Pitchfork's Scores
- Music
For 11,993 reviews, this publication has graded:
-
41% higher than the average critic
-
6% same as the average critic
-
53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | Sign O' the Times [Deluxe Edition] | |
---|---|---|
Lowest review score: | nyc ghosts & flowers |
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 9,809 out of 11993
-
Mixed: 1,877 out of 11993
-
Negative: 307 out of 11993
11993
music
reviews
- By Date
- By Critic Score
-
- Critic Score
The Rat Road offers no easy answers and—frankly—not all that much easy listening. But if you’re looking for a sometimes baffling yet often entertaining adventure, The Rat Road delivers.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 9, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
With a more cohesive sound, some of the rhythmic quirks and time signature hops from their past output are smoothed out. On occasion, the music is so pristine that it’s easy to miss the evocative lyrics buried in the tightly wound grooves.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 8, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The pair’s songwriting is so inventive and electric that even the depths of the late capitalist abyss begin to offer pathways to freedom.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 8, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
No matter how unambiguous the references, these don’t feel like imitations; they feel like Nathan Fake tracks.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 4, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Museum feels like a transitional statement—a small but powerful reflection on an era when everyone and everything ground to a halt. But at their best, these songs also offer hints of how Ákadóttir might start moving again.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 4, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s a discomfiting listen: In bearing witness to her agony, there’s a kind of transference of pain that occurs in her shredded screams—the sound of an artist stepping into her shadows in order to find her light.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 3, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Pitchfork
- Posted May 2, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Pitchfork
- Posted May 1, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The vibe is luminous pastels, elegant sway, adult-contemporary electro, and an uncombed, unselfconscious attitude that circles right back around to being cool, and Avalon Emerson’s got it.- Pitchfork
- Posted May 1, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Careful listening reveals that the album’s welcoming facade is an invitation into a tantalizingly complex world, like a perfectly manicured hedge maze guiding you through concentric pathways.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Overall, That! Feels Good! stays focused on a mission that never feels like a chore. In its relatively brief 40-minute runtime, Ware takes her task extremely seriously, but she’s unencumbered by its immensity; actually, it seems to unleash her.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The chaos comes on the very next track, “Grease in Your Hair,” one of a couple songs that performs the National’s old sleight of hand: working the anxiety around until they pull an anthem out of thin air. As a way to address one of the primary tensions in their catalog—writing songs about dissatisfaction in spite of great conventional success—it’s a great bit. But as Frankenstein moves from wrestling to reckoning, the swells are tamer.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Abrams’ music moves through time gracefully, adjusting to the demands of when and where it is performed, and who’s involved. The awe that his music channels lies in its grasp of mutability, tracking subtle changes in repeating patterns—whether from moment to moment or year to year.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 26, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Hardcore will never sound or feel as satisfying on record as it does coming from a stage, and experienced from within the pit, enveloped in the release of sweaty rage and other explosive emotional detritus. But the songs have to come from somewhere, and So Unknown, which bottles that rage and passion with a bit of funk, is a decent place to start.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 25, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Full of tactile details and poetic turns of phrase, the songs on Safe to Run have the feel of road-trip musings, as though she were recording stray thoughts from an all-day drive.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 25, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Her lyrics often read like prose on the page, but she finds ways to bend them into melodic shapes it’s difficult to imagine anyone else finding.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Her voice has a warmth and a quaver that can wring pathos from even the most conversational lines, and the production by Brad Cook (Hurray for the Riff Raff, The War on Drugs) furnishes her with warm, lived-in atmospheres. Every track has something to sink into, like the pinging, playful background vocals throughout “Pick,” or the airy, breathy coda of “2+2.”- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Although the tone can get a little one-note, this personal and cultural lineage deepens the poignancy of Fuse, in which Thorn and Watt broadly consider what we lose and hold on to over the course of a lifetime.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
At the very least, it sounds terrific. With imaginative production from Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and accompaniment from a sterling cast of (largely) North Carolina ringers. ... But across the 42 minutes of Henry St., Matsson rarely responds to them in kind. To put it plainly, the writing is just bad, as though it were some slapdash afterthought to the strong instrumentals already in place.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 19, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
With these outtakes, Olsen zooms out and reveals some of the rockier steps along her journey toward self-discovery.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Requiem for Jazz is a complex record, requiring sustained attention and careful thought. Though it lacks the fiery rage and visceral immediacy of 2020’s LIVE, its nuanced critique of jazz’s role in Black history is an important and necessary continuation of the conversation that Bland began over six decades ago.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Mythologies sounds like the work of an artist stepping out of his comfort zone in search of personal creative fulfillment. It might be equally rewarding for the listener if only any of these pieces were as memorable as Daft Punk’s songs.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
