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 ultra slick, deliciously clever record where the UK band deconstructed pop music only to build it back up even better.

Exploring one of their least renowned periods—and featuring the first official release of the lost album Adult/Child—a new box set finds the Beach Boys at their best, worst, and most human.

Every Saturday, we're going deep on one song we've never reviewed before. This week, we look back at the humble origins of an everlasting power ballad from 1998. Discussed: bespoke guitar tunings, Wim Wenders, and Buffalo, New York.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premieres August 7

The heady croak and sleazy spirit of YSL live on in a new track from buzzing Atlanta rap collective ØWay.

Dando has since been hospitalized for mental-health treatment, a representative says

The Trying Times tour includes stops in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia

The free-jazz quintet tapped Helado Negro and New York-based vocalist Motherboard for their follow-up to 2023's Protect Your Light

Also stream new releases from Jill Scott and August Ponthier

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, a formal reconsideration of the Hudlin Brothers' 1990 teen comedy House Party, plus bracing the cold for hot beats and gyros, and a lost Auto-Tune R&B gem from 2007.

Mutiny After Midnight arrives in March

Her first release under the alias since 2025's Ghostholding

"Eyes Of The World" appears in Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel

The Swedish artist has also lined up shows with Robyn and Wolf Alice

Justin Tripp finds a balance between no-frills punk and acid-blotted experiments on a heavy, weary, pissed-off new album.

femtanyl make computer music that wants to mosh. The bitcrushed hardcore rave tracks on the duo's debut LP are sometimes thrilling and sometimes too much.

The Ann Arbor producer dusts off an alias he used on a 1996 ambient-techno classic and gives his jazzy, atmospheric dance music a jolt of fresh energy.

The young New York-based songwriter Zion Battle's debut channels the heartfelt charm of bedroom pop and the distorted fuzz of 1990s indie rock.

A remastered version of 1982's Songs to Remember arrives April 10 via Rough Trade

The Atlanta rapper flexes her way through Kassgocrazy's supercharged chaos on a standout from new tape Straight Pop.

The British rapper drives an old Aston Martin, drinks whiskey, and digs his own grave

Djo and Dominic Fike will provide support

"Need Someone" appears in the latest episode of the HBO medical drama

"Flags," from War Child's new compilation, also features Johnny Marr, Jarvis Cocker, and more

On the latest album from his DJ alias, Caribou's Dan Snaith ups the tempo and doubles down on big-room oomph, sacrificing some of the appealing eccentricity of his best work.

Crammed with digital texture and waterlogged by synthetic ocean chorales, the underground pop producer's new album sinks under the weight of prog ambition.

The London-based artist maps the human-machine interface on his latest EP, wrapping a fuzzed-out wall of guitars in uncanny layers of Auto-Tuned vocals.

The Toronto band's third album is a headlong pop-punk sugar rush.

Jack Antonoff and co.'s fifth studio full-length, Everyone for Ten Minutes, arrives May 22

Ranken was a founding member of the Irish punk outfit

M.C. Taylor will share his follow-up to 2023's Jump for Joy on May 1

Primary Wave acquired her work for an undisclosed sum

The DC punks are previewing The Beltway Is Burning with "Lil Xan Goes to Washington"

After its initial run from 2015 to 2019, the Wisconsin festival is headed to Carson Park

Little Wide Open is produced by Aaron Dessner and features contributions from Justin Vernon and Lucinda Williams

The latest single from Play Me laments encroaching technology

Listen to the first of her four new songs on the mix, "Los Poemas No Siempre Riman"

The brooding R&B singer's fourth album gets bogged down by unspecific songwriting and listless vocals, despite some compelling production choices.

With a tone that's equally anxious and lovesick, the British singer confronts domestic bliss and finds her stride.

A geologist by day and pedal-steel virtuoso by night, Walker leads his bandmates in a stripped-down ambient country set attuned to the seismic forces that have shaped the Pacific Northwest.

Under her latest alias, Angel Marcloid offers a beguiling collection of modular synth experiments that cycle between harsh textures and monochromatic expanses.

Titane star Agathe Rousselle directed the music video for "Your Eyes"—the lead single from Orange

Pete Ohs' film follows Charli XCX's Bethany around Warsaw as she waits out the aftermath of a volcanic eruption

He also shared an album trailer, which features a cameo from Kendrick Lamar

The band will release Theft World through Partisan Records on May 1st

Dancing on the Wall, the trio's fourth LP, arrives in May

A six-month trek across North America and Europe behind new album Peaches!

One for themselves and one with the B-52's

Support acts on the North American dates include Sunny Day Real Estate, Rise Against, Motion City Soundtrack, and Pup

Four new DJ E edits of the Bolivian singer Luzmila Carpio