The “vocal bible” of pop R&B returns with her first album in eight years, sounding poised and warm but lacking some spark.
On her solo debut, the L.A.-based singer and songwriter taps members of the War on Drugs and Warpaint for winning songs about finding delight in despair.
The composer turns to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 for inspiration in his bittersweet new orchestral work.
Featuring habitual collaborators like Jamael Dean and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, the L.A. percussionist and producer’s sprawling, shape-shifting seventh album finds joy in unexpected connections.
In this Rising interview, the Brooklyn-based R&B experimentalist talks about how music, spirituality, and community help her to heal.
A discussion of the late rapper’s life and influence, on the latest episode of our new podcast The Pitchfork Review
FINNEAS explores the sounds that sparked his greatest musical breakthroughs in this episode of “Critical Breakthroughs”
Short and fleeting yet bound by a shared aesthetic vision, these 20 songs capture in-between feelings—anticipation, longing, eagerness, hesitation, indecision—with sensitivity and specificity.
The second nominally solo album from the former Yuck frontman uses improvisation, repetition, and group interplay as ways of breaking free of traditional modes of songwriting.
Recorded in a Brooklyn church as the first installment of a trilogy, the new age pioneer’s latest shows him returning to his first instrument—the piano.
The enigmatic Philadelphia producer’s latest release submerges vocals in dark interiors, suggesting that the truth may lie just under the surface of our perception.
