Reviews
- Brandy
B7
The “vocal bible” of pop R&B returns with her first album in eight years, sounding poised and warm but lacking some spark.
- Jess Cornelius
Distance
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.
- Max Richter
Voices
The composer turns to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 for inspiration in his bittersweet new orchestral work.
- Carlos Niño & Friends
Actual Presence
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.
The Latest
Features & Videos
KeiyaA’s Divine Soul
In this Rising interview, the Brooklyn-based R&B experimentalist talks about how music, spirituality, and community help her to heal.
Pop Smoke’s Legacy and the Sound of Brooklyn Rap
A discussion of the late rapper’s life and influence, on the latest episode of our new podcast The Pitchfork Review
FINNEAS Demos How He Builds Songs for Billie Eilish
FINNEAS explores the sounds that sparked his greatest musical breakthroughs in this episode of “Critical Breakthroughs”
More Recent Reviews
- Liv.e
Couldn’t Wait to Tell You
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.
- Daniel Blumberg
On&On
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.
- Laraaji
Sun Piano
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.
- Pontiac Streator
Triz
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.