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The R&B act of Drake’s triple bill is alternatingly hypnotic and hollow. It peaks when it’s refreshingly loose, and drags when it reverts to stock writing and production. ]]> efce424af9a4a179c982fa329b696ee7 Wed, 20 May 2026 02:50:05 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lykke-li-the-afterparty
On a purportedly final album, the Swedish electro-pop singer’s disenchantment takes shape around sparkling synth and light-touch disco beats. ]]> 8cdd825c919123e6b4ddc269ad4929be Wed, 20 May 2026 02:49:59 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/koyo-barely-here
On its second album, the five-piece carries the torch for Long Island melodic hardcore while injecting the style with contemporary themes of burnout and exhaustion. ]]> 57ae38e30fc1ae4b93b47e669141801b Wed, 20 May 2026 02:49:47 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/suzy-sheer-pure-pulse-slow-decay-soft-release
Frosty and a little unreal, the duo’s languid, atmospheric dream-electroclash unfurls like a gentle 5 a.m. comedown. ]]> 2ecc37c2a323e689195f6bb9e8dab398 Tue, 19 May 2026 04:24:24 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drake-maid-of-honour
The best album in Drake’s comeback trilogy. He’s desperate to pick up the pieces and reclaim his title as hip-hop’s ultimate hitmaker. ]]> 575b7ff0261c44c8f6ec1414471840d0 Tue, 19 May 2026 04:24:18 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jesca-hoop-long-wave-home
In a set of sweet, graceful tunes, the singer-songwriter offers meditations on love and human frailty, plus a few sharply rendered protest songs. ]]> 2226e3b5a1ca2d5a8f81bfafbdc7ed21 Tue, 19 May 2026 04:24:15 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kwes-darko-god-of-the-youth
The British electronic producer formerly known as Blue Daisy unveils a new solo venture and a menacing new sound heavy on distorted drum machines and blown-out bass. ]]> 666639ae1180ed1155a83bd7ce390842 Tue, 19 May 2026 04:24:03 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/genesis-owusu-redstar-wu-and-the-worldwide-scourge
Folding together post-industrial dissonance, globe-trotting influences, and stinging social commentary, the Australian musician’s new album isn’t pulling punches. ]]> 063020bbd4b0fd6df80fdc405fd82b4d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:50 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/drake-iceman
Part one of Drake’s comeback trilogy is an attempt to settle the score. He does not succeed. ]]> 399c44350d72231a2bd604dd8c28b76f Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:47 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-field-now-you-exist-ep
Eight years since his last record, the Swedish ambient-techno musician still constitutes a category of one. But his trademark style, epic and blissed out as ever, benefits from a newfound looseness. ]]> c15b7820b31cf6837025c611fadac642 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:36 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sergeant-symbols
The Belgian trio brightens up its sound a smidge on its second album, filled with heady, psychedelic songs that house a tenuous optimism. ]]> fd53db1ba1d220b0cf158c491611bcd8 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:33 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dua-saleh-of-earth-and-wires
Weaving between Bon Iver features and electronic experimentation, the Minnesota musician and actor’s new album sounds a note of community and composure in a tumultuous world. ]]> c1b1c80591a3031ec742f171f2f522c3 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:26 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10000-maniacs-mtv-unplugged
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 look back at the alt-rock band’s 1993 acoustic set, a swan song for the sensitive bohemians—and the biggest hit they’d ever release. ]]> 93b9d649d734a3883fedef254f470a12 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:20 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jeff-parker-and-eva-ivtet-happy-today
The guitarist and his fellow improvisers demonstrate mind-meld rapport and roof-raising intensity on a pair of side-long cuts recorded at L.A.’s Lodge Room last summer. ]]> bae09573687239bd8748fffd0c756dad Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:17 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rostam-american-stories
Blending Persian and American folk instrumentation, the alt-pop songwriter and producer expands his signature sound on a sharply focused third solo album. ]]> 805c92d2b50a88f069bdeb97d06111c7 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:11 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/naomi-scott-fig
With elegant, modern takes on 1980s soft ballads and sophistipop, the former Disney Channel actor’s debut LP is as stylish as it is easygoing. ]]> 076bfff1d591e3047e6e8ec7dc3a798f Mon, 18 May 2026 07:22:00 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/edward-skeletrix-body-of-work
Conceptual mastermind or serial con man? On his latest album of shaky rapping and abstract interludes, the multi-hyphenate creator finds a strange middle ground. ]]> a0e170143bbc5d5c008b350e63811705 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:56 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/smerz-easy-ep
The Norwegian duo’s latest EP, inspired by the final track of its 2025 album, forgoes straightforward plots for stranger, smudgier snapshots of life on the precipice of adulthood. ]]> 0eb763672c73a16ba6a2f50a897fb535 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:51 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kevin-morby-little-wide-open