For all of her self-flagellation, Teitelbaum is far more potent when she’s pissed off.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Whereas the distorted tones smeared over 2017’s Pleasure could make it seem as if she were squaring off against her guitar and microphone, Multitudes mostly sounds as cozy as a winter sweater that’s three sizes too big.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
72 Seasons, at a marathon 77 minutes long, delivers everything you could possibly want from a Metallica album in 2023, and so much more on top of that. Too much more. Like Hardwired, its predecessor—the same length, incidentally—72 Seasons is both a thrill and a slog.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 13, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Compared to the careful sprawl of triple-LP Sr3mm, which artfully unwound the brothers’ divergent styles and production tastes while avoiding lulls, this outing can feel formulaic and less adventurous at times.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 12, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Perhaps the point is more about feeling good than seeming interesting, and at least the piano equivalent of cowboy chords makes sense in the Americana context. Any given moment sounds wonderful, though not much lingers beyond a deep sense of calm.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 11, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
No Highs ultimately works as an example of what ambient music can be, rather than a suggestion of where it might go.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 11, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Half of rage is confronting the sorrow that births it and watching it metamorphize. Witnessing the chrysalis is With a Hammer’s most generous gift.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The smaller stakes of Stereo Mind Games feel healthier and rewarding; the music is still vulnerable, but anguish no longer consumes every moment.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 10, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
As Hartzman’s lyrics delve deeper into a rich, suburban mundanity, her bandmates respond with their most dramatic and explosive performances.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
A collection of laid-back grooves and sultry meditations on love, loss, and the human experience.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 6, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The full enjoyment of Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities requires some imagination of your own, a sort of listening past the vaporous surface of the music. Like teenage Holden at the radio, you may sense a magical world there, just beyond what you can hear.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 6, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
1982 is their best album since 1986’s Force. ... Attractive in its distillation of received pleasures, 1982 functions as a history lesson about a fecund era, and, boy, they own the warts too.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 5, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Newman’s fastidious, occasionally fussy writing ensures a level of quality control as he tinkers around the margins, even if his bandmates never quite catch the spark.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 5, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
In these early recordings, Elton’s passion and dedication pleads to be heard. Whether nitpicking intros almost to the point of nausea or infusing vitality into each syllable like a mad scientist, a young Elton is constantly straining towards vein-popping perfection.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 4, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Despite some murky production by Josh Kaufman of the Fruit Bats and Bonny Light Horseman, the Hold Steady turn these songs into weird, vivid snapshots.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 3, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Deerhoof are at both their most whimsical and most energetically approachable on Miracle-Level.- Pitchfork
- Posted Apr 3, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Dipping into her lower register, she stuns as a contralto. I found myself rewinding her runs on hymnal parts of “Heart on My Sleeve” and could’ve sworn I was levitating during the awe-inspiring bridge of “Pray It Away” and “Make It Look Easy.” ... The emotionally charged conversational interludes and narrative intros (“Do you ever wonder, like, who else is fucking your man?”) are out of place amid the redundant themes and mind-numbingly online songwriting.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Real intimacy is what you find on The Record, the melding of what’s yours and mine—a favorite Joan Didion quote, songs by Iron & Wine and the Cure, passages from Ecclesiastes—until what’s left is something greater than the sum.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 31, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The songwriting lives up to the production value, pleasant but lacking much purpose.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 29, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
To paraphrase the great Roy Kent, real love should make you feel like you’ve been struck by lightning. 6LACK manages some sparks here and there, but the tingles fade fast.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 29, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Iyer and Ismaily’s hypnotic interplay leaves the listener unmoored in time and space. The grand sweep of Aftab’s voice is a galactic super-wind capable of carrying you off to wondrous new worlds. The force of their collaboration is so much greater than the sum of its simple parts that it borders on the mystical.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The move toward emotional exorcism on The Art of Forgetting is nearly as startling as Rose’s previous stylistic pivots. ... But individual songs, as carefully articulated as they are, tend to get swallowed up by the overarching psychological thrust of The Art of Forgetting: This is a mood piece capturing a specific frame of mind, even a particular era.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Brown meets JPEG’s tempos with alacrity, flashing a singsong flow on “Orange Juice Jones” and mirroring the jittery horn fanfare of “Burfict!” The short bursts don’t provide space for Brown to stretch his limbs, yet he remains a virtuoso in miniature.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Liturgy have always brought a proggy, sprawling ambition to their music, but rarely have all the pieces locked into place so elegantly. 93696 can be pulverizing, but it’s also gentle, and amid the brutality lie some of Hunt-Hendrix’s prettiest and most ornate songs yet.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
He maintains the foggy tufts of reverb and sing-song melodies of his predecessors, but his lyrics trade unrequited crushes for more practical pining.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Chua creates landscapes out of the hollow spaces within her. Each track becomes its own kind of home, or at least a safe harbor.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
