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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new full-length projects from Taylor Swift, Sofia Kourtesis, the Mountain Goats, Ragana, Shabazz Palaces, Shordie Shordie & Murda Beatz, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, María José Llergo, and New Age Doom & Tuvaband. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) [Republic]

Amid what’s been a blockbuster year for the pop star, the latest installment of Taylor Swift’s series of re-recorded “Taylor’s Version” releases has arrived. The update of 1989 includes the previously unreleased “‘Slut!’,” “Say Don’t Go,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Suburban Legends,” and “Is It Over Now?” It also includes new versions of the hit songs “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Wildest Dreams,” and “Bad Blood.”

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Sofia Kourtesis: Madres [Ninja Tune]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Sampha, Blink-182, Jane Remover, Titanic, Lost Girls, Maria BC, Galya Bisengalieva, Pink Navel & Kenny Segal, and Katie von Schleicher. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Sampha: Lahai [Young]

Years after Sampha released his debut album, the Mercury Prize–winning Process, he’s returned with the follow-up, Lahai. The new album features contributions from Yaeji, Léa Sen, Sheila Maurice-Grey of Kokoroko, Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson of Black Midi, Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves, El Guincho, and Kwake Bass. Read Pitchfork’s review of “Spirit 2.0,” named Best New Track.

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Blink-182: One More Time… [Columbia]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums and EPs from Bad Bunny, Boygenius, L’Rain, Jamila Woods, MIKE, Helena Deland, Westside Gunn, Squirrel Flower, Ceci Bastida, and the Drums. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Bad Bunny: Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana [Rimas]

The latest Bad Bunny album’s title means “Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow” in English. It’s an apt name for a project the Puerto Rican star announced just this Monday. Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana features the singles “Where She Goes” and “Un Preview,” as well as contributions from Arcángel, Bryant Myers, De La Ghetto, Eladio Carrión, Feid, Luar La L, Mora, Ñengo, Young Miko, and Yovngchimi.

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Boygenius: The Rest EP [Interscope]

The Alchemist may hail from Beverly Hills, but the prolific producer’s moody and cinematic beats have helped define significant swaths of the New York rap scene, from Mobb Deep, Nas, and Dilated Peoples to Armand Hammer, Action Bronson, and Roc Marciano. For his latest album, he links with MIKE and Wiki, two of the New York underground’s sharpest talents, grizzled veterans despite having yet to graduate from their twenties. Twinkling piano keys and sweeping strings make for a vibe complementary to MIKE’s emotional intelligence and Wiki’s battle-earned wisdom, sure to appease each artist’s fan bases.

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Loraine James: Gentle Confrontation [Hyperdub]

Loraine James was envisioning the album she would have made as a teenager when she cut her latest release, Gentle Confrontation. With song titles like, “I DM U,” “One Way Ticket to the Midwest (Emo),” and “2003,” you can glimpse a bit of the musician and producer’s inspiration. The 16-song LP features guest spots from the likes of Marina Herlop, KeiyaA, Ritchie, Contour, Corey Mastrangelo, and others. James accents her subdued vocals—and those of her contributors—with bracing beats and glimmering washes of synthesizer.

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Föllakzoid: V [Sacred Bones]

The title of Laufey’s second album, Bewitched, is also the title of its closing track, which the Icelandic Chinese artist called “my favorite song I’ve ever written.” Laufey blends traditional jazz with pop structures and instrumentation to create intimate but dramatic music that resonates with Gen Z. Her collaborations with artists like Beabadoobee have also helped.

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Gaika: Drift [Big Dada]

Drift, Gaika’s first album for Big Dada Recordings, finds the London electronic artist drawing inspiration from the likes of Prince, John Coltrane, Massive Attack, A$AP Rocky, Pink Siifu, and the Wu-Tang Clan. Historically far-reaching in his tastes and influences, Gaika also gathers a variety of contributors, including Bbymutha, Azekel, Charlie Stacey, Brbko, the Narrator, and producer Kidä on production.

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Speaker Music: Techxodus [Planet Mu]

DeForrest Brown Jr. has described his new Speaker Music album, Techxodus, as “abstracting Blackness through information overload.” The producer’s work has consistently focused on techno music as an inherently Black mode of expression. His 2022 book, Assembling a Black Counter Culture, for example, traced the history of the genre through the history of Black labor in America, highlighting Detroit as an important nexus for industrial capitalism, techno music, and the Black working class. He’s said Techxodus can be interpreted as an epilogue to the book, another consideration of the boundless forms electronic music can offer.

