Tue, 4 Nov 2025
Lights descend and the city pulse quickens as Pitchfork Music Festival London returns, threading its frequency through multiple venues across the United Kingdom. On November 4, 2025, boundaries collapse and sound reverberates—bringing together a vanguard assembly of electronic innovators and shape-shifting visionaries. Nicolas Jaar’s immersive constructions headline a program that’s as expansive as it is intimate, with Beatrice Dillon’s fractured house, Marie Davidson’s diaristic techno, and the deep-focus synth voyages of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Kali Malone setting new contours for experimental rhythm.
Cult heroes and unapologetic outliers—Destroyer, Laurie Anderson, Loukeman—share space with club futurists like Jespfur and Sideshow, blurring the lines between stage and dancefloor. Nala Sinephro conjures cosmic jazz; Erika de Casier’s R&B vapor trails dissolve into Nick León’s bass mutations. Lonnie Holley and Oklou infuse the bill with radical tenderness, while Malibu stretches ambient textures over dusk-lit sets.
It’s a convergence of cross-genre explorers—each set mapped across London’s labyrinth, each venue a portal for communal release and collective dreaming. Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025—a constellation of moments where the night is liquid, the boundaries mutable, and electronic music’s radical spirit finds new voice.