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Pop/R&B

I’m Only F**king Myself

Lola Young
Written in the wake of her viral hit “Messy,” the British singer-songwriter’s third album centers her powerful voice and chatty, unvarnished style.
Rock

Pain to Power

Maruja
Mesmerizing but somewhat disjointed, the Manchester group’s debut album boomerangs between hardcore, hip-hop, free jazz, and alt-rock balladry while rebuking oppressive power structures.
Pop/R&B

Play

Ed Sheeran
The superstar’s eighth album is sweetly generic and half-heartedly ambitious. He’s got a couple of surefire hits, but he’s never sounded this lazy.
Rock

Mark William Lewis

mark william lewis
The London singer-songwriter’s latest album is full of imagistic lyrics, foggy atmospheres, and moodily unconventional pop. It’s an appropriately cinematic choice for A24’s next step as a record label.
Rock

BRONTO

The Hidden Cameras
Canadian singer and songwriter Joel Gibb transforms his long-running indie-pop band into a Berlin-based subterranean house factory.
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More Reviews

  • Pop/R&B

    Man’s Best Friend

    Sabrina Carpenter
    Delivering formally classic, facepalm-clever pop songs with a heavy wink, Sabrina Carpenter’s new album takes her persona to its apex, and maybe as far as it can go.
  • Rap
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    Pop/R&B

    DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

    Bad Bunny
    Best New Album
    Bad Bunny synthesizes the past and present sound of Puerto Rico for an anthemic, cross-generational album. He’s a master at work to enact his vision for the future of música urbana.
  • Pop/R&B

    SWAG

    Justin Bieber
    Pop’s youngest elder statesman continues to evolve his R&B sound by enlisting some big names from the underground. His seventh album is warm, blissful, and a little out of touch.
  • Pop/R&B

    SWAG II

    Justin Bieber
    Bieber drops off another 23 tracks’ worth of SWAG, his Dijon- and Mk.gee-assisted foray into alt-R&B. Bland and underwritten, the sequel magnifies the weaknesses of the original.
  • Pop/R&B

    Tropicoqueta

    Karol G
    The urbano star’s tender and expansive new album is a reverent tribute to generations of Latin music and the Latina entertainers who brought it to life.
  • Pop/R&B

    Essex Honey

    Blood Orange
    Dev Hynes’ elegant new album, his first in six years, inhabits memories of an English childhood filled with joy, pain, and music.
  • Electronic

    DAISY

    rusowsky
    The most reclusive member of the Spanish collective Rusia-IDK shines on a debut that’s as freakishly fun as it is sincere.
  • Rock

    All Cylinders

    Yves Jarvis
    The Canadian psych-pop auteur’s new album is less interested in paying homage to the golden oldies than in discovering what playful new mutations he can get away with.

Sunday Reviews

  • Rock

    The Siket Disc

    Phish
    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 surprisingly great instrumental studio album from Phish, an experimental batch of moody, improvised fragments unlike anything else in their catalog.
  • Rock

    East and West

    Anna Domino
    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 curious, sideways 1984 debut from a New York City avant-pop songwriter who walked to her own beat.
  • Rock

    Fully Completely

    The Tragically Hip
    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 1992 album from the preeminent Canadian rock band. It’s the sound of national icons coming into their own, and confronting the foundational myths of their country.
  • Rock

    Slanted and Enchanted

    Pavement
    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 one of the manifestos of indie rock, a landmark 1992 album whose emotional peaks and diamond-sharp hooks are cloaked in fuzz, feedback, and elliptical lyricism.

  • Songs in the Key of Z

    Various Artists
    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 sublime and bizarro compilation by Irwin Chusid from 2000, the first major attempt to define and survey outsider music.
  • Pop/R&B

    Secrets

    Toni Braxton
    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 R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge.
  • Rock

    Pony Express Record

    Shudder to Think
    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 one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think.
  • Electronic
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    Pop/R&B

    Dewdrops in the Garden

    Deee-Lite
    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 1994 swan song from the sample-happy New York dance-pop band that just wanted a great party and a better world.