Best New Music
Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.

Punching the Clown
Lambchop
Kurt Wagner reinvents his band yet again, this time slimming down to a bare-bones acoustic setup and stripping away the studio artifice. But his storytelling remains as expansive as ever.
By Sam Sodomsky

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L’Rain
The experimental Brooklyn project returns with a serene and spectral new album, using an ever-shifting musical backdrop to explore themes of illusion and doubt.
By Stephen Kearse
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Lost Weekend
Phoebe Bridgers
For her third solo album, Phoebe Bridgers expands and contracts, capturing experiences that are strange, solitary, and hers alone. It is the quietest, most cohesive record in her discography.
By Sam Sodomsky

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Nino Paid
There are many rappers out there who dig deep into their lives for heavy stories of pain and sorrow. The DMV rapper does this too, but he elevates the art form to a whole new level.
By Alphonse Pierre

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Natal Zaks brings dub techno to a higher level on an energetic and atmospheric 2x12", another pin in the lapel of the new and outstanding Short Span label.
By H.D. Angel

Music, Fashion, Film
Charli xcx
On the follow-up to BRAT, the pop auteur pivots to a referential, proudly tossed-off rock sound that offers mystifying glances behind the curtain of stardom.
By Anna Gaca

“Anonymat”
Lov’nee
The Martinician rapper-singer’s new single has a little something for everyone.
By Alphonse Pierre


“Who’s That”
The War on Drugs
The one-off single, produced by Adam Granduciel, is a refined and revealing entry in the band’s catalog.
By Jeremy D. Larson

“Everything in the shade”
Fine
The Danish songwriter’s dreamy piano ballad is a love letter composed en plein air.
By Walden Green
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“I Can’t Wait”
Phoebe Bridgers
Cameron Winter sidles up to the mic to duet with Phoebe on a standout track from her new record, Lost Weekend.
By Walden Green

“Autosmile”
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The Philly duo’s tender, faintly medieval-sounding folk song has its hands clasped and its heart on its sleeve.
By Lily Goldberg

12 Golden Country Greats (Deluxe Edition)
Ween
Time has been good to Dean and Gene’s kidding-not-kidding country pivot, recorded with seasoned Nashville pros, and this triple-disc reissue helps contextualize its joy and incongruity.
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Complete B Sides: 1988-97 (Remaster)
Pixies
Originally released in 2001 and newly remastered, the collection of B-sides testifies to the alt-rock icons’ trademark eccentricity while cranking up the deviance.
By Ben Cardew

Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Charanjit Singh
A new reissue revisits the Mumbai composer’s 1982 album of Roland TB-303 and Indian raga, which uncannily anticipated the sound of Chicago acid house by five years.
By Vrinda Jagota

Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings
Miles Davis
A new box set, assembled for Davis’ centennial, collects a casually superlative set of recordings from the icon and his all-star quintet that seems to distill jazz’s past and peer into its future.
By Natalie Weiner

Images of Life
Ted Lucas
In 1975, the Detroit singer self-released a perfect document of private-press folk. A rich new box set finally reveals more of his story in psychedelic sound.
By Grayson Haver Currin
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Super Mario Galaxy / Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mahito Yokota / Koji Kondo
Fusing whimsical electronics and a full symphony orchestra, the Galaxy soundtracks channeled the wide-screen ambition of Hollywood scores, marking a new era for game music.
By Billie Bugara