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POiSON GiRL FRiEND's debut—a 1992 cult classic that introduced the Japanese underground icon’s intoxicating blend of trip-hop, UK club, yé-yé, and dream pop—feels grandiose in scope pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

RIYL: Vashti Bunyan; Jessica Pratt; albums that technically came out in 2025; albums that never came out; drip candles; prayer beads; peering beyond the veil. See our full list of the best music of 2026 so far: pitchfork.visitlink.me/zjCFZy

The end of Clairo's bedroom-pop era pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Death Grips' debut mixtape Exmilitary is unnerving when you're not on its aggro wavelength, inviting when you are, and transfixing either way See why we named Death Grips in our list of the 200 most important artists of Pitchfork's first 25 years: pitchfork.visitlink.me/ya02Ae

Hip-hop has produced many of the most essential albums in the last 50 years of popular music pitchfork.com/features/lists…

Drake’s Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour just made history pitchfork.com/news/drake-bec…

Saint Etienne’s collage-like debut Fox Base Alpha reads overwhelmingly as a love letter to London. See where it lands on our list of the 50 best Britpop albums: pitchfork.visitlink.me/xdq2u_

Recommended if you like: Neo-soul; good vibes; great basslines; pep talks; shit talk; Philadelphia pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Songwriting is where Laura Nyro made her most lasting paeans to the miracle of art and observer, the meaning we find when the right music reaches us at the right time pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

A testament to the power of the voice pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Rob Base, one-half of the Harlem hip-hop duo behind ”It Takes Two,” has died pitchfork.com/news/it-takes-…

Ragged, contradictory, and oddly poignant See where Neil Young's On the Beach lands on our list of the 100 best albums of the 1970s: pitchfork.visitlink.me/1wRUMk

Despite its critical acclaim, enormous influence, and singular legacy within singer-songwriter music, perhaps no one can ever fully understand New York Tendaberry besides its creator pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

For this week's Sunday Review, we look back at the New York songwriter Laura Nyro's third LP, an album so painterly and poetic that it formed its own self-contained world pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Never again would Pulp command pop’s center stage like they did in 1995 pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

As emotionally soothing as it is physically crushing pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Clocked Watch Mitski rate Drake, cats, vanilla ice cream, and more: pitchfork.visitlink.me/18B5-2

On May 23, 1985, the state of Michigan declared Aretha Franklin's voice a "natural resource" pitchfork.com/features/after…

Steve Lacy made most of his debut EP on an iPhone pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

An accomplished self-saboteur, Ted Lucas struggled to release these great rock songs that could have slotted between Cheap Trick and Steely Dan on late ’70s radio pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…