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Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)
Daniel Lopatin
Best New Album
The electronic composer meets the larger-than-life film on its level, building the palette he’s honed over the years into a totalizing prism of sound.
Implosion
The Bug / Ghost Dubs
The dub veterans bring out the best in each other with a collaborative album that balances lumbering doom with spacey ambience.
Soulja Hate Repellant
Niontay
One of MIKE’s roster of rap mavericks, Niontay probes the deepest, murkiest corners of his sound on this 454-hosted mixtape, blurring his influences and slurring his bars with abandon.
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir
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 look back on a collection of Communist-era Bulgarian folk recordings that became an unlikely hit for 4AD in the 1980s.
You Want That Too!
Max Jaffe
With assists from Jeff Parker, Meg Duffy, and others, the versatile drummer’s latest album stakes its claim at the shifting border between jazz and electronic music.
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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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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.
Resurrection
CommonEach 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 Chicago rapper’s second album, a powerful, multidimensional record that put the MC and his hometown on the map.