Working with Aaron Dessner, the singer-songwriter balances contentment and mortal anxiety on the most cohesive and tuneful album of his career. ]]> 0809dcd40faab9ac149913a2244b4298 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:42 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sadie-better-angels
On her debut album, the New York singer-songwriter combines bedroom-pop vulnerability and electronic flourishes to dissect the end of a decade-long relationship. ]]> 2b751019af06e51150fc9c873be05ad0 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:37 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/father-dionysios-tabakis-paradise-metal
The inspiring and idiosyncratic debut from a 53-year-old priest in Greece pinballs between drone metal and techno Christmas carols, field recordings and hymns. ]]> 255dc840e25c1744324b3ac1efb7da07 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:35 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/daughn-gibson-lake-mary-not-mysterious
The songwriter’s first album in 11 years transports his suave, smoky style and lounge-lizard character studies to the Florida swamps. ]]> 9130fdb6c108a7444d0cc7ae341b4df3 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:24 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/broken-social-scene-remember-the-humans
On its first record in nearly nine years, the Toronto indie rock collective uses extended jams and stretches of stillness to highlight the sense of community and connection underpinning its best work. ]]> db41d6dae8ec12e226b544e7b7749237 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:22 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fire-toolz-lavender-networks
On her Warp debut, Angel Marcloid offers a dialed-in microcosm of her epic discography, blending black and death metal, scorched-earth electronics, and moments of melodramatic beauty. ]]> b96686ec19d8222397eec4c573b023a3 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:12 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/loraine-james-detached-from-the-rest-of-you
The London producer has always taken an unusually subdued approach to club music, but her latest album—a sullen fusion of pop structures and glitchy IDM—is her most fiercely introspective yet. ]]> 044bd714194aad9e517db17ba4c50c29 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:06 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lucy-liyou-mr-cobra
To exorcise the memory of a predatory relationship, the experimental artist’s new album and theatrical performance recast the story as a daring avant-pop opera. ]]> 2dc1079bbfddf57536718bec72ada730 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:21:04 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/chris-brown-brown
Chris Brown’s soulless, hit-chasing new album doesn’t justify his return to the public eye. ]]> 4aa43537d023e6ffa3e5b1b4a01c0af3 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:58 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/thaiboy-digital-swedm-paradise
The Drain Gang rapper teams with the Swedish production collective for an album whose dreamlike visions of 2010s EDM are tinged with nostalgia and aching melancholy. ]]> 506d8b354a44084c6182d5b64728306d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:48 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/suss-counting-sunsets
The ambient-country group’s latest album takes an artfully atmospheric look at the American West, drawing evocative shapes with pedal steel and synth. ]]> 3ee170fb210811120669002155b8edaf Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:41 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/croz-boyce-croz-boyce
The two Animal Collective members team up for a sunny, unhurried record that foregrounds pastoral acoustic guitar and glitchy synths. ]]> 646107e0bf9e758ea68b08675725976d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:35 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/olof-dreijer-loud-bloom
In both the Knife and solo, the Swedish producer has honed a uniquely playful style. On his long-awaited debut LP, he turns it toward a radically global vision of pop and dance music. ]]> 227f295a39d5ef9a48ab8878ff8139a6 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:31 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/muna-dancing-on-the-wall
The self-professed “queer joy mini-skirt rollerblade” band embraces a darker palette and angstier themes on its fourth album, though pleasure, community, and sex remain lodestars. ]]> 6e13c02d39a06961c4ab13d9185f12b5 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:23 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jwords-sound-therapy
The Brooklyn producer’s dance music has always felt unusually introspective; now she adds her own vocals, attempting to coax her fusion of footwork, techno, Jersey club out of the shadows. ]]> 4d5583a6afc945261a9ff26a355687c4 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:17 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ahmed-play-monk
The jazz quartet interprets the work of Thelonious Monk, expanding classic compositions into absorbing experimental journeys that stretch beyond free jazz. ]]> 9e5186f71bccd1ae9062a95400457307 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:12 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/santana-caravanserai
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 look back at Santana’s transitional fourth album, a transcendental convergence of rock, psych, and Afro-Cuban styles that absolutely rips. ]]> f783bd8e4912df5fc90267143283d8ba Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:06 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mahito-yokota-koji-kondo-super-mario-galaxy-super-mario-galaxy-2
Fusing whimsical electronics and a full symphony orchestra, the *Galaxy* soundtracks channeled the wide-screen ambition of Hollywood scores, marking a new era for game music. ]]> 83e7b6d6837c04a70bd3c82e3b0fd861 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:20:03 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aldous-harding-train-on-the-island
