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The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Oct 6, 2025 · There’s a 1976 Eve Babitz essay about a magazine reporter who noses into a scoop while watching Elizabeth Taylor eat room-service caviar with onion, right in front of the used car salesman …

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Dec 5, 2023 · Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2023 wrap-up coverage here. Note: This list includes albums released in December 2022. Anything that came out after we published our Best of 2022 list was …

Oct 2, 2009 · The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s From M.I.A. to Four Tet, Kanye West to Joanna Newsom—and the many sides of Radiohead, too—here are the albums who defined the decade By …

Jun 12, 2026 · you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is split into two parts: the first a breathless play-by-play of an intense romance; the second an account of its demise. The A-side is 25 minutes of …

May 12, 2026 · Chris Brown’s soulless, hit-chasing new album doesn’t justify his return to the public eye.

Oct 1, 2024 · The decade has brought us major-label blockbusters, indie favorites, the world’s greatest Geocities gem, and more. Here are some of the best albums the 2020s have had to offer.