Best New Music
Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.
Best New Albums
Los Thuthanaka
Los Thuthanaka
In siblings Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s dense, elaborate thicket of sound, traditional genres and ancestral wisdom coexist with digital ephemera and rapturous noise.
By Joshua Minsoo Kim
Music Can Hear Us
DJ Koze
Playfully swerving through house, Afrobeats, and wistful German-language pop, Stefan Kozalla’s latest album makes good on his inextinguishable supply of curiosity and childlike wonder.
By Walden Green
hexed!
aya
Sound bristles, foams, bursts, and oozes as the UK artist’s daring second album confronts the terrifying crush of reality. It feels like witchcraft; maybe it is.
By Sasha Geffen
Gift Songs
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
The ambient experimental musician’s latest record is cohesive, fluid, and egoless. Using an almost entirely acoustic palette, he and his collaborators channel an abiding sense of mystery.
By Philip Sherburne
From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID
Saba / No ID
Rapper Saba and producer No ID collaborate for a master class in melodic rap that harnesses ’90s sampledelia, ’00s neo-soul, and the singsong lyricism of 2010s Chicago.
By Stephen Kearse
Best New Tracks
“Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)”
This Is Lorelei / MJ Lenderman
The cover comes from a new deluxe version of Nate Amos’ 2024 album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star.
By Quinn Moreland
“This Is Real”
Feeble Little Horse
The Pittsburgh band’s first new song in two years puts a hyper-caffeinated, high-contrast spin on “pop-rock.”
By Holden Seidlitz
“Special Request to All Nice and Decent Real Niggaz (Stop Hatin)”
509 BMG
The Orlando rapper’s new track is a reggae jam and a diss marathon.
By Alphonse Pierre
“To Be a Rose”
Jenny Hval
Nothing is simply what it is on the Norwegian songwriter’s vivid and tender excavation of a scent memory.
By Harry Tafoya
“Cinderella”
Model/Actriz
The live-wire song is the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, Pirouette.
By Anna Gaca
“Easter Pink”
fakemink
Bloghouse meets cloud rap on the UK artist’s 87-second sugar rush of recent nostalgia.
By Walden Green
Best New Reissues
Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition)
Unrest
An expanded reissue of the indie-pop icons’ 1993 swan song highlights the contradictions—youthful innocence and teenage lust; scrappy punk and lovelorn ballads—that made the group unique.
By Arielle Gordon
Flora
Hiroshi Yoshimura
Never released until 2006, three years after the ambient composer’s death, this 1987 recording is an outlier in his catalog—less plainly atmospheric, more melodic and mischievous.
By Daniel Bromfield
Ted Lucas (Extended)
Ted Lucas
Half a century after its initial release, a treasure of private-press folk music finally gets an expanded reissue. Its songs remain sweet, sad, and completely enchanting.
By Grayson Haver Currin
A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition)
Wilco
A mammoth 13-piece box set unpacks the origins of Wilco’s wild, ambitious fifth album, including four revelatory LPs of alternates and outtakes.
By Steven Arroyo
West Coast
Studio
The Swedish duo’s 2006 debut still feels both familiar and futuristic, with a breezy blend of dance and indie rock that evokes both windswept landscapes and youthful freedom.
By Matthew Schnipper
Musik (2024 Remastered)
Plastikman
Newly reissued for its 30th anniversary, DJ and producer Richie Hawtin’s 1994 album reconfigured acid house’s familiar contours to new specifications: spare, trippy, and disorientingly slow.
By Philip Sherburne