On their third album this year, the New Orleans garage rockers embrace conflicting emotions and clashing sounds, balancing hard-charging rave-ups with exploratory tape experiments.

On its first live album, the New York trio recasts a quarter-century of rock songs for strings, piano, and acoustic guitar, highlighting the ache and vulnerability at the heart of its music.

So post-ironic it's deadass, the Toronto songwriter's debut renders a thoroughly modern affect with rare authenticity.

Too challenging to qualify as radio rock, the Los Angeles songwriter's cloudy, lo-fi grunge is stuffed with '90s references and opaque secrets.

Nate Amos brought five tracks from his latest album to the public radio station

Not quite Heaven's door, but close

"When I was asked to do a remix it felt like the universe was confirming I was connected to this music"

Alphonse Pierre's Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse wonders what billion-dollar prediction markets want with a bunch of past-their-prime regional rappers.

"Rendez-vous avec toi" arrives alongside an English counterpart, "Rendez-vous in your arms"

With delirious melodic instincts, the Bronx rapper's new tape evokes Young Money-era swag on a SoundCloud budget.

The Lisbon trio trades the laid-back feel of its earlier, more disco-indebted work for skeletal machine minimalism, twisted sequencer fugues, and lo-fi ambient that conceals more than it reveals.

On her debut album, the musician combines her family's Jamaican mento legacy with her personal love of folk for a set of graceful, winningly direct songs.

Experimental artist Felicia Chen's high-contrast compositions unite whispers and shrieks, intimate acoustics and inhuman distortion.

"I feel weird because we're living in a weird world" — Jughead from Riverdale Saya Gray

On the eve of the next leg of his North American tour

Watch the acrobatic "From Healer to Dealer" video from Topical Dancer follow-up Mainland Madinina

Unlike the composer's typically massive, sprawling drones, these pieces for pipe organ—accompanied by guitarist Stephen O'Malley and cellist Lucy Railton—are finely filigreed miniatures.

On a new EP, the Ohio singer-songwriter writes with focus and immediacy, their lyrics blending a love of chaos with an eye toward long-term stability.

The perennially unserious duo's embrace of AI is the least of the problems weighing down its latest album (and 55-track bonus compendium) of post-ironic club pop.

A newly unearthed live performance, originally intended for broadcast on NPR, showcases a unique and transitional moment for the free-jazz pianist's ensemble.

In the 1980s, the Detroit producer saw the future of electronic music, and he never looked back. Here is a very small slice of his decades-long legacy, from raw electro-funk bombs to playful party techno to foggy dub excursions.

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat

The duo's work on The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will be their sixth collaboration

The singer-producer's first song of the year is a collaboration with Enayet and K Wata

A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months

He dug into the vault for his holiday compilation Worst Christmas Ever!

Featuring heartbroken vocal performances and stripped of frills like basslines or reverb, the Manchester producer's latest album of bruised electronica is his starkest and most forlorn yet.

The "Stop the Wedding!" singer's vintage-styled new album combines stately pop classicism and exuberant '70s pastiche.

The Disintegration Loops made the composer's name synonymous with weighty meditations on memory and loss, but his latest album—calm, focused, tender—is a reminder of his fondness for beauty.

Marrying lush arrangements and field-recording experiments, the English revivalists honor folk music's radical tradition by reinforcing its contemporary significance.

From Tinashe as melatonin to Wednesday as the Addams Family, here are our favorite get-ups this year

The Detroit producer and DJ pioneered the genre as a solo artist and member of the Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland

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 reconnect with a 2004 cult-classic game whose postmodernist soundtrack doubles as a treatise on the meaning of life.

Richard D. James' once divisive 2001 album today looks, with 25 years of hindsight, like the keystone of his career, joining rave mischief and academic rigor in a sprawling, 100-minute package.

"Octoberland" also arrives with a music video

Go ahead and send those 0.0s to 10.0s to your friends and family

The 22-track effort is out next week

After scaling down her summer tour, Allen dressed up as every pop star's nightmare: a pox of unsold tickets

The shoegaze band teams with producer A. G. Cook for its most pop-leaning record yet. Despite some welcome shifts in tone, the best moments sound like no one but DIIV.

Upstart guitarist Heath Michael Thomas' shaggy, groove-heavy garage rock captures the raucous interplay of a much more practiced band.

The metal supergroup led by the co-founder and spokesperson of the Satanic Temple returns with a provocative, maximalist, and pretty solid second album.

The experimental musician refines her approach to structured repetition on her second solo album of the year, finding melancholic beauty by subtly transforming Americana-inflected loops and patterns.

The band made the animated "Prelude to the End" with visual artist Lauren Tsai

Out now via Tidal

He's on a "temporary break" from his longtime band—but not from performing with other artists

"Underneath the Moon" leads the Canadian duo's follow-up to Waiting Game

Following the deaths of two founding members, the long-in-the-works final album from the Elephant 6 group is a dark, psychedelic epic that unfolds with eerie clairvoyance and intensity.

The Ohio artist's first album in four years is paranoid, indulgent, and theatrical, unfolding like a dark romantasy novel.

Anderson .Paak and Cordae kick back over a suite of boom-bap and trap-adjacent slappers on their lopsided but entertaining collaborative album.

The Austin ensemble makes minimalism feel enveloping and unruly on its latest record, where new melodic details are always emerging from a swarming mass of sound.