Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at Hole’s third album, Hollywood in the late 1990s, and the redemption of Courtney Love.
A new reissue honors the influential vaporwave project’s crowning achievement: a groovy, sample-laden ode to excess that briefly epitomized the genre’s future funk offshoot.
The pop star’s third album is a heartbreaking account of an intense romance and its demise. Its mood is perfectly reflected in the music, and her evolution as a songwriter is a sight to behold.
Brazilian funk, techno, trance, Miami bass, dubstep, and even tech-house all find a place on Sonny Moore’s latest, a stylistic and collaborative free-for-all that rarely settles in one place for long.