Marissa Lorusso

3 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Anna Gaca |Jeremy D. Larson |Marissa Lorusso |Philip Sherburne

Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by rounding up albums that have earned high scores and Best New Music designations with a quick list of RIYLs (that’s Recommended If You Like) and links to our coverage. Unlike our year-end lists, this one is organized in reverse chronological order.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Anna Gaca |Jeremy Larson |Marissa Lorusso |Philip Sherburne

All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year.

4 weeks ago | pitchfork.com | Marissa Lorusso

“Half of my whole life is gone,” Mike Hadreas sighed on the opening of Perfume Genius’ fifth album, the high-water mark Set My Heart on Fire Immediately. Though that may sound like an expression of regret, Hadreas sang it with a kind of guarded optimism—opening a door into a record that gleefully documented life’s contradictions through odes to connections to the self and others. On Glory, Perfume Genius’ latest, Haderas is once again mulling the grand arc of his existence.

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Marissa Lorusso

In 2021, songwriter Jessica Dobson and her band, Deep Sea Diver, gave an arresting performance inside the famous “red room” from Twin Peaks. Or, not exactly; Deep Sea Diver had recreated the room for a quarantine-era home concert series, their attempt to inject a dose of wonder and inspiration into the interminable sameness of lockdown.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Marissa Lorusso

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, dead at 82: 'Words can't do justice'Carl Thomas Dean, husband of country music icon Dolly Parton, has died. He was 82. Parton shared the news on Monday in a statement posted on her official social media channels. "Carl and I spent many wonderful years together," she wrote. "Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 …