Author: pitchfork

Boduf Songs used to be the work of one man, a guitar, and acres of chilly blank space. Mat Sweet whispered his vocals and the songs were devotionally paced, but in their unremitting, medieval bleakness, there was a hint of...

It seems unnatural to call a musician an innovator when they haven’t produced any original music of their own. But 27-year old DJ Ben UFO has done plenty for London’s electronic underground just by being a selector....

In a year where rap label brass scrambled to sign buzzy talent, Miami rapper SpaceGhostPurrp ended up in pretty weird place– on powerhouse British indie 4AD, folded up into a roster that included Grimes and Purity Ring. He...

Over the course of three full-length albums, Reading Rainbow has been three distinctly different bands. On 2009’s Mystical Participation, founding members (and spouses) Robbie Garcia and Sarah Everton ran bubblegum...

When Esben and the Witch released their 2011 debut, Violet Cries, it aligned them with then-current goth pop (Zola Jesus, Austra, Chelsea Wolfe), and, as Jayson Greene concluded in his review of the album, “the cumulative...