Best New Music
Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.
Best New Albums
I Tried to Tell You
KP Skywalka
Embellishing DMV drill with retro R&B, Southern-style storytelling, and striking moments of vulnerability, the DC rapper’s album is simultaneously regional and singular.
Tranquilizer
Oneohtrix Point Never
Drawing on a cache of commercial sample CDs, Daniel Lopatin assembles an impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration.
Out the Blue
WNC WhopBezzy / 70th Street Carlos
On their breakout album, the Baton Rouge rappers wear the championship belt for best duo out of the city, churning out big trash-talking tunes with fat-ass basslines made to set the clubs off.
Rhythm Immortal
Carrier
The Brussels-based producer fled the strictures of techno and drum’n’bass in search of a freer sound. On his astonishing debut LP under a new alias, he seems to rewrite the laws of physics.
Best New Tracks
“Dopamine”
Robyn
The Swedish pop singer’s first song in seven years is a big shot of what she does best: pop euphoria and desire on the dancefloor.
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“Nuketown Blues”
Rooster
The sludgy trunk-rattler is the centerpiece of a new solo album from Sad Boys-affiliated producer Gud, aka Rooster.
“Sé Miimii” [ft. DJ Skycee]
Miimii KDS
Miimii KDS is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.
Best New Reissues
1985: The Miracle Year
Hüsker Dü
A set of previously unreleased live recordings captures the Minneapolis hardcore trio at peak ferocity. It’s a welcome corrective to the tinny production of their studio albums.
Punjabi Disco
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
Naya Beat reissues the first-ever British Asian electronic dance album—a joyous, loose-limbed romp through Punjabi-tinged disco, funk, psychedelia, and proto-acid house.
Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition
Bruce Springsteen
A new box set, which includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, tells the complete story of one of the most foundational and lonesome records in rock music.
E•mo•tion (10th Anniversary Edition)
Carly Rae Jepsen
The pop star’s technicolor breakthrough sounds as radiant as ever on a deluxe edition, whose bonus material only highlights the magic of the album proper.
Black Mahogani
Moodymann
Newly pressed on vinyl, the elusive producer’s 2004 masterpiece is a love letter to Black Detroit and one of the most ambitious house records of all time.
Joy in Repetition
Hot Chip
Drolly titled and curiously sequenced, the London electro-pop quintet’s best-of collection highlights the group’s deadpan humor, winning tenderness, and remarkable consistency.