Pitchfork
First Floor
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 1998 debut album from a Chicago-born DJ-producer who heard in house music the spirit of rebellion.
I Built You a Tower
Ben Gibbard and co. sound newly emboldened on their first record in four years, with musicianship that evokes the band’s golden era and a newly mature, self-aware perspective on hardships and grief.
An Eraser and a Maze
On their first independent album in nearly 30 years, the Pacific Northwest legends ponder endurance and mortality as they abandon the polish of recent releases for a looser, no-filter approach.
Somewhere Good
The Bristol band’s latest is inventive and restrained, blending influences from trip-hop, folk, and pop for a subtle, uncanny sound that’s all their own.
The Needledrop
Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
Iceage's best album since Plowing into the Field of Love.
Bladee - Sulfur Surfer
Bladee goes out on a lot of limbs on 'Sulfur Surfer;' your mileage may vary with how often it pans out.
