Best New Music
Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.

Jazz dreams
Fine
The Danish artist achieves a beguiling flow state on her second solo album: a set of future standards full of empty space.
By Hattie Lindert

Alchemical Sisters
Alchemical Sisters
For their collaborative full-length debut, Eris Drew and Octo Octa hunkered down in their New Hampshire cabin to craft a celebratory, sample-heavy tribute to the maximalist dance music of yore.
By Andrew Ryce

Stick Around for Tea
Worldpeace DMT
The irreverent duo of Leo Fincham and Rowan Please plies its brilliantly digitized indie-pop bricolage on an album with the ragtag splendor of a low-budget musical.
By Samuel Hyland

DJ-Kicks
Djrum
The UK selector throws caution—and genre—to the winds on an audacious 82-minute set that careens between ambient, drill’n’bass, post-punk, breakcore, and more.
By Ben Cardew


A Mile South of Heaven
Jess Williamson
Torn between Texas and Topanga but fully herself, the songwriter sounds at home in the outlaw country idiom on an intimate, searching new record produced by Shooter Jennings.
By Sadie Sartini Garner

“Born Again”
Star Moles
Following her 2026 breakthrough, Highway to Hell, Philly songwriter Emily Moales marks her signing to Dead Oceans with a chugging, conversational new single.
By Walden Green


“Free Byrd”
Lily Konigsberg
The Palberta and My Idea songwriter returns with a bittersweet, feel-good solo anthem.
By Lily Goldberg

“Anonymat”
Lov’nee
The Martinician rapper-singer’s new single has a little something for everyone.
By Alphonse Pierre


“Who’s That”
The War on Drugs
The one-off single, produced by Adam Granduciel, is a refined and revealing entry in the band’s catalog.
By Jeremy D. Larson

Back to Black (20th Anniversary Edition)
Amy Winehouse
Even with unreleased demos on the tracklist, there’s hardly anything to add to Amy Winehouse’s 2006 blockbuster, one of the all-time great breakup albums.
By Rich Juzwiak

The Party (10th Anniversary Edition)
Andy Shauf
Tracing the events of a single evening, the Canadian songwriter’s cult-favorite concept album gets a new reissue with demos and outtakes that add darker shades to its intimate, soft-rock vignettes.
By Lily Goldberg
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My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition)
Elvis Costello
A 104-track box set fleshes out the seemingly out-of-nowhere brilliance of Elvis Costello’s debut: a portrait of the artist as a fidgety young man, trying on literal and figurative hats.
By Elizabeth Nelson

Rubber Soul (Super Deluxe)
The Beatles
Pop and art, stereo and mono, Britain and America, John and Paul: An expansive reissue of one of the 20th century’s most important works of art suspends its heady contradictions in a state of perfect flux.
By Andy Cush

Landlocked
Hallucinator
Expanding dub techno’s spare grid toward rave and industrial, the UK trio’s newly reissued 1999 compilation summons roiling synth, excoriating feedback, and percussion that feels almost improvisatory.
By Philip Sherburne
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Eternal (Live)
Joy Division
A 16-disc box set captures 14 months of live sets from the post-punk titans’ prime. Despite their dour reputation, they prove consistently thrilling on stage, led by Ian Curtis’ whirlwind intensity.
By Sean T. Collins