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Different When It’s Silent
Tricky
The trip-hop icon’s latest album is stylistically uneven, but he sounds creatively energized, particularly on brooding, desolate songs where he grapples with parental grief.
BLING SLIME VØL 1: HØSTED BY DJ HØLIDAY
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On a new release filled with acrobatic punch-ins and glitzy production, the Atlanta rapper and ØWay figurehead makes the case for being his city’s slickest new emcee.
Sweet Thief
Luluc
Like ships in bottles, the Australian duo’s dreamy folk-pop and doo wop songs are small, delicate, and fully detailed.
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Emotional Junglist
Nia Archives
The UK musician sounds emboldened and unguarded on her latest album, building on her drum’n’bass foundations while expanding her expressive range.
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Tranquilizer
Oneohtrix Point NeverBest New AlbumDrawing on a cache of commercial sample CDs, Daniel Lopatin assembles an impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration.
West End Girl
Lily AllenWith an album that doubles as an insider’s account of a tabloid divorce, the singer finds a new evolution of her signature style: Lightness isn’t a foil for irony, but a vehicle for hurt.
Repulsor
ShlohmoThe L.A. beatmaker turns aggressive on his fourth album—dialing up the distortion, flooding his beats with overdriven synths, and pushing anxious moods into the red.
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OpethEach 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 Swedish metal band’s desolate foray into melodic songwriting, the moment when their unabashed prog worship led to a haunted emotional breakthrough.
Power Windows
RushEach 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 Rush’s 1985 album, the peak of the prog trio’s synth era, home to both impressive musicianship and pop grandeur.
Boys and Girls
Bryan FerryEach 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 inimitable chanteur’s 1985 solo record, a dapper work of exquisite pop perfectionism.
Celebrity Skin
HoleEach 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 Hole’s third album, Hollywood in the late 1990s, and the redemption of Courtney Love.
First Floor
Theo ParrishEach 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 1998 debut album from a Chicago-born DJ-producer who heard in house music the spirit of rebellion.
Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles DavisEach 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 first real glimpse of electric Miles and the swan song of his brilliant Second Great Quintet.%2520album%2520art.jpg)
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Laura NyroEach 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 New York songwriter’s third LP, an album so painterly and poetic that it formed its own self-contained world.
MTV Unplugged
10,000 ManiacsEach 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.
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