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

Singin’ to an Empty Chair
Ratboys
Bringing their country-tinted indie rock to boundless new landscapes, the Chicago band returns with their most emotionally affecting and compositionally advanced songs to date.

URGH
Mandy, Indiana
The noise-rock band’s second album is a breakthrough: insidiously catchy, incomprehensibly groovy, and fueled by righteous fury.



Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack)
Daniel Lopatin
The electronic composer meets the larger-than-life film on its level, building the palette he’s honed over the years into a totalizing prism of sound.

I Tried to Tell You
KP Skywalka
Embellishing DMV drill with retro R&B, Southern-style storytelling, and striking moments of vulnerability, the DC rapper’s album is simultaneously regional and singular.
Best New Tracks


“Dopamine”
Robyn
The Swedish pop singer’s first song in seven years is a big shot of what she does best: pop euphoria and desire on the dancefloor.
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“Nuketown Blues”
Rooster
The sludgy trunk-rattler is the centerpiece of a new solo album from Sad Boys-affiliated producer Gud, aka Rooster.

“Sé Miimii” [ft. DJ Skycee]
Miimii KDS
Miimii KDS is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.


Best New Reissues

Completely Necessary
The Necessaries
Arthur Russell and Ernie Brooks’ late-’70s rock group has been rendered a historical footnote, but a new anthology captures the nervy brilliance of its guitar-driven new wave.
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The Return of the Durutti Column (Expanded & Remastered)
The Durutti Column
Reissued with demos, live performances, and early recordings, the full-length debut by the mercurial Factory project is as beautiful as it is cerebral, a work of radical non-provocation.

Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)
The Replacements
Packaged with live recordings and studio rarities, the Mats’ 1984 masterpiece gets a thoughtful new box set that illustrates the precarity and magic of their unlikely breakthrough.

1985: The Miracle Year
Hüsker Dü
A set of previously unreleased live recordings captures the Minneapolis hardcore trio at peak ferocity. It’s a welcome corrective to the tinny production of their studio albums.

Punjabi Disco
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
Naya Beat reissues the first-ever British Asian electronic dance album—a joyous, loose-limbed romp through Punjabi-tinged disco, funk, psychedelia, and proto-acid house.

Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition
Bruce Springsteen
A new box set, which includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, tells the complete story of one of the most foundational and lonesome records in rock music.