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Sluice
The North Carolina folk-rock band’s quiet and rambling third album exists in a cloud of dreamy contemplation.
THE COMEDOWN
smokedope2016
Cloud rap’s golden era lives on this trilogy-closing new album from smokedope2016, whose candidly emotional raps and misty, holographic production recall Yung Lean.
Ö
Fcukers
Downtown New York’s breakout dance stars play to their club-rat reputation while stocking their debut with Y2K electro-pop and UK garage beats.
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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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BrandyEach 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 Brandy’s futuristic, full-hearted 2002 record, an album so lush and expertly crafted that it became the new blueprint for the pop-R&B sound.
Straight From the Heart
Patrice RushenEach 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 1982 breakthrough from a California pianist and songwriter whose effortless fusion of R&B, disco, and jazz defied any attempts to pin her down.
I Could Live in Hope
LowEach 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 epiphanic debut album from the Duluth slowcore band whose fragile, insistent sound was entirely its own from the beginning.
Dare Iz a Darkside
RedmanEach 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 New Jersey rap icon’s paranoid, insular, largely self-produced 1994 album, an East Coast G-funk classic under the influence.
Justified
Justin TimberlakeEach 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 a 2002 debut that launched a whole cultural phenomenon by borrowing the hottest R&B moves of the day to mint a shiny new pop star.
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Scritti PolittiEach 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.
Behind the Magnolia Curtain
Tav Falco’s Panther BurnsEach 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 a cult 1981 garage rock record steeped in Memphis lore. With Alex Chilton as his sideman, the provocative Tav Falco brought blues and rockabilly screaming into the post-punk era.