On her spellbinding fifth album, Aldous Harding steps closer than ever to the camera lens without coming into focus. It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far. ]]> 4974aaf7a021fcfcd1923179e43b5ffb Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:56 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/safety-trance-sacrificio
With witchy atmosphere and guest features by Six Sex, Arca, and Eartheater, the Venezuelan producer’s high-energy experimental club music seeks to defy reggaeton convention. ]]> 4ec6b38eab9b72cfcf169d6b65051a58 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:48 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/namasenda-limbo
The Swedish electropop artist’s blissed-out debut confronts body issues with body music, arranging hooks like fridge magnet poetry. ]]> 1ebe1ef839ad3af24c195dcd86bb7ad5 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:44 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/media-puzzle-new-racehorse
Led by the magnetic Tom Peter, the prolific lo-fi post-punk band out of Australia adds a human drummer and turns in a 23-minute burst of nonstop fun and creativity. ]]> 268df093b5a63e9a72ef3df622959b9c Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:38 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/zara-larsson-midnight-sun-girls-trip
The all-new, all-girls remix album from Swedish pop’s Gen Z ambassador is ready to outmog the original. ]]> 381c56bc5ce6af27af5681a79d9c209d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:29 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-black-keys-peaches
After a quarter-century as a band, the blues-rock duo offers its second set of covers in just five years. It is weirdly free of feeling. ]]> 4ebbd95755adca01e447df74f7c1ad8e Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:27 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/cola-cost-of-living-adjustment
The third album from the Montreal trio breaks free with restless energy and earnest, worldweary songwriting. ]]> 99f79378c4d4efa317b49d010fbc4064 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:19 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/asake-money
The Nigerian pop star returns with a breezy new album whose airy production and vague, religious framework make for a disappointingly one-dimensional listen. ]]> 86857d1bb12fecea1d8d41e7968bf088 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:16 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hekt-forever
Channeling the sugar-rush sonics of 2010s producers like SOPHIE and Hudson Mohawke, the Danish producer’s bright, booming pop-techno playfully conveys a spirit of endless optimism. ]]> eaa8215bd993903ebbf34f603368efa6 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:06 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/isaiah-rashad-its-been-awful
The iconoclastic TDE rapper’s compelling new album is contemplative and vulnerable, proving he’s at his best when he’s working through a mess of slithering contradictions. ]]> 492406358a676eb5e1a4bf94b166437b Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:03 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/seefeel-sol-hz
The ambient-dub duo returns with a warm and mournful new record that seems to spend most of its runtime fading in and out. ]]> 9fdfe0a396bdc4965b58e81d4e9507ae Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:53 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wifigawd-dylvinci-soulvinci
The latest in the prolific D.C. rapper’s series of one-producer collaborations strikes a balance between lush plugg production and effortless, stream-of-consciousness rapping. ]]> 25e9074e98313331d2dc5f22c0a7ede4 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:50 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ana-roxanne-poem-1
The ambient musician’s new album is a tremendous leap in scale, a quiet conjuring of vast, prayerlike yearning. ]]> 00d032622b1444ea82a340d93a3f5172 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:42 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/octo-octa-sigils-for-survival
Hewing to house-music tradition while deepening a signature style, the DJ priestess refines her acid grooves for maximum catharsis. ]]> dc9809b905acef36c3bc3a4229038655 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:37 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/julia-cumming-julia
On her debut solo album, the Sunflower Bean frontwoman channels ’60s Brill Building pop and ’70s Laurel Canyon songwriters on tracks that tackle personal and creative anxieties. ]]> 152cf8671def8eb57f978c68f893d876 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:29 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jailen-josey-serial-romantic
The Atlanta singer’s debut is a well-polished R&B fantasy that highlights her exceptional voice. ]]> 3307bd824214df141da1cc7621630e2e Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:26 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/american-football-american-football-lp4
The veteran emo band’s first album in seven years operates with its own sense of logic and time. It’s a fraught and dizzying triumph. ]]> 8fc2f2c2b5bbd8e366c60f36591f7a90 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:23 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maya-hawke-maitreya-corso
On her fourth album, the New York singer-songwriter frames big questions about ambition, identity, and self-doubt in deceptively understated folk-pop hybrids. ]]> 21ea95523d3bf0572cf18287032c0a12 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:13 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/setting-setting