They returned with a successor that takes what worked on their previous album and pushes further in every direction. False Lankum sprawls, dense with ideas.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd arrives as a sweeping, confounding work-in-process. It’s full of quiet ruminations and loud interruptions; of visible seams and unhemmed edges.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 24, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Memento Mori is not the hooded masterpiece of Music for the Masses or the hits cache of Violator. But it does signal that there are new ways yet for Gahan and Gore to at least approach their old magic.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Despite their comfortable distance from the industry machine they came up in, Aly & AJ still gravitate toward brightly-colored, big-hearted pop: an old-fashioned stance that dulls the shine of their new direction.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 22, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The final track, “Mukazi,” arrives. It promises the grail, the holy truth behind the fanatical farce, and the reward for this brutal journey into the hellish depths of Mutinta’s psyche. ... It’s left ambiguous whether she can truly bring herself to say these affirmations, whether this is the triumph she has earned. It could be.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The contrast between his sound and substance has never been more striking, either. Backed on these 11 tracks by versatile Toronto band Bahamas, Paisley is cool above the country funk of “Say What You Like” and “Make It a Double,” collected over the spartan “Holy Roller” and “Rewrite History.”- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The struggle of the wealthy and talented white rapper was never especially sympathetic. And on Ben, his trials are mostly internal, the enduring struggle of man to find meaning and leave a legacy. This Macklemore is likely the most honest version we’ve seen to date.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Nothing here is unforgettable or in danger of replacing its original. The arrangements are formulaic, regressing back to the stripped-down candlelit era of the original MTV’s Unplugged. At worst, Songs of Surrender is an overindulgence. At best, it’s a pleasant interlude.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 21, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
What Fantasy is missing isn’t any one synth preset, or a cultural reference for the next season of Stranger Things to popularize. It just lacks urgency.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 20, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Absent the verve and pop of UMO’s previous work, V can feel remote and insular without the charm of being coy. There’s just enough shown here to leave you craving a more direct experience of the world Nielson is spinning.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Purely in sensory terms, it’s difficult to imagine many richer-sounding rock records being released this year. Tumor treats sounds so lovingly they sometimes resemble a director framing and lighting a beloved actor, and every sound on Praise enters the mix with near-visible entrance and exit cues.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
10,000 gecs is something like astral projection, allowing you to ever-so-briefly shake off the constant doom scroll of life for a hot second of unencumbered fun.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 16, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Oh Me Oh My manages to be Holley’s most approachable and most ambitious album all at once.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 15, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Cookup soars when the players’ interpretations converge into new creations, and the source material becomes a portal to a new dimension. The vestiges of old melody may remain, but Gendel’s best reimaginings illuminate subtle resonances and hidden pleasures.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Gumbo, along with his entire body of work, is evidence that there’s still new ground to be tread and fresh sounds to explore within rap itself. The blend of spices might be Nudy’s own, but the flavor of Gumbo is unmistakably hip-hop.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
This is an EP about dragging out the night’s short end, and making well-intentioned plans for life’s daylight hours. It’s party music for people beginning to feel the tug of seeing a full Sunday for the first time in a while.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Not the sundazed party record that was promised but an exploration of how it feels when the party’s over.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Even if you don’t track all the references, Sleaford Mods’ sense of fatigued resignation resonates. UK GRIM is their most varied album to date, but they don’t want to dull the shitstorm’s stench—they’re just here to blow off the steam.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 13, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
“Denver” drags on for six relatively static minutes, while the limp synth pop of “Athens at Night” never quite matches the wooziness of its imagery. Fortunately, Milk for Flowers’ third act is its richest.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 13, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Radical Romantics is essentially a collection of notes on love. Love—whether sexy, overwhelming, or vengeful—links together the recurring motivations of the Fever Ray catalog: curiosity and exploration, family born and chosen, sexual freedom and pleasure.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Soul’d Out is the real deal: a portrait of a pop label at its imperial peak, presenting its unmediated vision of Blackness for a rapt audience.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 8, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Despite its long, solitary genesis, I Play My Bass Loud is anything but a lonely bedroom-pop album.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 8, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Ugly sounds like something far less interesting: the sort of generically angsty guitar music that only a ’90s major label executive could love.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 8, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The Songs of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach sounds like a heartfelt eulogy to an artist who helped pop fans find great beauty and even greater solace in all those lonely, uncertain moments.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 6, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
