Crumbler

Selected lines from Pitchfork’s guide to their favorite albums of the year.

• At first, you feel kind of embarrassed for Trevor Powers.
• It’s not hard to see why detractors might have underestimated Cults.
• Volume has long been Ty Segall’s thing, but craftsmanship? Eh, not so much.
• In the last two years, detractors have been all over Liturgy founder and frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.
• As an album, it doesn’t really do anything new, and a few of the signifiers that Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma plunder on Sepalcure were, to some, reaching their expiration dates.
• Space Is Only Noise isn’t dance music. What it is, I’m not sure.
• At a time when economic disparity seems to bisect every cultural and political paradigm, the least sensitive thing you could possibly do … would be to release a record that often reads like a Kardashian sister’s letter to Santa.
• Bradford Cox is hardly the first artist to maintain a primary band and solo career concurrently.
• For such a skilled and prolific artist, Kurt Vile sings an awful lot about being lazy.
• Every generation gets the MF Doom it deserves.