The co-founder of Oakland’s Club Chai merges samples of Turkish and Middle Eastern music with club beats on an EP that casts a skeptical eye on club culture’s promise of personal liberation.
The Australian electronic-music producer and streaming behemoth signals a shift in his approach with a surprise mixtape featuring appearances from JPEGMAFIA and SOPHIE.
After a string of releases that sometimes felt like hearing Bird think himself in circles, the singer-songwriter relaxes into his most plainly and darkly funny album in a long time.
The Canadian DJ, producer, and marine biologist bridges worlds on her debut album, weaving orcas’ songs and conservationist messages into deep-diving tracks aimed at inclusive dancefloors.
The very first recordings of Aretha Franklin, captured in Detroit when she was all of 14 years old, are remastered and offer a window into the early sounds of a genius.
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 Fiona Apple’s second album, full of diamond-sharp writing that mines the depths of her...
This lost Prefab Sprout album, previously issued as a Paddy McAloon solo LP, finds the singer receding into a vivid dream world unlike anything in his catalog.
The rapturous debut from the British singer-songwriter takes adventurous pop-rock crucibles to new heights with her illusory songwriting and stunning voice.
Gold Panda’s Derwin Dicker adopts a new alias and a new sound, trading his typically lush, sampledelic style for clean-lined house music with a dry sense of humor.
On his soundtrack for the film This Is Bate-Bola, the Chicago cornetist, keyboardist, and composer summons the dread and excitement of the lesser-known Rio festival.
A new project from the Chicago vaporwave maven eases off the aggression of her Fire-Toolz alias, finding new inspiration in the clash of new age, smooth jazz, prog rock, and video-game soundtracks.
Born in Kiev, Delena relocated to a Switzerland school at just 12 years old and went on to London, to study at the London Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance. Music was always in her veins, through her relation to Ukrainian...
Recorded using only plastic material, the concept of the latest Matmos album is undergirded by the compositional integrity, the quality of the sound, and the sickeningly beautiful idea of it all.
The UK producer’s debut album fashions a distinctive aesthetic out of asymmetrical machine beats and dabs of electronic melody, balancing academic concerns with rave-tested thrills.
English rock band The Coral are back once again touring their new Album 'Move Through The Dawn' nationwide, this evening stopping off in beautiful Oxford.
Japan was devastated by two huge nuclear explosions in WW2 and Nippons of a nervous desposition should duck and cover once again in anticipation of a visit from The Outcasts.