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Best New Music

Launched in 2003, Best New Music is Pitchfork’s way of highlighting the finest music of the current moment.

Stochastic Drift

Barker

“Henry, come on”

Lana Del Rey

The Sacrificial Code

Kali Malone

Best New Albums

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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.

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.

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.

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.

45 Pounds

YHWH Nailgun
On their outstanding debut, the New York-based experimental rockers show up fully formed with vision, presence, and possibility.

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.

Best New Tracks

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“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.

“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.”

“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.

“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.

“Cinderella”

Model/Actriz
The live-wire song is the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, Pirouette.

“Easter Pink”

fakemink
Bloghouse meets cloud rap on the UK artist’s 87-second sugar rush of recent nostalgia.

Best New Reissues

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.