Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by rounding up albums that have earned high scores and Best New Music designations with a quick list of RIYLs (that’s Recommended If You Like) and links to our coverage.
Unlike our year-end lists, this one is organized in reverse chronological order. To help you keep track of the year’s best music, we’ll be updating it periodically throughout the remainder of 2025.
(All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our retail links, however, Pitchfork may earn an affiliate commission.)
September
Geese: Getting Killed
RIYL: Tapping into the zeitgeist; great New York bands; the sound of Radiohead’s “Bloom” done by a Zappa cover band; being a malcontent; folklore; leaving things in shambles; inimitable and difficult vocals; indie rock that carves a new groove in your brain
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Joanne Robertson: Blurrr
RIYL: Grouper; Beth Orton; unplugged Cocteau Twins; Mica Levi’s film scores; the beach when it’s freezing; emptiness; reverb; Arthur Russell at his loneliest
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Wednesday: Bleeds
RIYL: Greensboro, North Carolina; intraband dynamics; indie alt-country; chapbooks; lap steel; lighting a match and watching it burn; beefed up lo-fi; hearin’ songs on the porch
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought
RIYL: Cap’n Jazz worship; growing up and getting more punk; finger-tapped solos; a healthy amount of nostalgia; irreverent protest chants; intricate guitar interplay; doing Food Not Bombs with your bros; comeback albums that are also an upgrade
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
james K: Friend
RIYL: ASMR; washed linen; whisper-soft vocals; golden-era trip-hop; golden-era dream pop; ambient backrooms; makeout mixtapes
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves
RIYL: Desert romances; silver-screen kisses; David Cronenberg’s Crash; Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs; strange, possibly not-of-this-earth percussion; David Sylvian’s sandpaper rasp; unforeseen second (and third, and fourth) acts
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
August
Blood Orange: Essex Honey
RIYL: Going home to the countryside; organizing old photos; inheriting a record collection; going back to the city; running into Caroline Polachek at the soft opening; listening to Paul Westerberg; remembering Lightspeed Champion
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Greg Freeman: Burnover
RIYL: Long drives through small towns; Magnolia Electric Co.; rustic Springsteen; regional lore; dark humor; New England ghost stories; Sparklehorse; that one guy at the corner store who always has the wildest stories
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love
RIYL: Peak Earl; new heights in lyrical couch-rapping; no easy answers; woozy soul samples; “F**kin Problems”; wearing hoodies day and night; surreal anime; Veeze but slower; equal parts heart and style
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones
RIYL: Jodeci buzzing out of an old radio; workers’ rebellion; arena rock; raw vocals; Prince; Adult Swim bumps; drum machine jams in the garage
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Water From Your Eyes: It’s a Beautiful Place
RIYL: King Crimson if they made indie pop; brainrot Sleigh Bells; wordplay; being on the inside of an inside joke; a couple bangers, a couple interludes; unexpected guitar solos; the existentialism of children’s cartoons; going on the Tilt-A-Whirl and not throwing up
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Dijon: Baby
RIYL: Your personal top favorite 10 Prince songs; assembling those 10 songs on one cassette tape; baking that tape in your 1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass on a summer day; stomping the fuzz pedal; heat checking these chickens; saying “Baby!”
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak
RIYL: Classic singer-songwriters; close harmonies; lyrical Easter eggs; well-wrought characters; unabashed punning; singsong melodies; judicious choogle; saying “peace” to say goodbye
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles: RA.1000
RIYL: The politics of dancing; critical ambient; DJs as storytellers; the power of saying “no”; Palestinian liberation
Listen: SoundCloud
Rio Da Yung OG: F.L.I.N.T. (Feeling Like I’m Not Through)
RIYL: The art of storytelling; Kool G Rap; hotbox freestyles; mic-passing; cigarette-stained raps; edgy humor; villainous Michigan beats
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
No Joy: Bugland
RIYL: Glossy guitars; The NeverEnding Story; peak MBV; non-linear narratives; Fire-Toolz; looking at a Magic Eye poster through a kaleidoscope; highbrow-lowbrow mashups; artful overwhelm
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Amaarae: Black Star
RIYL: Shaking it to the max; shutting down the party; referring to the friend group as “disco sluts”; the transatlantic dance meridian; the sharp taste of ginger; the club as an alternate state of consciousness; synth bass; Céline Dion
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
coatshek: Sound Bath
RIYL: Poppers; sultry minimalism; queer history; the erotics of liminal spaces; DIY ambient techno; quoting Barthes as foreplay; lingering; generous reverb; analog cruising
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
July
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul
RIYL: Following along with the lyrics; bittersweet and self-effacing songwriting; music co-signed by Bill Callahan and David Berman; losers; misdirection; Louisville; literate Southern indie rock; pedal steel 'n' drum 'n' bass
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Che: REST IN BASS
RIYL: Bass-boosted Skullcandy headphones; dentist drill synths; Skrillex; songs about death; Whole Lotta Red; Merzbow
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
$ilkMoney: WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR?
