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 revisit the spare, gentle, semi-forgotten singer-songwriter album that’s fueled 50 years of “sapphic pop.”
The avant-pop group’s long unavailable, newly reissued debut epitomizes its attempt to meld its art-school background, ’70s punk ethics, and obsession with chart pop into one grand statement.
Former Black Midi bassist Cameron Picton’s dazzlingly complicated solo debut is a tangle of baroque melodies, chamber-punk arrangements, and garden-path lyrics.
The siblings extend their distinct, boundaryless sound explorations on a new EP, a companion to recent LPs that commemorates their work to preserve Aymara lore.