Pitchfork Music Festival London returns for its fifth edition from 4–8 November 2025. This year includes a Young Label Showcase with Two Shell and Mechatok at HERE at Outernet, plus the new Pitchfork London Selects — a four-day takeover at 93 Feet East spotlighting artists you’ll find across Pitchfork’s weekly new music playlist.
A mainstay in London’s cultural calendar, Pitchfork London continues to light up the city with diverse and original programming. The week builds from specially curated weekday events to a full Saturday takeover at the Roundhouse and the renowned Dalston Takeover, spread across five of East London’s most-loved venues.
Check out our playlist of all UK residents booked for this year’s events as well as our hot 7 ones to watch below.
holybones snuck up on us, sudden, incognito, and supreme. Single-tone narration, babied in the arms birthed by The Streets then revolutionised in the AI-voiced side project of electro artist Vegyn’s Headache (2023), has been crossed out and rewritten once again: less existentialism, more human touch, glossed in palpable synth-funk, but keep the ecstasy to the gram.
Cinematic and textural in soundscape, holybones shine through instrumentals so blended they’re deceptively simple. It’s our Human Traffic — the one where Danny Dyer has a beer belly and we fear climate collapse: “Ah, forget it.”
Anonymous for now, the London-based group may one day unwrap the mask as the culture cults follow. For now, we remain ravelled in the mystery.
For fans of: Headache, Real Lies
Friday 7 November – Roundhouse (Studio Theatre) – with Nick León & Loukeman – tickets to this event has now sold out, sign up to join waiting list
Meteor and NTS Artist Development Programme graduate Lauren Duffus is still smoking from impact since her self-produced EP Can’s Gone Warm (June 2025). The six-track project floats borderless — dark synth and trip-dancehall stitched together with Duffus’ alien, or maybe angel, breath. So silky it’s razor sharp.
Adored off the back of this release, the North London talent caught the eye of Miu Miu, performing at Milan Design Week 2025, while also landing coverage from Pitchfork, Crack, and Metal Magazine.
For fans of: Malibu, System Olympia
Saturday 8 November – Roundhouse (Studio Theatre) – with Beatrice Dillon & Elaine Howley
Deathcrash bleeds through the feeling of “You Went Away”, room-corner, isolated slowcore. Having toured with Codeine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and fellow South-Londoners Black Country, New Road, the four-piece stand firmly in the alt/post-rock continuum.
Playing with a dazzle of melancholy numbness, surprising cloud-cracks of hope-core shine through amid the bleak drones — 2022’s What To Do, for example.
“I was terrified to tour again but it’s going great. The band I have are fantastic, and the drummer is my best friend for like 20 years or more. Um, all the shows have been selling out and… it’s fantastic.”
Encapsulated in live performance, the band’s most recent manifestation came in the form of their 2023 extended album Less+, which garnered a respectable 7.1 from Pitchfork. With a slot on the 2025 lineup, the horizons of deathcrash, at least from the commentator’s view, are blue.
For fans of: Duster
Wednesday 5 November – KOKO – with Divide and Dissolve
Lofi, sub-dust crackles spin through 2024’s folder 3, the third instalment from Peckham dashboard rapper Jadasea. He’s earned recognition for his paper-mâché sampling style — snippets and textures reminiscent of East Coast mid-’90s production.
Humble within an extensive peer collective, Jadasea has credited Earl Sweatshirt (the pair currently on tour), Wiki, and MIKE as inspirations and collaborators, alongside a colourful history as a founding member of the Sub Luna City collective with Jesse James Solomon and Edgar the Beatmaker — better known as King Krule.
This is “roll down the windows to let the smoke out” music. Jadasea isn’t in a rush; he’s said he enjoys creating more in the crib than the studio — a truth that seeps into his lyrical ease and intimacy.
For fans of: Earl Sweatshirt, Wiki, MIKE
Thursday 6 November – Colour Factory – 10K Global x Pitchfork London with duendita, Niontay, Anysia Kym & more
You may recognise Sydney Minsky Sargeant (‘Syd’) as the frontman of electronic post-punk success Working Men’s Club, however winds seemingly shifted as the Yorkshire singer-songwriter, composer and producer traded city streets for green grass in his long-anticipated woollen album Lunga (Sep 2025). It’s a soft hamper approach of sincerity left on the doorstep — unimposing yet powerfully thoughtful — a tale of adolescence to adulthood with tracks that had ink to paper when he was just 14 years old.
At just 23, this feels like a homecoming for the artist — breathing space with birdsong, but still the abuse of intrusive insecurity that comes with the realisation of parallel versions of oneself and past lives lost in early adulthood. The body of work takes natural progression before calling the curtains on New Day, a final entry of faith placed in a greater plan — and I can certainly agree on a bright future ahead.
For fans of: Bill Callahan, Mazzy Star
Friday 7 November – 93 Feet East – Pitchfork London Selects
Just For Fun is a twinkling, experimental electronica fuck-you club-escapade from Charlotte Boyle (Elphi) and Neave Applebaum. Having debuted their first live show in March 2025, the duo has already triumphed, appearing on posters for The Great Escape Festival, All Points East (alongside George Clanton), and, of course, Pitchfork Festival, with self-hosted 2000s-alt-Brit-culture basement parties wedged in between.
Zest-hot, la seda production JFF lets bubbles burst from the champagne bottle as Boyle takes any flat surface for a dancefloor. Euphoria meets crying in the bathroom; chaos becomes the story across their current singles “Boys” and “Catch Me If You Can.”
For fans of: The Dare, Charli XCX
Saturday 8 November – Multiple Venues, Dalston – Pitchfork London
It appears to be go time for Manchester glitch-junkies Another Country $$$$, who remain low-key to the wider public yet quietly respected by the UK’s underground tastemakers (Pitchfork, So Young Magazine). The duo first caught attention with their 2024 collaborative EP BODYFARM (featuring Crimewave, BUFFEE, and Elsa Hewitt), later describing the adapted track as “like a rebirth” in conversation with Metal Magazine.
Continuing to evolve with a high-contrast, night-flash of self-realised copper taste, the group has strayed onto their own path, chasing the energy of electronic new-wave breakcore alumni such as BASSVICTIM and Sudan Archives.
For fans of: BASSVICTIM, Sudan Archives
Saturday 8 November – Dalston Takeover – with Panchiko, Body Meat, Deep Sea Diver & more
