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 revisit a 1983 masterpiece whose sumptuous sonics and ...

Simon Raymonde had for years refused to write a memoir about his life in Cocteau Twins, the dreamy British post-punk group he’d been in with Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie from 1983 to 1997. “I’m ...

There are sometimes albums so magical, so transformative that when it comes time to write about them, as a music critic, I find it challenging to describe how immense it is. You don’t want to give ...