Jenn Pelly
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Hurray for the Riff Raff: Life on Earth Album Review
Alynda Segarra’s powerful eighth album exudes a glorious irreverence. Their self-described “nature punk” songs are both intimate and immense, and they’ve never sounded more honest or self-possessed. → Read More
Cate Le Bon: Pompeii Album Review
Cate Le Bon’s wondrous sixth album exists in a waking dreamscape whose locked-in grooves approach the unknowable at slanted angles. → Read More
Remembering Ronnie Spector, the Beating Heart of Rock’n’Roll
A true original, the Ronettes leader pioneered an eternal attitude—tough and tender at once. → Read More
Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings Album Review
These 1981 devotional recordings for voice and Wurlitzer, meant to guide meditation through chanting, offer an alternate version of the cosmic jazz visionary’s synthesizer masterpiece, Turiya Sings. → Read More
L’Rain Wants to Confuse You
A fixture of New York’s art and experimental music communities, Taja Cheek envisions a decidedly uncategorizable world of sound as L’Rain. → Read More
Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading Album Review
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 the British folk-rock singer’s 1976 album, a brilliant display of musicianship from a songwriter attuned to the mysteries of desire and heartbreak. → Read More
Blair: Tears to Grow EP Album Review
Channeling the scrappy ache of ’90s emo, the New York City band’s DIY rock songs voice the joy and catharsis of creating in community. → Read More
Sharon Van Etten: epic Ten Album Review
Sharon Van Etten invites a handful of artists to cover songs from her 2010 album epic. These new versions—played by Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, and more—reveal the music’s healing power and complexity. → Read More
Angel Olsen: Whole New Mess Album Review
Recorded in Anacortes, Washington, the stark original version of the songwriter’s 2019 album All Mirrors makes the experience of solitude sound metaphysical. The songs are spare, but still feel electric. → Read More
that dog.: Totally Crushed Out / Retreat From the Sun Album Review
Reissues of the L.A. band’s mid-’90s albums capture how they brought girl-group yearning, three-part harmonies, and virtuoso violin lines to the era of Sassy mag and 120 Minutes. → Read More
Special Interest: The Passion Of Album Review
Mixing art-punk, industrial, and techno, the outstanding New Orleans four-piece emerge with a blistering vision of punk as possibility. → Read More
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters Album Review
Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound, a wildstyle symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No music has ever sounded quite like it. → Read More
Porridge Radio: Every Bad Album Review
The second album from the Bristol four-piece is the sound of a band mercilessly digging into itself with a stunning, dynamic performance from singer-songwriter Dana Margolin. → Read More
Björk: Post Album Review
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 Björk’s second album, the foundation for one of the most consequential careers in pop history. → Read More
Frances Quinlan: Likewise Album Review
The Philadelphia musician’s first record under her own name eschews the blown-out euphoria of her band Hop Along, but her voice remains an instrument of rare expressive power. → Read More
Carole King: Tapestry Album Review
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 Carole King’s Tapestry, the second act that turned a master songwriter into a music legend. → Read More
Arthur Russell: Iowa Dream Album Review
The latest posthumous album from the groundbreaking artist feels like one of his truest, 19 “demos” that reveal his elegant songwriting, his disregard for genre, and his boundless mind. → Read More
Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! Album Review
On her elegant and complex fifth album, Lana Del Rey sings exquisitely of freedom and transformation and the wreckage of being alive. It establishes her as one of America’s greatest living songwriters. → Read More
Florist’s Emily Sprague Is on a Never-Ending Search for Life’s Biggest Mysteries
The folk, indie-pop, and ambient artist talks about the bike accident that changed her perspective and having her music featured in Beyoncé’s Homecoming film in this Rising interview. → Read More
Lingua Ignota: Caligula Album Review
On her torrential second album, Kristin Hayter creates a murderous amalgam of opera, metal, and noise that uses her classical training like a Trojan Horse, burning misogyny to ash from its Judeo-Christian roots. → Read More