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Full Moon
Brandy
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 Brandy’s futuristic, full-hearted 2002 record, an album so lush and expertly crafted that it became the new blueprint for the pop-R&B sound.
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Sexistential
Robyn
Robyn sounds right at home on a kooky new album that refines the luminous synth palpitations of Body Talk to explore sexuality, sentimentality, and the creation of life.
Creature of Habit
Courtney Barnett
With a guest appearance from Waxahatchee and production from John Congleton, the latest from the Australian singer-songwriter gently furthers her career-long search for inner peace.
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Rocketship
The American band’s 1996 debut spun indie pop gold from heartache and secondhand Hammond organ. A new 30th-anniversary reissue can hardly do much to improve it.
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Tranquilizer
Oneohtrix Point NeverBest New AlbumDrawing on a cache of commercial sample CDs, Daniel Lopatin assembles an impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration.
West End Girl
Lily AllenWith an album that doubles as an insider’s account of a tabloid divorce, the singer finds a new evolution of her signature style: Lightness isn’t a foil for irony, but a vehicle for hurt.
Repulsor
ShlohmoThe L.A. beatmaker turns aggressive on his fourth album—dialing up the distortion, flooding his beats with overdriven synths, and pushing anxious moods into the red.
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Straight From the Heart
Patrice RushenEach 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 1982 breakthrough from a California pianist and songwriter whose effortless fusion of R&B, disco, and jazz defied any attempts to pin her down.
I Could Live in Hope
LowEach 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 revisit the epiphanic debut album from the Duluth slowcore band whose fragile, insistent sound was entirely its own from the beginning.
Dare Iz a Darkside
RedmanEach 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 revisit the New Jersey rap icon’s paranoid, insular, largely self-produced 1994 album, an East Coast G-funk classic under the influence.
Justified
Justin TimberlakeEach 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 revisit a 2002 debut that launched a whole cultural phenomenon by borrowing the hottest R&B moves of the day to mint a shiny new pop star.
Cupid & Psyche 85
Scritti PolittiEach 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 revisit the ultra slick, deliciously clever record where the UK band deconstructed pop music only to build it back up even better.
Behind the Magnolia Curtain
Tav Falco’s Panther BurnsEach 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 revisit a cult 1981 garage rock record steeped in Memphis lore. With Alex Chilton as his sideman, the provocative Tav Falco brought blues and rockabilly screaming into the post-punk era.
A Walk Across the Rooftops
The Blue NileEach 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 revisit the 1984 debut from the Scottish trio who built towers of emotion from moody, minimalist parts.
