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Nick León Made His Name Inside MOTOMAMI. A Tropical Entropy Is His Recalibration.
Nick León's production credit on Rosalía's MOTOMAMI appeared in 2022 without ceremony, buried in the liner notes of an album that would...
Waxahatchee's Tigers Blood Arrived at the End of a Decade of Work. It Earned It.
Tigers Blood, Waxahatchee's sixth album, was written during a concentrated spell while Katie Crutchfield was on tour in late 2022. She...
Mk Ultra's Dream Was Already Over When Pitchfork Got There
Tiny Telephone opened in San Francisco in the summer of 1997. Mk Ultra still had two years left as a functioning band. John Vanderslice,...
Nick León Turned Joan Didion’s Miami Into the Year’s Best Club Album
In 2024, "Bikini" by Nick León and Erika de Casier appeared on year end lists at Pitchfork, The Guardian, Resident Advisor, and Crack...
Lana Del Rey Made Stove Twice. The Second Version Is the Right One.
On February 17, 2026, Lana Del Rey released "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter," a song she told her Instagram followers was her favorite...
Nobody Told Anyone About Nephillm's NY2MIA. Millions Played It Anyway.
ny2mia came out on April 11, 2026. It runs one minute and fifty-seven seconds. By June 1 it had crossed 1.5 million streams on Spotify and...
Arooj Aftab Built Night Reign Around Musicians She Already Trusted
Night Reign, Arooj Aftab's fourth studio album, was released May 31, 2024, on Verve Records. Nine tracks. The record blends Pakistani folk...
Bar Italia's Some Like It Hot Runs on Controlled Discomfort
Some Like It Hot arrived October 17, 2025, through Matador Records. Twelve tracks. Bar italia has been releasing records since 2022, and...
Mdou Moctar's Tears of Injustice Strips the Outrage Down to Grief
Tears of Injustice was released February 28, 2025, on Matador Records. Eight tracks. It is a complete re-recording and rearrangement of...
Nightly's 1989 Builds to a Bridge That Earns Every Second of It
Track 6 on a nine-song album that runs 25 minutes. That is where "1989" lives. Nightly released THE VOID on October 31, 2025, and the album...
Tamino Wrote Every Dawn's a Mountain From the Inside of Dislocation
Every Dawn's a Mountain, Tamino's third studio album, was released March 21, 2025, on Virgin Music UK, through Djinn Records and Communion...
Ethel Cain Builds the Prequel She Always Said Was There
"Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You" is set in 1986. Hayden Anhedönia made that decision early and it shapes everything on the...