A playlist of 124 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz In the spirit of holiday excess and end-of-the-year summation, we’re about to make Amplifier ...

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The album may be imperiled ...

January 2, 2024 • Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.

As our new digital homelands power global connectivity, the world has shrunk, and Afropop’s fandom has grown. Young powerhouses like Tyla, Amaarae, and Libianca set new trends at the head of a class ...

Listen to Pitchfork’s favorite songs of 2023 and you’re bound to be blown back by the full spectrum of human emotion: the dizzying high of new love (“Rush,” “Padam Padam,” “Super Shy”), the vengeful ...

While the streaming-age unbundling of albums broke down the idea of what a single could be even further, the year’s best songs all shook things up in their own right. Club-ready tracks from Beyoncé, ...

Electronic music typically gets boiled down to a handful of qualities, even by fans: It’s euphoric, energetic, at times utopian. For the ambient heads, it’s calming, meditative, and spiritually ...

“I don’t know how to feel, but I wanna try,” sang Billie Eilish, as Barbie, and in 2023, some of us knew exactly how she felt. (Or couldn’t.) Fortunately, there are about 35 million songs a year being ...

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