You couldn’t say that WOW is about anything. Instead, it’s defined by its aesthetic cohesion, a beautiful sense of formal seriousness that holds court over the record’s surrealistic menagerie.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 6, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Thirty-six songs is too many. ... He seems to have lost a great deal of energy as a singer and performer, leading to a ton of uninspired retreads and some truly generic filler.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 6, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Red Moon in Venus luxuriates in the most sublime sounds of Uchis’ career. It’s a fantastical record, illustrating lush, lovesick vignettes and high-femme escapism without relinquishing control.- Pitchfork
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The dramatic crescendos and ostensibly cathartic payoffs of “Little Things” and “The Heart of It All” suggest profundity but mostly draw attention to its absence. Strip away the bombast and these are humble little songs. Humble treatment might suit them.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Though 7s is a step down in scale and inspiration from Cows on Hourglass Pond, the triumph of Time Skiffs means it’s hardly a worrying sign for his career.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Good Riddance is, in a word, nice. But there are plenty of other diaristic artists, ones whose music displays a certain sense of individuality.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 28, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s also a disco-funk explosion, ecstatic from every direction. Even when the satire wanes, the potency of the music remains. Like the rest of the album, Remy shakes free her sorrows and stretches loose her limbs, sanguine as she moves across the dancefloor.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Usually, it’s easier to fit the pieces together if you’re familiar with the political references, or if you’ve already been living under colonialism’s yolk. But Shook feels more urgent, more arresting, with performances that draw you into their world.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Don’t Get Too Close, the more adventurous but marginally less successful of the two, scores the interior world of our hero’s adventure in a very-now merger of emo, rap, J-pop, memecore, video game music, and angsty boy-girl duets.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 27, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
They’re always the butt of their own jokes, which makes them good company for a late night but also makes these songs hit a little harder the next morning.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The songwriting is the group’s sharpest to date. They can still whip up the staccato panic-attack special (see: “Alibis”), but that’s no longer the main attraction, nor the most compelling material.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
This sense of tragedy seeps through nearly every song. It’s what unites the vast material and makes Workin’ on a World feel pivotal in her catalog. These high points also help recontextualize DeMent’s continuing evolution as an observer of American life.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Screaming Females’ entire existence has been a rare testament to consistency and, despite being five years in the making and inspired by a devastating breakup, Desire Pathway can’t help but be their most consistent album yet.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
It’s a dream-pop distillation of the classic Khotin sound—and a suggestion that this master of atmosphere might have a future in actual songs.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
[Tormenta's] eccentric angles and willingness to take risks show up the slightly humdrum nature of much of Cracker Island, an album that walks a very thin line between playing to the band’s strengths and relying too heavily on old tricks.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 23, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Everything rolls along like it’s actually going somewhere—not a flatulent dubstep waddle, but an aerodynamic gallop that brings to mind a deeper lineage of loud and obnoxious dance music, from the technical end of drum’n’bass to “proper” dubstep, Northern bassline, and Chicago juke.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 22, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
You have to bristle and tug at it to get past the barbed wire around these recordings, but once you do, you’re immersed in a surprisingly detailed and evocative world, just beyond the limits of rock.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
These are love songs to a community and a lineage that taught Paul how to survive.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Continuing the trend of 2018’s King of Cowards and 2020’s Viscerals, Land of Sleeper feels a shade crisper than what came before. Whereas they once prioritised the churn and burn, now their songs are leaner and tighter.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 16, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
If you come to Girl in the Half Pearl looking to find a soothing voice in the wilderness, you will instead find a complex maze of battered beats and warped shouts. The gripping soundscape doesn’t allow you to watch its protagonist’s transformation from the safety of the back row—it shoves you through the screen.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
His eighth album, Norm, is his most meticulous and beguiling, straying from his semi-autobiographical past work to span three perspectives and tactfully downplaying its philosophical quandaries with his lushest arrangements to date.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Breaking the Balls of History has a blurry quality: a jumble of all-too-familiar thoughts that never add up to a breakthrough.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
The album’s production veers from trip-hop to new wave, trance to flamenco, demonstrating an innate understanding of the pop archive in pursuit of a new personal style. Each creation seems marvelously its own.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 14, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
Against the stately hush of Moore’s voice, Riley’s bass thunks satisfyingly, and their songs groove harder than ever. Warbled and muffled pianos contrast with acoustic guitars, and a few zany synth choices set Moore up to knock out some vocal delights.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 13, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
elela’s music is hydration for the soul, seductive and relatable even as she continues to refine and evolve her sound. You can be drawn in by Raven’s all-encompassing atmosphere, but it’s even better to lose your whole self in it.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 13, 2023
- Read full review
-
- Critic Score
While the jagged edges of “This Is Why” establish a jittery energy to match Williams’ punctuated belting on the chorus, songs like “C’est Comme Ça” draw too closely from their inspirations. ... Once they shake off their millennial discontents, Paramore find their groove in the record’s second half.- Pitchfork
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
- Read full review