RIYL: Rap hands; the shape and sound of the English language; gospel samples; hundreds of tabs open; the rapture
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Alex G: Headlights
RIYL: Major-label debuts that stay proudly weird; self-interrogation; sly wisdom; being a cool dad; ’90s R.E.M.; a touch of Kermit the Frog; questioning success; mandolin; chiptune detours; bedroom pop intimacy and big-budget production
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
RIYL: Telling war stories about old jobs; Project Blowed; David Lynch; immaculate wordplay; sacred scrolls; whispered wisdom; manga; raps that sound like smirks; having the end of Batman Returns spoiled
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
June
ex_libris: 001 / 002
RIYL: Unexpected comebacks; sampledelia; broken rhythms; deep house; disco breaks; late-night heaters; sluggish delirium; psychoacoustic collage
001: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify
002: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify
Nick León: A Tropical Entropy
RIYL: Ambient reggaeton; the new wave of Latin club music; clubbing in Miami; Joan Didion’s Miami; infinity pools; sunrise on the beach; ASMR; wraparound sunglasses; the buzzing feeling of staying awake too long
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
U.S. Girls: Scratch It
RIYL: Dusty in Memphis; Cat Power’s The Greatest; Nashville (the city); Nashville (the movie); open-hearted irony; complex portrayals of motherhood; wearing sequins to the rodeo; Rickie Lee Jones; haunted homages
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs
RIYL: Flannery O’Connor; Lucinda Williams; closely held superstitions; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Bonnie “Prince” Billy; hometown pride; believing that all dogs go to heaven; observing life from your front porch; bourbon, straight up
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
gyrofield: Suspension of Belief EP
RIYL: ’90s progressive; old-school jungle; synthetic rainforest sounds; ambient breakdowns; nervous breakdowns; controlled mayhem; martial discipline; marching-band snares; cliffhangers and nailbiters
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
James Holden / Wacław Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You
RIYL: Kosmische music; arpeggios; modular synthesis; chance operations; rainbows in curved air; private-press new age tapes; crystals; psilocybin; polyrhythms; trance states; repetition; repetition; repetition
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Annahstasia: Tether
RIYL: Nylon-string guitar; overcast skies; the Weather Station; early Moses Sumney; Cold Specks; singular voices; carrying a torch; having the final word
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal
RIYL: A cappella singing; conceptual art; John Cage; Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies’ slime molds; plant knowledge; antifascist post-humanism; hope
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Hayden Pedigo: I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away
RIYL: John Fahey; Jack Rose; the Texas plains; Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings; blissing out; cowboy hauntology; startling sincerity
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Addison Rae: Addison
RIYL: Ray of Light; vintage American Apparel; Lana at her happiest; classic Britney; Diet Pepsi; Depop searches for “coquette”; opulence; not overthinking it
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Various Artists: Fantología I
RIYL: Enchanted forests; environmental art; Burial; orchestral bells; wind pipes; new age Eccojams; localized Mark Fisher builds; being reincarnated as a field recording
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
May
Heinali / Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko: Гільдеґарда (Hildegard)
RIYL: Hildegard von Bingen; Ukrainian avtentyka singing; minimalist synth music; nameless emotions; songs of sorrow; songs of defiance
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
caroline: caroline 2
RIYL: Packed lineups; democratic decision-making; his-her vocals; multi-tracks gone haywire, ginormous snare reverb; 12-string guitars; Caroline Polachek; Gastr del Sol; Swirlies; spindly melodies; quixotic bliss
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette
RIYL: Snail invasions; EPMD references; aging; rappin’-ass rappin; crosswords; b-boys; funky boom-bap that sounds like it samples the Meters; plum trees; buddhism
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Florry: Sounds Like...
