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 the New York songwriter’s third LP, an album so painterly and poetic that it formed its own self-contained world.

In 1975, the Detroit singer self-released a perfect document of private-press folk. A rich new box set finally reveals more of his story in psychedelic sound.

Drawing heavily from Japanese kankyō ongaku, the Portland ambient duo explores mind-bending sound design and meditative states in a long-form piece at the nexus of the acoustic and the digital.

Aaron Maine’s latest collection is a pared-back, unpolished mixtape, recorded to his trusty four-track. The lack of digital refinement spotlights the songs’ unexpected rhymes and organic melodies.