The North Carolina trio’s second studio album combines krautrock grooves and ambient jazz to sculpt sweeping organic improv for the open air. ]]> 62b471c07eaa69af3b01438ef9c0b2ee Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:09 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/metric-romanticize-the-dive
On its tenth album, the Canadian quartet doubles down on its signature millennial synth-rock sound with glossy tones and memorable melodies that spark nostalgia for the band’s heyday. ]]> 566f904c1ab20c0c0ff51cbc91bf2f78 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:18:04 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fanny-fanny-hill
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 look back at the 1972 album from Fanny, a real rock spectacle laced with tenderness, sisterhood, and impeccable riffs that just never got its due. ]]> fa9d2bc4b26f8d61e9d5d3a64c66ffa0 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:57 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lip-critic-theft-world
The New York electro-punks’ second album is based on a wild concept that builds out a knotty, eccentric, and surprisingly sentimental world. ]]> 76a8a238245fcd98a97a313f3330af6d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:49 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere
After a decade of twists, turns, and experiments, the country star goes back to her roots on an expertly written, guest-heavy new album. ]]> dd9803f32a797c1ac9d74792399abca5 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:44 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/knats-a-great-day-in-newcastle
The UK trio’s second album marries jazz-kid experimentalism with taut punk, sprawling worldbuilding, and social commentary, featuring production from Geordie Greep. ]]> a7afce4a02b291ff0c0a69af63838c02 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:39 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/youbet-youbet
Now working as a duo, the erstwhile bedroom-pop project embraces its gnarliest impulses on its third album, finding unexpected hope amid clouds of distortion and anxious lyrics. ]]> 80552f051e97824b55782b8a408788ab Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:33 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gobby-i-guess-bro
The experimental New York beatmaker’s latest album cobbles together deadpan jokes, shroomed-out miniatures, and hard-edged drum maximalism, holding a cracked mirror to a world of information overload. ]]> 721177e1652d67383715a991023573c7 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:24 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tori-amos-in-times-of-dragons
The veteran songwriter’s new album colorfully dramatizes the reptilian autocrats of American society, but suffers from the literalism that affects much politically reactive art today. ]]> 1e2ba1159bd7ee165278f760dee57307 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:22 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kneecap-fenian
The Irish rap trio capitalizes on its notoriety with a savage second album that offers more sophisticated songcraft, a wider range of beats, and a sharpened political bent. ]]> 284124195269c756b0ddee43e135d730 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:16 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yu-su-foundry
The Chinese-born, London-based musician’s leftfield dance music has turned tougher in recent years, but her latest album lurks beguilingly in the overlap between dub techno and ambient. ]]> 19ec9ac0bf35c1f39c9aec425111b80a Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:07 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kuru-backstage-hologram
The TooManyStrikers-affiliated rapper-producer sharpens their sound on their latest album, with punchier low end and brattier energy that occasionally resembles the moshpit-ready rage rap. ]]> ca205674fc2a1a878de484124be5b739 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:17:00 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/noah-kahan-the-great-divide
On the follow-up to his 2022 breakthrough, the very popular New England songwriter stretches beyond his comfort zone with the hopes of growing more self-aware, more complex, and more deserving of the spotlight. ]]> dda76c82282de36fde8b69f3f7df5023 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:59 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/angelo-de-augustine-angel-in-plainclothes
Beneath its placid surface, the songwriter’s delicate, minimalist folk conveys a gossamer strength and dogged persistence. ]]> b851f36d76e580e3a9d7b7b7b275265c Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:47 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gia-margaret-singing
The Chicago composer has achieved viral success with her melancholy instrumental music, but her return to traditional singer-songwriter fare yields mixed results. ]]> c2cab7051ee8b638b042b2c80024a768 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:47 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/white-fence-orange
On his tightest, most cohesive album, the psych-rocker ditches tape-manipulated obfuscation for a sparkling set of jangle-pop songs that detail the road to recovery. ]]> ec972a11fdf80ec2fa1f393183ba194d Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:39 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kehlani-kehlani
With iconic celebrity guests and “Folded” on the tracklist, Kehlani’s self-titled new album makes a confident return to the buoyant, bassy R&B of *SweetSexySavage.* ]]> 33515342f392fa2da5bf8d2e9415d621 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:35 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mikaela-davis-graceland-way
