Tag Archives: Albums

While touring behind her last album, Dance Fever, Florence Welch was hospitalized for an ectopic miscarriage; the singer channeled the effects of that life-altering, traumatic event into work for a follow-up. For the resulting Everybody Scream, Welch dove into medieval and renaissance studies and the history of witchcraft and mysticism, shrouding her characteristically vivid chamber pop with even deeper pathos …

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new projects from Tame Impala, Sudan Archives, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Silvana Estrada, Monaleo, Bar Italia, Ty Dolla …

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Taylor Swift, Malibu, Kelly Moran, Snooper, Nala Sinephro, Thirteendegrees º, Peel Dream Magazine, Blue Lake, Klein, Prewn, and …

After their wedding in 2013, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires became an alternative-country power couple, a Johnny and June for the social media age. So when reports surfaced back in February 2024 that Isbell had filed for divorce, their fans were left in shock. Their relationship troubles were the backdrop of Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed, a 2023 …

We may finally have Bruce Springsteen’s Electric Nebraska and Neil Young’s Homegrown, but artifacts by everyone from the Beatles to Bob Seger remain stubbornly unreleased Up until about a few years ago, the classic-rock vault was overflowing with audio and video treasures that fans had little reason to think would ever see the light of day. Some of them had leaked out in partial …

In 2016, after the release of their seventh album, Home on Native Land, the tape stopped rolling on the Hidden Cameras. A reissue of their debut album as a full band came in 2023, and, now, the Toronto indie-pop darlings are back with more of songwriter Joel Gibb’s self-described “gay folk church music.” Bronto enlists the likes of Pet Shop …

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have raised the bar. After leaving Spotify earlier this summer over the streaming platform CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI drone technology, the Australian psych rockers have made their music more accessible on Bandcamp by switching to a name-your-price model for fans looking to access their digital catalog. “Can we put pressure on these Dr. …

While Oasis, Blur, and, to some degree, Pulp rake it in with reunions bankrolled by nostalgia, Suede are still plugging away as a working band of Britpop survivors. Antidepressants, their 10th studio album, channels their usual mix of light social commentary and first-person misadventure in songs as full-throatedly anthemic as anything in their catalog. Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen …

Reaching over 10 billion streams with a single album on Spotify is no small feat, so it’s no surprise that only a select few artists have achieved this milestone with multiple projects. The latest album to join this exclusive club is Taylor Swift’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, Reputation, featuring timeless hits like “Look What You Made Me Do” and …

It is hard for anyone to deny the positive effect that the transition from film to digital has had on photography. The sheer number of photographs taken each year has increased exponentially in the digital age, particularly now that cameras are included on nearly every cell phone. But we have lost one aspect of photography: the photo album. The advantages …