RIYL: Buc-ee’s merch; Drive-By Truckers; shambolic rock; rewatching your favorite movies from childhood; huge riffs; campfire jams; homemade cut-off shorts; kissing your friends
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Smerz: Big city life
RIYL: Day-job ennui; deadpan rapping; half-remembered electroclash; homegrown trip-hop; keyboard presets; the midnight sun; missed connections; Party Girl; Broad City; the freedom of a big city
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Lido Pimienta: La Belleza
RIYL: Anti-imperialism; Gregorian liturgical chant; Indigenous reappropriation; holy yearning; dembow rhythms; challenging the canon; experimental orchestras; drama
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim
RIYL: Mbalax drumming; dub mixology; towering sound systems; polyrhythmic interplay; long-ass songs; meditation; levitation
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
PinkPantheress: Fancy That
RIYL: Coming recommended; getting starstruck; Jacuzzi-jet synth; ballet sneakers; Fabric mixes; logging in with your AIM screenname; “American Boy”
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
billy woods: GOLLIWOG
RIYL: Horrorcore; surrealism; anticolonialism; hauntology; wow and flutter; EVP; deconstructed beats; dissociative beats, sheer terror
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
MIKE / Tony Seltzer: Pinball II
RIYL: Bigger sequels; late-night Lex Luger beats; dropping Visine in red eyes; soft boys going hard; being honest about your flaws; being skeptical about money and power, but not really
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist
RIYL: Fragrantica reviews; phenomenology; dream logic; the relationship between scent and memory; live music as a liminal space; subtle club beats; modern dance; the sounds of the Oslo subway
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
April
William Tyler: Time Indefinite
RIYL: Actually watching, not waiting out, the movie credits; Lia Kohl; loop pedals; Mississippi humidity; buying old family photos at a dilapidated vintage shop; The Sacrificial Code; taking the window seat on multi-hour train trips
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall
RIYL: Scrapbooks; collage; free spirits; false starts; first-thought-best-thought; house shows; unplugging; touching grass; smoking grass; growing grass; that one tape that’s been on the dashboard of your car for like five years, since that road trip you took with your best friend, and still sounds great no matter how garbled it gets
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Djrum: Under Tangled Silence
RIYL: Timelapse videos of nature; drum 'n' bass to chill out to; Floating Points symphonies; Objekt; making a complex, inventive beverage to pair with a piece of buttered toast
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Nazar: Demilitarize
RIYL: Geopolitics; anticolonialism; peace studies; survivor’s tales; kuduro; Burial; rave stabs; reverb; battered patinas; smoke; shrapnel; slivers of light; silver linings
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Maria Somerville: Luster
RIYL: Grouper; the landscape of coastal Ireland; Gothic novels; Cocteau Twins; going to the beach when it’s raining; dream pop; uilleann pipes; frost on the windows
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE
RIYL: Tinned salmon; vintage folding lawn chairs; Bruce Hornsby records; grinning from ear to ear; love’s clarion trumpeters; more fine product collaborations
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean
RIYL: Sea shanties; foghorns; Ravedeath, 1972; Ágætis byrjun; secular acts of worship; always carrying Narcan; “the great blue yonder”; prior accordion experience not required
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Barker: Stochastic Drift
RIYL: Trance without the kick drum; chance music; jazz-not-jazz; engineering; oops all intros; ’90s ambient; deconstructed techno; stereofields; Skee Mask
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Florist: Jellywish
RIYL: Dappled sunlight; reducing, reusing, and recycling; lifelong friendship; minimalist folk; cosmic ambient; getting really stoned and going to the aquarium; pondering mortality
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz
RIYL: Every genre you’ve ever heard; Drain Gang when they have joie de vivre; Pokémon fanfic; Julio Torres; dying on arcade games; hyperpop wunderkinds; sensory obliteration tanks; sci-fi EDM; emo rap with plausible deniability; playing Skrillex and the Chainsmokers in separate tabs and thinking it’s one song that kind of slays
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us
RIYL: Backpacking across India; private afters at Ibizan villas; warped cassette tapes; warm fuzzies; schlager; Afro-house; a blurrier Blur; a kindlier Keinemusik; breathing exercises; golden sunsets
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Skrillex: F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3
RIYL: Self-deprecating humor; mixtapes; vocal fry; quick cuts; hyperpop; hyperactive pop; video-game soundtracks; “Will It Blend?” videos; monster-truck announcers; monster bass; deadly beats; resurrection
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
March
aya: hexed!
