The employees of Pitchfork listens to plenty of new music. Plenty of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors undergo an imposing variety of new releases, giving suggestions to one another and discovering new favorites alongside the way in which. Every Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are enjoying obsessively and highlighting among the Pitchfork employees’s favourite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its solely guideline is that these are the songs you’d gladly ship to a good friend.
This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist options Mitski, Shabaka, and extra. Pay attention beneath and observe our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a fee from purchases made via affiliate hyperlinks on our website.)
Pitchfork Selects: January 20, 2026
Mitski: “The place’s My Cellphone?”
Shabaka: “A Future Untold”
Maxo Kream: “Pretend Jeezy” [ft. Denzel Curry and JPEGMAFIA]
Al Inexperienced: “To Love Any individual”
Organ Tapes: “Gun to the World”
Makthaverskan: “Louie”
Kim Gordon: “Not Right this moment”
GENA: “Lead it Up”
Charlotte Day Wilson: “Lean” [ft. Saya Gray]
Courtney Marie Andrews: “Everybody Desires to Really feel Like You Do”
Ralphie Choo: “Rocco”
Robber Robber: “The Sound It Made”
