Best New Music
Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.
An Undying Love for a Burning World
Neurosis
On their surprise-released first album in 10 years, the psychedelic Bay Area metal veterans launch a vital and affirming second act with new vocalist Aaron Turner.
By Grayson Haver Currin
Girlfriend
Grace Ives
The reigning champ of indie pop returns with a razor-sharp, refreshingly self-serious album that plays like a travelogue from disarray to recovery.
By Hattie Lindert
TIGRAY FUNK
Sideshow
The Tigray-born, DMV-raised rapper’s latest album is a dazed survey of personal highs and lows, his stream-of-consciousness flow riding roughshod over his producers’ strangest beats.
By Dash Lewis
Still Right Here
Zel
The Maryland rapper taps some of SoundCloud’s coolest producers for a full-length solo debut of atmospheric, cybernetic avant-trap. His punch-ins fill more pockets than a tactical vest.
By Olivier Lafontant
Blame the Clown
Twisted Teens
The New Orleans punk duo channels American country and folk music for a raw, righteous, and impressively original sound. Their second record is Southern garage rock at its best.
By Nina Corcoran
“Somewhere Good”
Tara Clerkin Trio
Get swept up in the soft psychedelia from the lead single off the Bristol group’s forthcoming album.
By Jeremy D. Larson
“Oh! Give me something to believe in”
zayok
Footwork clatter and thudding 808s exude yearning emotion on the young producer-songwriter’s patchworked new track.
By Kieran Press-Reynolds
“One Stop”
Aldous Harding
It’s the first marvelous single from the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming album, Train on the Island.
By Emma Madden
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“There Goes My Heart”
Ella Mai
The “Boo’d Up” singer tries to play her cards close to the chest on the opening track from her new album, Do You Still Love Me?
By H.D. Angel
Completely Necessary
The Necessaries
Arthur Russell and Ernie Brooks’ late-’70s rock group has been rendered a historical footnote, but a new anthology captures the nervy brilliance of its guitar-driven new wave.
By Linnie Greene
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The Return of the Durutti Column (Expanded & Remastered)
The Durutti Column
Reissued with demos, live performances, and early recordings, the full-length debut by the mercurial Factory project is as beautiful as it is cerebral, a work of radical non-provocation.
By Brad Shoup
Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)
The Replacements
Packaged with live recordings and studio rarities, the Mats’ 1984 masterpiece gets a thoughtful new box set that illustrates the precarity and magic of their unlikely breakthrough.
By Mitch Therieau
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.
By Stuart Berman
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.
By Bhanuj Kappal
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.
By Sam Sodomsky