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Best New Music

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

cantu of the sower EP

heavensouls

“expectations”

Olivia Rodrigo
Jazz dreams

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.
Alchemical Sisters

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.
Stick Around for Tea

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.
DJ-Kicks

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.
Autosmile

Autosmile

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The Philly duo’s folk music radiates a special kind of energy. Their second album is tinged with psychedelia, a wicker wunderkammer of songs, spells, and secrets.
A Mile South of Heaven

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.
Star Moles Will Make You a Believer on “Born Again”

“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.
It’s Easy to Fall in Love With Tinashe’s “Popstar”

“Popstar”

Tinashe
The title track of the artist’s first major label album in eight years is its lighters-up climax.
Roll the Windows Down for Lily Konigsberg’s “Free Byrd”

“Free Byrd”

Lily Konigsberg
The Palberta and My Idea songwriter returns with a bittersweet, feel-good solo anthem.
The New-Old Shatta Bounce of Lov’nee’s “Anonymat”

“Anonymat”

Lov’nee
The Martinician rapper-singer’s new single has a little something for everyone.
Slip Into kllhhr’s “skin”

“skin”

kllhhr
The ambient rapper’s surprise breakout single is a barren transmission from the other side of grief.
The Pure Extract of “Who’s That” by the War on Drugs

“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.
Back to Black (20th Anniversary Edition)

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.
The Party (10th Anniversary Edition)

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.
My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition)

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.
Rubber Soul (Super Deluxe)

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.
Landlocked

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.
Eternal (Live)

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.