Gia Margaret’s 2023 album, Romantic Piano, opens with “Hinoki Wood,” a serene stroke of repetition and layering. A single note hums in the background, as Margaret’s piano chords form a ...
When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...
It used to be the norm for songs to take two or three months from the time they debuted to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, but in the 2020s that has been the exception. Still ...