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Water From Your Eyes: “Barley” Track Review
On the enigmatic first single from Everyone’s Crushed, art-rockers Rachel Brown and Nate Amos take a herky-jerky guitar riff in search of the unattainable. → Read More
Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Album Review
Caroline Polachek’s best album of her career is a transformative pop experience, a passionate, richly melodic odyssey into the darkest corners of love. → Read More
What The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Reneé Rapp Is Listening To
The actress and singer talks about mending heartbreak while listening to Kacey Musgraves and her pick for the greatest vocalist of our era. → Read More
boygenius: “$20” Track Review
The supergroup announces its long-awaited return with a three-song sampler. → Read More
Mura Masa: demon time Album Review
The London producer loosens the reins for a guest-heavy, party-starting album that doesn’t feel pressured to do or say too much → Read More
TikTok Is Turning Music Marketing Into a Labyrinthian Game
Is the fight between artists and labels over the necessity of TikTok popularity real, or is there something more convoluted going on here? → Read More
Dora Jar: “It’s Random” Track Review
This shapeshifting single from the rising pop star’s forthcoming EP treads an enchanting path through her pandemic mind-state. → Read More
Claire Rousay / More Eaze: Never Stop Texting Me Album Review
The Texas experimentalists set aside their drone and ASMR proclivities in favor of Auto-Tuned riffs on hyperpop, indulging in plenty of deadpan jokes and self-deprecating swagger along the way. → Read More
Nia Archives: “Luv Like” Track Review
Camouflaged as a love song, this sunny, effortless single from the rising jungle artist deals with body dysmorphia. → Read More
Mitski: Laurel Hell Album Review
Mitski’s fourth album is an austere, nuanced, and disaffected indie-pop record that, in part, addresses her turbulent relationship with her own career. → Read More
FKA twigs: CAPRISONGS Album Review
The singer’s new mixtape is a playful and adventurous flex, full of errant, shapeshifting compositions that flirt with choral music and Afrobeats, schoolyard chants and squeak-rapping. → Read More
Listen to “Easy on Me” by Adele
Adele navigates the aftermath of divorce on a stirring ballad with all the grandiosity of her past work. → Read More
Kesha: Animal 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 Kesha's whiskey-soaked 2010 debut, a ridiculously fun and somewhat fraught album whose garish aesthetic is being channeled anew. → Read More
Listen to “Valentine” by Snail Mail
Even as she grapples with prying eyes and unsteady feelings, Lindsey Jordan emphasizes the force of her devotion to her lover on her new single. → Read More
Indigo De Souza: Any Shape You Take Album Review
The North Carolina songwriter’s outstanding second album spans grungy rock and colorful, hi-fi pop, illuminating her impressive voice and her ability to wring out every last drop of emotion. → Read More
Listen to “Mood Ring” by Lorde
Lorde commits to the bit on her latest satire of wellness culture, but what she has to say is fairly trite. → Read More
5 Takeaways from Billie Eilish’s New Album, Happier Than Ever
On her second LP, the sonically adventurous pop star goes for a chiller sound. She’s more content to sing about the bad guys than play one. → Read More
Clairo: Sling Album Review
On her second album, reluctant Gen Z ambassador Clairo turns back the clock, embracing classic touchstones of 1970s folk. → Read More
Listen to “Passion” by PinkPantheress
The UK producer’s first official single lives up to the promise of her viral R&B- and drum’n’bass-inflected sketches. → Read More
What Comedian Bowen Yang Is Listening To Right Now
The SNL star on his “slut tracks” playlist, the pain and beauty of Japanese Breakfast, and his barber’s good taste in city pop → Read More