In Iceland with the experimental pop icon, digging deep into the triumphs and tragedies that birthed her remarkable new album, Fossora

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The most influential frontman of his generation is also the least at ease with it. He discusses abandoning rock norms, singing from the gut and treading the fine line between cryptic and gooey on new...

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 masterful chamber-pop of XTC’s 1986 album...

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The Bristol punk band’s third album goes for fist-in-the-air righteousness but stumbles over itself at nearly every turn, resulting in a broad and unfocused attempt to speak to the moment.

As the band launch their online ‘public library’, we look back at every track they have released, and pick the absolute best

The Bajan-British rapper’s debut tackles the UK’s pressing crises—a looming Brexit, class hostility, widening poverty—with great jokes and writerly candor.

Continuing our series on music fandom, Jazz Monroe celebrates the kind adult who laboured over a clean tape edit of the Streets debut – call it Original Pirated Material

Kieran Hebden is now playing arenas in a bromance with Fred Again and Skrillex. In a rare interview, he talks authenticity, bootlegging Taylor Swift – and his landmark legal battle with his old label

Arctic Monkeys’ daring sixth album is a left-turn if ever there was one, but the way Alex Turner swaps witty sleaze for absurdist suave makes it a totally bemusing and fascinating listen.

In this Rising interview, the composer talks about mystical synth frequencies, the racist undertones of certain jazz institutions, and why she doesn’t want to be known as “the harp lady.”

The social justice crusaders have run into trouble, according to men online, and the left’s in a pickle: it’s backed itself into a corner, you see, with its scandalous obsession with identity...

In this Rising interview, members of the expansive British band discuss the folk traditions and feelings of hope behind their music.

A dispatch from the barstool resistance, Mike Skinner’s sensationally successful debut album loomed over generations of English social commentary, inspiring artists from Little Simz to The 1975,...

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Electronic artists ranging from Jayda G to Róisín Murphy to Lorenzo Senni sound off on a year without dancefloor catharsis for their songs, and themselves. These are their imagined raves.

Photo by Valerio Berdini It was my first time seeing Lucinda Chua live, and the location was ideal: a long, narrow hallway, situated deep inside the illustrious Somerset House complex. The room had a...

The British post-punk group’s mastermind died following a “short respiratory illness”

Jazz Monroe is a journalist based in London, specializing in music and culture. He has been writing for Pitchfork for eight years and occasionally contributes to The Guardian.

In this Rising interview, the Danish songwriter talks about swallowing a tiny camera for art, moving to a commune in the woods, and synthesizing the melancholy with the uncanny in her modern love...

Artists Beth Jeans Houghton, Alanna McArdle, and Visionist, labels Fortuna Pop and Captured Tracks, and industry experts weigh in.

Forget genres: this Obama press officer turned noncomformist pop star is in the business of crafting entire worlds of music for a truly inclusive society

Running his instrument through a bevy of effects, the virtuoso cellist summons a powerful, mesmerizing sound variously evoking shoegaze, classical minimalism, drone, and doom metal.

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Why the Swedish popmasters’ surprising reunion is safe from the pitfalls of revivalism.

No longer at home in a leather jacket, Turner has developed an immunity to rock’n’roll bravado, dressing like a supply teacher and addressing the audience sparingly, with suave grunts or slurred...

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He invented the 12in single and introduced Grace Jones to the world – and at 80 years old is busy pumping out new remixes from quarantine

Two documentaries—one new, one newly resurfaced—nod to the Depechemania that gripped the Eastern Bloc.

Amid a water-spraying cruise around London, the unruly trio pull back the curtain on their new album Hellfire and trade theories on why Muse, Green Day, and (especially) Ed Sheeran are so repellent.

Here’s what you need to know about the new film showcasing her instantly iconic 2018 Beychella performance.

Deemed a voice of his generation when he was only a teenager, Archy Marshall returns with The Ooz, an odyssey through the disenchanted worlds inside and outside his skull.

Full of alarms, arrhythmic pulses and deep bass, Hecker’s eerie work feels as if it’s bracing for cataclysm – but is nevertheless rich, warm and inviting

From confessional punk memoirs to a self-help book by Questlove, there’s something here for every genre of music nerd.

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood premiered material at the first of three livestreamed in-the-round concerts, further revealing how their new band compares to their long history.

Snafus involving the ethereal ’80s bands illustrate how streaming platforms make an imperfect replacement for old-fashioned album-listening

The wonderfully anarchic British post-punk outfit tries out a little of everything on their promising debut EP.

'American Coffee' by Jenny Hval is taken from new album 'Classic Objects', out now via 4AD. Listen to the album here: https://jennyhval.ffm.to/classicobjects...

Jazz Monroe: Notes on Process [SPECIAL EDITION] I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. I highlight...

Based in London and Freetown, Sierra Leone, the composer, pianist, producer, professional soccer player, fashion designer, cookbook author, and Kendrick Lamar collaborator is creating his own DIY...

Father of the Bride pairs airy jaunts with obsessions over romantic doom and complacency, but arcs towards redemption and renewal

Big names like the Killers, alt-J and a surprise Liam Gallagher flounder, but there’s buried treasure from Nao, IAMDDB and Octavian lower down the bill

Brandon Flower's waxwork smile can’t decide whether to sell you a car or a chorus. It’s weird, and weirdly magnetic

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The guitarist is recovering from coronavirus – a pandemic he says is a global wake-up call – and releasing the solo album he finally plucked up the courage to make

Ruban Nielson’s mildew-covered fourth record continues UMO’s long journey inward, pinballing between love and indifference, bops and dirges, pop and its opposite.

The Radiohead leader unveiled a new side of his art at the Philharmonie de Paris.

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The London artist talks about bringing the sound of his city to the world and defying authority at every turn in his Rising interview.