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Watching From a Distance (Reissue)
Warning
On a 20th anniversary reissue, the UK doom metal band’s second—and most recent—album remains one of the genre’s heaviest and most vulnerable statements.
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Tragic Magic
Julianna Barwick / Mary Lattimore
On their debut album together, two longtime friends and peers synthesize their respective styles, seeking out new directions and new ways of connecting.
In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist
Gylt
The Los Angeles hardcore band embraces a sludgy, chaotic sound that plays to their burgeoning strengths.
Quicksand Heart
Jenny on Holiday
On her debut solo album, the English singer-songwriter—and member of Let’s Eat Grandma—channels childlike wonder and joy with euphoric hooks and a nostalgic synth-pop palette.
Love and Fortune
Stella Donnelly
The songwriter performs a penetrating and generous post-mortem of a lost friendship in pearlescent little showstoppers where her voice is often barely adorned at all.
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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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Discipline
King CrimsonEach 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 beautifully labyrinthian 1981 album from a prog-rock institution in search of continuous evolution.
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal ChoirEach 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 on a collection of Communist-era Bulgarian folk recordings that became an unlikely hit for 4AD in the 1980s.
Suburban Tours
RangersEach 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 DIY gem that funneled childhood nostalgia and omnivorous taste through piles of reverb and dirt-cheap equipment to become one of the great guitar records of the 21st century.
Ruby Vroom
Soul CoughingEach 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 1994 debut album from a New York group that mixed up rock, jazz, hip-hop beats, and slam poetry into a brand-new sound that is inextricably linked to its era.
Strangers From the Universe
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282Each 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 an essential talisman of freak music from 1994, a beautifully weird document of a beautifully weird band living out the last daydream of alternative rock.
Giant Steps
The Boo RadleysEach 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 1993 masterpiece from a group of shoegazing Beatles fanatics who went up against Oasis in the battle for the soul of British rock—and lost.
