...

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List of Demands
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 in community and creativity.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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
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“To Be a Rose”
Nothing is simply what it is on the Norwegian songwriter’s vivid and tender excavation of a scent memory.
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February 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The live-wire song is the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, Pirouette.

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“Cinderella”
The live-wire song is the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, Pirouette.
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February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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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.

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Shards
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.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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...

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Sometimes I Forget to Breathe
The Philly producer takes a big leap with an album of freeform synth grooves inspired by the hyperkinetic blasts of late-’90s and early-’00s IDM.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM