List of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album
This is a list of albums awarded Pitchfork Best New Album.[1] This designation is made by editors of the music website for recordings they feel "transcend their scene and genre". This usually, but not always, corresponds to a score above 8.2–8.4 on the site's rating system.[2]
Bold indicates that the album got a 9.0+ score.
2003
- Ms. John Soda – No P. or D.[lower-alpha 1]
- Out Hud – S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
- The Angels of Light – Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
- The Microphones – Mount Eerie
- Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
- The Soft Pink Truth – Do You Party?
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak
- Giddy Motors – Make It Pop
- Supersilent – 6
- Cat Power – You Are Free
- Majesticons – Beauty Party
- Xiu Xiu – A Promise
- Lightning Bolt – Wonderful Rainbow
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Englabörn
- Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co.
- The Blood Brothers – ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
- The Decemberists – Castaways and Cutouts
- Deerhoof – Apple O
- Manitoba – Up in Flames
- The Exploding Hearts – Guitar Romantic
- Sunburned Hand of the Man – Headdress
- Panthers – Let's Get Serious EP
- Four Tet – Rounds
- Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher
- M83 – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
- Fog – Ether Teeth
- Singel Frame – Wetheads Come Running
- !!! – Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) EP
- Grandaddy – Sumday
- Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
- Clearlake – Cedars
- WHY? – Oaklandazulasylum
- Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner
- Sufjan Stevens – Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
- TV on the Radio – Young Liars EP
- Constantines – Shine a Light
- Polysics – Neu
- The Decemberists – Her Majesty The Decemberists
- The Rapture – Echoes
- Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
- My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
- The Deadly Snakes – Ode to Joy
- Need New Body – UFO
- The Wrens – The Meadowlands
- Cyann & Ben – Spring
- The Books – The Lemon of Pink
- Non-Prophets – Hope
- The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
- Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
- Menomena – I Am the Fun Blame Monster
- Ellen Allien – Berlinette
- The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
- Jay-Z – The Black Album
- MU – Afro Finger and Gel
2004
- Philip Jeck – 7
- Air – Talkie Walkie
- The Walkmen – Bows + Arrows
- Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
- Kanye West – The College Dropout
- Cee-Lo Green – Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
- Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
- Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
- Devendra Banhart – Rejoicing in the Hands
- Madvillain – Madvillainy
- Iron & Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
- William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops I–IV
- Jason Forrest – The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
- Les Savy Fav – Inches
- Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
- Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
- Mission of Burma – ONoffON
- Erlend Øye – DJ-Kicks: Erlend Øye
- Mirah – C'mon Miracle
- The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
- Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
- Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
- A.C. Newman – The Slow Wonder
- Junior Boys – Last Exit
- The Plastic Constellations – Mazatlan
- Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
- The Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
- Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral
- The Futureheads – The Futureheads
- Björk – Medúlla
- Castanets – Cathedral
- Arcade Fire – Funeral
- The Foreign Exchange – Connected
- Dungen – Ta det lugnt
- Interpol – Antics
- Brian Wilson – Smile
- Panda Bear – Young Prayer
- The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
- Death From Above 1979 – You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
- Various Artists – DFA Compilation #2
- Annie – Anniemal
- Diplo & M.I.A. – Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1
- Jóhann Jóhannsson – Virðulegu forsetar
- Excepter – KA
2005
- The Fiery Furnaces – EP
- Black Mountain – Black Mountain
- M83 – Before the Dawn Heals Us
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
- LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
- Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower
- Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
- Various Artists – Run the Road
- Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
- Shining – In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster
- M.I.A. – Arular
- The Decemberists – Picaresque
- Edan – Beauty and the Beat
- Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness
- The Boy Least Likely To – The Best Party Ever
- Vitalic – OK Cowboy
- Architecture in Helsinki – In Case We Die
- The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Face the Truth
- Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
- Common – Be
- Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & Roll
- Isolée – We Are Monster
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Wilderness – Wilderness
- Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
- The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
- Kanye West – Late Registration
- Serena-Maneesh – Serena Maneesh
- Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow
- Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
- Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
- Deerhoof – The Runners Four
- The Clientele – Strange Geometry
- Animal Collective – Feels
- Vashti Bunyan – Lookaftering
- Jens Lekman – Oh You're So Silent Jens
- Love Is All – Nine Times That Same Song
- Sunn O))) – Black One
2006
- Boris – Pink
- Belle And Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
- The Knife – Silent Shout
- Destroyer – Destroyer's Rubies
- Liars – Drum's Not Dead
- Tapes 'n Tapes – The Loon
- Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
- Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
- Islands – Return to the Sea
- Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming
- Scott Walker – The Drift
- Danielson Famile – Ships
- Matthew Herbert – Scale
- TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
- Girl Talk – Night Ripper
- The Pipettes – We Are the Pipettes
- I'm From Barcelona – Let Me Introduce My Friends
- Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye
- The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine
- Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
- Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
- Fujiya & Miyagi – Transparent Things
- Mastodon – Blood Mountain
- The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
- The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
- Califone – Roots and Crowns
- Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet
- Peter Bjorn and John – Writer's Block
- Lindstrøm – It's a Feedelity Affair
- Joanna Newsom – Ys
- Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
2007
- Sally Shapiro – Disco Romance
- Menomena – Friend and Foe
- Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
- Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
- Deerhunter – Cryptograms
- Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
- Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
- LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
- Panda Bear – Person Pitch
- The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
- The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
- Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey EP
- Prodigy and The Alchemist – Return of the Mac
- Joanna Newsom – Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP
- Feist – The Reminder
- The Clientele – God Save The Clientele
- Dan Deacon – Spiderman of the Rings
- Battles – Mirrored
- The National – Boxer
- Justice – †
- Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
- Various Artists – After Dark
- Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- Okkervil River – The Stage Names
- M.I.A. – Kala
- Caribou – Andorra
- Liars – Liars
- A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers
- Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
- Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil
- Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
- Kanye West – Graduation
- Les Savy Fav – Let's Stay Friends
- Iron & Wine – The Shepherd's Dog
- Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
- Black Kids – Wizard of Ahhhs EP
- Chromatics – Night Drive
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
- Grizzly Bear – Friend EP
- Jay-Z – American Gangster
- Burial – Untrue
- Daft Punk – Alive 2007
2008
- Times New Viking – Rip It Off
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
- High Places – 03/07–09/07
- Atlas Sound – Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
- El Guincho – Alegranza!
- Beach House – Devotion
- Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant
- The Ruby Suns – Sea Lion
- Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
- Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
- The Dodos – Visiter
- Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
- M83 – Saturdays=Youth
- Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
- Portishead – Third
- No Age – Nouns
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy – Lie Down in the Light
- Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
- Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
- Crystal Antlers – EP
- Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
- Air France – No Way Down EP
- Harvey Milk – Life… The Best Game In Town
- The Bug – London Zoo
- The Walkmen – You & Me
- Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too
- Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science
- Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
- Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
- Marnie Stern – This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
- Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire – Lost Wisdom
- Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
- DJ /rupture – Uproot
- Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
- The Very Best – Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best
2009
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Antony and the Johnsons – The Crying Light
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Various Artists – Dark Was the Night
- Wavves – Wavvves
- Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
- Dan Deacon – Bromst
- Fever Ray – Fever Ray
- Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
- Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
- Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
- Woods – Songs of Shame
- Japandroids – Post-Nothing
- St. Vincent – Actor
- Isis – Wavering Radiant
- Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
- Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
- Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
- Mos Def – The Ecstatic
- Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
- Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
- Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
- Cass McCombs – Catacombs
- jj – jj n° 2
- Delorean – Ayrton Senna EP
- The Antlers – Hospice
- YACHT – See Mystery Lights
- The xx – xx
- Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
- Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
- Volcano Choir – Unmap
- Girls – Album
- Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
- The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
- The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
- Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms
- The Mountain Goats – The Life of the World to Come
- Atlas Sound – Logos
- Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
- Various Artists – 5: Five Years of Hyperdub
- Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
- Real Estate – Real Estate
- Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind
2010
- Vampire Weekend – Contra
- Owen Pallett – Heartland
- Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
- Four Tet – There Is Love in You
- Beach House – Teen Dream
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
- Hot Chip – One Life Stand
- Gil Scott-Heron – I'm New Here
- Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
- Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
- Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
- Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer
- Liars – Sisterworld
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
- Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
- Fang Island – Fang Island
- The Morning Benders – Big Echo
- The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
- Caribou – Swim
- Delorean – Subiza
- The Radio Dept. – Clinging to a Scheme
- Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
- Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
- Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
- The National – High Violet
- Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts
- Sleigh Bells – Treats
- LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
- Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
- James Blake – CMYK
- Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
- Robyn – Body Talk Pt. 1
- Wild Nothing – Gemini
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
- Emeralds – Does It Look Like I'm Here?
- Julian Lynch – Mare
- ceo – White Magic
- Wavves – King of the Beach
- Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
- The-Dream – Love King
- Best Coast – Crazy For You
- Curren$y – Pilot Talk
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- Matthew Dear – Black City
- The Walkmen – Lisbon
- Das Racist – Sit Down, Man
- How to Dress Well – Love Remains
- Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
- No Age – Everything in Between
- Twin Shadow – Forget
- Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
- Girls – Broken Dreams Club EP
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Robyn – Body Talk
- Off! – First Four EPs
2011
- Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
- Destroyer – Kaputt
- Cut Copy – Zonoscope
- James Blake – James Blake
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
- Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
- Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
- Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
- Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pine
- Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
- Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
- The Weeknd – House of Balloons
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Belong
- Panda Bear – Tomboy
- Tune-Yards – Whokill
- Big K.R.I.T. – Return of 4Eva
- Cass McCombs – Wit's End
- DJ Quik – The Book of David
- Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
- Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
- EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
- The Antlers – Burst Apart
- Cults – Cults
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
- WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
- Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
- Iceage – New Brigade
- AraabMuzik – Electronic Dream
- John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
- Washed Out – Within and Without
- Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch the Throne
- The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
- The Field – Looping State of Mind
- Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
- St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
- Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
- Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation
- Trash Talk – Awake EP
- M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
- Real Estate – Days
- Atlas Sound – Parallax
- ASAP Rocky – Live. Love. ASAP
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
- Drake – Take Care
- Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
- Sepalcure – Sepalcure
2012
- Cloud Nothings – Attack On Memory
- Schoolboy Q – Habits & Contradictions
- John Talabot – ƒIN
- Burial – Kindred EP
- Grimes – Visions
- Frankie Rose – Interstellar
- Lambchop – Mr. M
- Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
- Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
- Julia Holter – Ekstasis
- The Men – Open Your Heart
- The Shins – Port of Morrow
- Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance
- Chromatics – Kill For Love
- Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
- Death Grips – The Money Store
- Actress – R.I.P.
- Beach House – Bloom
- Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
- El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
- Mount Eerie – Clear Moon
- Japandroids – Celebration Rock
- Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
- Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
- DIIV – Oshin
- Twin Shadow – Confess
- Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
- Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
- Baroness – Yellow & Green
- Nas – Life Is Good
- Passion Pit – Gossamer
- Purity Ring – Shrines
- TNGHT – TNGHT
- Jessie Ware – Devotion
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
- Swans – The Seer
- Wild Nothing – Nocturne
- Grizzly Bear – Shields
- How to Dress Well – Total Loss
- Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze
- Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
- Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
- Tame Impala – Lonerism
- Metz – Metz
- Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
- Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
- Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
- Mac DeMarco – 2
2013
- ASAP Rocky – Long. Live. ASAP
- Burial – Truant / Rough Sleeper
- Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
- Grouper – The Man Who Died In His Boat
- My Bloody Valentine – m b v
- Iceage – You're Nothing
- Autre Ne Veut – Anxiety
- Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse
- Rhye – Woman
- Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt
- Phosphorescent – Muchacho
- Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
- DJ Koze – Amygdala
- The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
- Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze
- The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
- Charli XCX – True Romance
- Mikal Cronin – MCII
- Deerhunter – Monomania
- Savages – Silence Yourself
- Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap
- Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
- Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
- The National – Trouble Will Find Me
- Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil
- Baths – Obsidian
- Various Artists – After Dark 2
- Disclosure – Settle
- Jon Hopkins – Immunity
- Boards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest
- Deafheaven – Sunbather
- These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
- Kanye West – Yeezus
- Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels
- Speedy Ortiz – Major Arcana
- Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
- Julia Holter – Loud City Song
- Earl Sweatshirt – Doris
- Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe
- Forest Swords – Engravings
- Janelle Monáe – The Electric Lady
- Bill Callahan – Dream River
- Drake – Nothing Was the Same
- Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
- Haim – Days Are Gone
- The Field – Cupid's Head
- Danny Brown – Old
- Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
- Darkside – Psychic
- Tim Hecker – Virgins
- Kelela – Cut 4 Me
- DJ Rashad – Double Cup
- Mutual Benefit – Love's Crushing Diamond
- Arcade Fire – Reflektor
- The Range – Nonfiction
- Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
- Death Grips – Government Plates
- Burial – Rival Dealer[1]
2014
- Beyoncé – Beyoncé
- Sun Kil Moon – Benji
- Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
- St. Vincent – St. Vincent
- Real Estate – Atlas
- Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love
- The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
- Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
- Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
- Todd Terje – It's Album Time
- Ought – More Than Any Other Day
- Lykke Li – I Never Learn
- Swans – To Be Kind
- Various Artists – Hyperdub 10.1[1]
- Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell
- Ben Frost – A U R O R A
- Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
- White Lung – Deep Fantasy
- How to Dress Well – "What Is This Heart?"
- A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Sea When Absent
- Brian Eno / Karl Hyde – High Life
- Spoon – They Want My Soul
- FKA Twigs – LP1
- Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
- Aphex Twin – Syro
- Perfume Genius – Too Bright
- Flying Lotus – You're Dead!
- Caribou – Our Love
- Iceage – Plowing Into the Field of Love
- Ex Hex – Rips
- Vince Staples – Hell Can Wait
- Pharmakon – Bestial Burden
- Grouper – Ruins
- Run the Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
- Arca – Xen
- Clark – Clark
- Ariel Pink – pom pom
- Andy Stott – Faith in Strangers
- D'Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
2015
- Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
- Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
- Viet Cong – Viet Cong
- Björk – Vulnicura
- Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass
- Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2
- Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
- Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
- Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent
- Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
- Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
- Jlin - Dark Energy
- Lower Dens - Escape from Evil
- Young Thug - Barter 6
Notes
- ↑ no longer present on site, but was 1st P4K BNM
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pitchfork Media list of best albums Retrieved 22 July 2013.
- ↑ Conklin, Mike. "Pitchfork's "Best New Music" Finally Explained! Only, Wait a Minute... Not Really!". The Measure (blog). The L Magazine. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
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