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No Treasure But Hope
by Stephen M. Deusner on 5th December 2019 at 6:00 am
The latest album from the long-running English band is one of their most sensuous and sunlit, playing on new shades of hope, love, and melancholy.
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Caroline Says: Ohio River EP
by Abby Jones on 5th December 2019 at 6:00 am
On singer-songwriter Caroline Sallee’s latest EP, everything is transitory—especially life itself.
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NoCap: The Hood Dictionary
by Ben Dandridge-Lemco on 5th December 2019 at 6:00 am
The Alabama rapper’s second project of the year is a mixtape-length “First Day Out” that serves as a timestamp of this moment in his developing career.
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Netflix & Deal
by Sheldon Pearce on 5th December 2019 at 6:00 am
The incarcerated Watts rapper’s latest is a loosely movie-themed collaboration with producer-of-the-moment Kenny Beats.
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Tinashe: Songs for You
by Eric Torres on 4th December 2019 at 6:00 am
After freeing herself from a bad record deal, the multitalented R&B singer celebrates with an effortless LP that fully displays her range.
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Anne Müller: Heliopause
by Andy Beta on 4th December 2019 at 6:00 am
The loops and layers of the Berlin-based cellist’s solo album evoke resonant emotions that could afford to linger.
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Various: Hyperswim
by Ben Cardew on 4th December 2019 at 6:00 am
Kode9’s Hyperdub label celebrates its 15th anniversary by moving confidently beyond the London club music’s conventions.
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Griselda: WWCD
by Evan Rytlewski on 4th December 2019 at 6:00 am
The Buffalo trio’s Shady Records debut doesn’t sacrifice an ounce of their gritty and ruthless throwback aesthetic.
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Somewhere City
by Ian Cohen on 3rd December 2019 at 6:00 am
With their skate-punk shout-alongs and double-tapped guitar heroics, this D.C. duo embodies the sound of emo in 2019.
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Beck: Hyperspace
by Sam Sodomsky on 3rd December 2019 at 6:00 am
On his 14th album, Beck roams across a pleasant, gently psychedelic landscape looking for something new.
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William Patrick Corgan: Cotillions
by Stuart Berman on 3rd December 2019 at 6:00 am
The cantankerous Smashing Pumpkin embraces his vision of country music, but the lightest, breeziest songs of his career come with their own peculiar Corganian paradox.
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Galcher Lustwerk: Information
by Nathan Taylor Pemberton on 3rd December 2019 at 6:00 am
The rapper-producer’s third album answers the exhaustion of contemporary life online by stripping down and buttoning up, yielding a newly disciplined take on his trademark deep house.
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Prince: 1999
by Paul A. Thompson on 2nd December 2019 at 6:00 am
This five-disc set, which includes concert footage, B-sides, and demos, delivers what box sets of this kind almost never do: the thrill of discovery.
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Ducks Unlimited: Get Bleak EP
by Peyton Thomas on 2nd December 2019 at 6:00 am
The Toronto quartet writes lilting, throwback jangle-pop for the isolated and the underemployed.
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Hannah Diamond: Reflections
by Katherine St. Asaph on 2nd December 2019 at 6:00 am
Heavy on vocal processing and maximalist A. G. Cook production, the PC Music star’s first full-length can’t help feeling a little anticlimactic.
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Gavilán Rayna Russom: The Envoy
by Jesse Dorris on 2nd December 2019 at 6:00 am
The New York electronic musician fashions an evocative tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin’s 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, conjuring the flux of gender and desire in shape-shifting sounds.
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The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You
by Andy Cush on 1st December 2019 at 6:00 am
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 revisit the Rolling Stones’ 1981 album, a blueprint for how to exist as an aging, internationally famous rock band.
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Various Artists: Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack
by Sheldon Pearce on 30th November 2019 at 6:00 am
Vince Staples, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Megan Thee Stallion, and more come together for the soundtrack to the modern-day Bonnie-and-Clyde parable, set against a backdrop of police brutality.
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Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas: Deluxe Anniversary Edition
by Rich Juzwiak on 29th November 2019 at 6:00 am
Mariah Carey, the cultural attaché of Christmas, offers a reissue of her 1994 album, which sounds as timeless as possible for music passed through the innocuous filters of mid-’90s adult pop.
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Ballet Slippers
by Grayson Haver Currin on 28th November 2019 at 6:00 am
Pieced together from four Merriweather Post Pavilion-era sets, this live album reinforces the weirdness of the band’s pop heyday.
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Chixtape 5
by Dani Blum on 27th November 2019 at 6:00 am
On the latest installment of his mixtape series, the rapper/singer invites a truckload of guests to flip ’00s R&B hits.
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Blood Incantation: Hidden History of the Human Race
by Jayson Greene on 27th November 2019 at 6:00 am
On their psychedelic and virtuosic second album, the Denver quartet brings death metal to new and exalted places.
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Chet Baker: The Legendary Riverside Albums
by Mark Richardson on 27th November 2019 at 6:00 am
Five albums recorded in the late 1950s capture the skill and the frailty of an acclaimed jazz trumpeter on the brink of disaster.
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Floorplan: Supernatural
by Nathan Smith on 27th November 2019 at 6:00 am
On their second album as a duo, Detroit techno titan Robert Hood and his daughter Lyric sharpen their focus on the fusion of house music and gospel.
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Space Dismension Controller: Love Beyond the Intersect
by Philip Sherburne on 26th November 2019 at 6:00 am
Inside producer Jack Hamill’s sci-fi odysseys, Detroit futurism meets ’80s disco in the neon glow of the chillout room.