The singer-songwriter and harpist cruises around Los Angeles on her light, loose, and rootsy new album. ]]> 9dd41e60a644f454b2b0c0f5fd16aa26 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:27 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/annea-lockwood-world-rhythms
Recorded on five reel-to-reel decks, the composer’s 1975 piece blends everyday and exotic sounds—human breath, cheeping frogs, bubbling geysers—into a passionate defense of the raptures of listening. ]]> 0730867b28736b2a2c0787f7071fe39a Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:18 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jump-source-fold
The dancefloor duo of Francis Latreille and Patrick Holland blends underground style and big-room sensibilities with a sweaty, sophisticated full-length showcase. ]]> a649995405bc0d039134d62a0ec887aa Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:14 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/loukeman-sd-3
The Toronto producer’s new album is an edgeless patchwork of friends, local heroes, and recent-vintage samples. His ingenuity makes familiar sounds leap off the page. ]]> f4a204f9623a88d835123f8229c6418e Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:07 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonic-youth-diamond-seas
One of the band’s most remarkable and mutable songs gets the plunderphonic treatment on a vinyl-only release assembled from more than 30 live recordings from the mid-1990s. ]]> e31e2c2e531dfcc0f15a72b3221ffb35 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:04 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tezzus-diamond-uy-scuti-boyz
The Atlanta rappers have undeniable chemistry but their guest-heavy collaborative mixtape only tells part of the story. ]]> d691e710f04ca974276cd5eb08564ec7 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:59 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/xang-groakdontcroak-vol-1
The Maryland rapper continues to carve out a niche for himself in hushed ambient rap over a choice selection of psychedelic, nocturnal beats. ]]> a557c44a3e6367b2aed77ca8c2d68b19 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:52 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/book-of-love-book-of-love
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 look back at the beguiling debut album from a quartet of art-school students who brought a slyly subversive touch to club-friendly new wave. ]]> 9b30113990dc8c1ed47bf571a0c22831 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:41 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/foo-fighters-your-favorite-toy
Dave Grohl faces the backlash with the leanest, meanest Foo Fighters album in 30 years. ]]> f0142b614795f189d84d6e40a485c110 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:35 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/quiet-light-blue-angel-sparkling-silver-2
Texas songwriter Riya Mahesh’s atmospheric beatmaking, gauzy harmonies, and impressionistic songwriting cast a spell. Her new album is her most refined yet. ]]> 704e0ec4eb0134da1501c3ce7ccb4c2a Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:29 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alvarius-b-malarial-dream
Alan Bishop’s latest album seems at first like a showcase of his music at its most rocking. But it’s also steeped in psych, folk, and desert blues, making good on Sun City Girls’ exploratory rep. ]]> 983fe5458a37f49ffc31c73897bc8769 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:29 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/zoumer-eal-euro-arab-lovergirl
The Danish Algerian songwriter’s peripatetic new album pulls up at the bustling crossroads of the electroclash comeback and the contemporary Scandinavian school. ]]> 173460f362643cfbbac2674f6026e3f3 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:15:22 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hedvig-mollestad-weejuns-bitches-blues
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The Australian singer-songwriter’s latest album sounds at first like a chipper fusion of post-punk and dream pop. But the lyrics tell a story of an unhinged narrator and her desperate obsession. ]]> 9c3d3019a60c7037aec501b125b1e5b1 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:14:59 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/portrayal-of-guilt-beginning-of-the-end
From nu-metal to Madchester and beyond, the Austin metal trio’s ambitious fourth album brings all their disparate influences under one roof. ]]> ff2da707c3504fa1ea77850d100d05af Mon, 18 May 2026 07:14:56 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/friko-something-worth-waiting-for
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The Chicago punks pack their debut album with cowboy campfire tales of love and loneliness, putting a Midwestern spin on sunburnt Americana. ]]> 046cf79a82d3aab39217cfc3086859f0 Mon, 18 May 2026 07:14:26 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sexyy-red-yo-favorite-trappa-favorite-rappa
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Percussionist and sound artist Colin Blanton mints a new alias for a suite of improvisational industrial jams where distortion is baked in at the atomic level. ]]> 222a8b4eec554c66838193bc99fb1e9f Mon, 18 May 2026 07:14:17 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kathryn-mohr-carve
Desolation reigns over the Bay Area musician’s skeletal songs for voice and guitar, but her latest album reveals a defiant new edge to her songwriting and fuzzed-out production. ]]> a9e435cb740c241f57cb5b7425c478fb Mon, 18 May 2026 07:14:09 -0400 https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/la-peste-i-dont-know-right-from-wrong-lost-la-peste-1976-1979-vol-1
A new anthology of the early Boston punks captures a pivotal moment in the city’s underground history, filling in the timeline between the Modern Lovers and Mission of Burma. ]]>