RIYL: Trips to the dentist; unrelenting Britishisms; laser pistols; SOPHIE’s “Faceshopping”; Federici’s Caliban and the Witch; eye of newt; tongue of frog; how changing your gender changes reality
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie
RIYL: Chilled red; midlife crisis literature; bologna sandwiches; Bowie/Eno; barbershop quartet in Purgatory; auditioning younger actors for your biopic
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs
RIYL: Meditative piano; native plants in bloom; Music for Airports; sitting on a bench at a James Turrell exhibit; sunlight through stained glass; Ryuichi Sakamoto; seeing how long you can hold a note
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
DJ Python: i was put on this earth EP
RIYL: Sensory deprivation tanks; hushed, cozy beats; slinking around the club by yourself; pre-cringe James Blake; softboy vocals
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Perfume Genius: Glory
RIYL: Exposure therapy; dyeing your hair blonde as a trauma response; the phrases “featuring Aldous Harding” and “produced by Blake Mills”; agoraphobia; ragged guitar solos; tasteful flutes; sneaky disillusion; quiet wisdom
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka
RIYL: Ceremonial music in the club; Boredoms; rough edges; raw Chicago footwork; arrhythmia; keytars; cowboy hats; spamming samples in DJ sets; “if you ain’t red-lining, you ain’t headlining”; collapsing the distant past and present
Listen/Buy: Bandcamp
YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds
RIYL: Psychotic art rock; drummers; New York noise rock; Battles; Hella; rototoms; bands so tight they sound electronic
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Sharp Pins: Radio DDR
RIYL: Power pop done right; yung Guided by Voices; Royal Headache; big lo-fi hooks; Chicago rock; DIY spaces; a pill that makes you stay young forever
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Lady Gaga: MAYHEM
RIYL: Having a formative Andy Warhol phase as a teenager; maximalism; analog synths; the concept of lipsyncing for your life; this photo of David Bowie and Trent Reznor hanging out; a touch of funk; campy horror movies; inventing your own nachos
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Truck Violence: Violence
RIYL: Model/Actriz; Modest Mouse; Deafheaven; “weightlifting music” generally; the tortured artist; the intentionally ugly; getting it off your chest
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
RIYL: Alan Watts; jiu-jitsu; meditation retreats; Total Refreshment Centre; woolly sweaters; baby animals; joining a The Artist’s Way book club
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
February
Marie Davidson: City of Clowns
RIYL: Anti-capitalism; open-source software; culture-jamming; UbuWeb; the Electronic Frontier Foundation; 2000s electroclash; gabber remixes; self-aware bangers that aren’t afraid to break a sweat
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Ichiko Aoba: Luminescent Creatures
RIYL: Free diving; folktronica; music boxes; Burt Bacharach; full moons; glowing tides; weightlessness; the softest blanket ever
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift
RIYL: Beach Boys; beach buoys; stacked harmonies; distilled essences; family reunions; midlife crises; new beginnings; simple pleasures; the golden light of Lisbon
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
John Glacier: Like a Ribbon
RIYL: Dean Blunt; King Krule; SSENSE; NTS; natural wines; autumn leaves; the after-afters
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Kelela: In the Blue Light
RIYL: Friday night at the jazz club; Sunday mornings at home; celestial harps; acoustic soul; Betty Carter; Joni Mitchell; the scent of jasmine
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Oklou: choke enough
RIYL: Going on a date to the Met Cloisters; Caroline Polachek; Bladee; Baroque polyphony; e-girl aesthetics; Y2K nostalgia; making memes about Enya but also genuinely loving Enya
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
January
MIKE: Showbiz!
RIYL: Introspection; introversion; intricate wordplay; extended rhyme schemes; hypnagogic drift; hip-hop history; psychedelic sample flips; hard-won wisdom
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room
RIYL: PJ Harvey; Julianna Barwick; David Lynch; attic rooms; taxidermy; RCA cables; “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned”
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
OsamaSon: Jump Out
RIYL: Distorted 808s; Carti worship; bass-boosted edits; shitposting as a love language; “ok is the hardest”; dunking on leakers
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
Benjamin Booker: LOWER
RIYL: Rage and resilience; an unexpected Kenny Segal collaboration; bluesy Yves Tumor; a dreamy ode to gay bars; righteous provocations; corroded textures
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Ale Hop / Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko
RIYL: Hallucinogenic dance music; soukous guitar; Ghanaian highlife; Latin cumbia; synth horns; bit-crushed drums; fireworks finales; dream sequences
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidal
FKA twigs: EUSEXUA
RIYL: Ray of Light; Vespertine; “I Feel Love”; strobe lights; Simonson technique; fetish couture; kissing a stranger at the club
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
The Weather Station: Humanhood
RIYL: Re-reading Braiding Sweetgrass; somatic therapy; social media detoxes; Joni Mitchell deep cuts; long life-affirming conversations with friends; a little jazz, a little banjo; quilting as a metaphor
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Rough Trade | Spotify | Tidal
Bad Bunny: DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
RIYL: Hot coffee on hot afternoons; pouring rum in coffee; street music; salsa; dembow; collapsing the past and the present sounds of Puerto Rico; songs about sexy ladies on the beach; songs that will make you call your mom
Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal
December
Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal
RIYL: Classic rock; soft rock; close-harmonized vocals; theatrical vibrato; exploratory falsetto; unabashed melodrama; states of innocence; songs about mononymic women; theological subtexts; the warble of warped vinyl; the vicissitudes of migrating geese
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