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Speedy Ortiz return with another bundle of wily hooks and witty, pithy lyrics on fourth album Rabbit Rabbit, the follow-up to 2018’s Twerp Verse. Single “You S02” skewers union-busters and sunken ex-punks, reflecting the band’s sidelines working in and alongside activist movements, while “Ranch vs. Ranch” unspools a movie hero’s origin story. “As I was channeling scenes and sentiments from decades past, I wanted to honor the bands I loved when I first learned guitar, ones that taught me to get lost in the possibilities of this instrument,” Sadie Dupuis said in press materials, referring to touchstones including post-hardcore, the Palm Desert scene, and alternative metal.

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Jeff Rosenstock: Hellmode [Polyvinyl]

Jeff Rosenstock has prevailed as a preeminent punk torchbearer of his era, and is now bigger than ever. Equally, “It’s weird feeling success at the worst possible time, while the world falls apart,” he said in press materials. “These things I’ve been unintentionally working towards for the last two decades have come to fruition now, when everything is on fire.” So he made Hellmode, billed as his biggest and most apocalyptic, but also poppiest, album yet. “It’s funny,” he said, “I feel like in 2023, you can write an unabashedly poppy punk song and it’s probably not gonna be on the radio anyway, so it doesn’t feel like a sellout move. We felt free to make something that just kicks as much ass as possible.”

After turning her attention to multi-layered synths on 2020’s Devotion, singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy returns to spiky, guitar-forward songs on her third LP, Echo the Diamond. She announced the album with “Act Natural” at the end of May, following it with “Memories” and “Get Back” in subsequent weeks. Glaspy has said that Echo the Diamond “is the most fluid and immediate music [she has] ever made.”

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Horrendous: Ontological Mysterium [Season of Mist]

Philadelphia death metal act Horrendous return for a new, uproarious full-length with Ontological Mysterium. It’s the first album from the ensemble in five years, following 2018’s Idol. In addition to Ontological Mysterium’s loud, serrated title track, the band previewed the album with “Cult of Shaad’oah” and “Preterition Hymn.”

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Arnold Dreyblatt: Resolve [Drag City]

Bassist, composer, and instrument builder Arnold Dreyblatt has established himself as an inventive, exploratory performer over the past 50 years. On his new album, Resolve, he reunites with the Orchestra of Excited Strings for the first time since 2002, performing with his upright bass strung with piano wire. “Resolve is dazzling proof of this Orchestra’s musical prowess as well as an astonishing technical achievement,” writes Pitchfork’s Matthew Blackwell.

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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums, mixtapes, and EPs from Noname, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Gloss Up, Rob Moose, Tomu DJ, Andrew Hung, Edsel Axle, and Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Noname: Sundial [self-released]

After years of anticipation, Noname has finally released her new album, Sundial. It features Jay Electronica, Eryn Allen Kane, $ilkmoney, billy woods, Stout, Common, Ayoni, and more, and Saba is among the producers. “Noname is not trying to sell herself as a revolutionary,” Alphonse Pierre writes in his review. “She’s also unafraid of biting self-reflection that leaves her own contradictions out in the open. In rap, where it’s so often about seeming indestructible, hanging yourself out to dry is a gutsy move.”

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You [Drag City]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Bambii, Florry, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, Iceboy Violet, Gaadge, Stolen Jars, and Dippers. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Bambii: Infinity Club [Innovative Leisure]

Toronto DJ and producer Kirsten Azan’s debut EP as Bambii makes a case for its title in just under twenty minutes, packing the runtime with club-ready tracks expanding on her signature blend of garage, jungle, industrial, R&B, and dancehall. Infinity Club features “Wicked Gyal,” “Hooked” with Aluna, and “One Touch.” Bambii’s credits this year also include a hand in the production of Kelela’s Raven lead single “On the Run.”

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Florry: The Holey Bible [Dear Life]

Greta Gerwig is not the only beloved entity to be drawn into the Barbieverse by the magnetism of famous-doll IP. Mark Ronson oversees the project, recruiting a “chic, diverse roster” that includes “artists whose identities weren’t fully represented by Mattel until around 2016, when in response to declining sales, the brand started thinking more actively beyond leggy white women with big tits,” as Cat Zhang notes in her barbed review. The full soundtrack lineup includes Tame Impala, Charli XCX, and Haim, alongside Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, PinkPantheress, Nicki Minaj, and Ice Spice, among others. If nothing else, bask in the knowledge that all this will soon be over. Until the next Mattel film.

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Ludwig Göransson: Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Back Lot Music]

On the other end of the frivolity spectrum, here we have movie supercomposer (and longtime Childish Gambino collaborator) Ludwig Göransson with his soundtrack to the film that reckons with the guy who made the atomic bomb, and asks whether that was a good idea. Göransson, who also soundtracked Christopher Nolan’s previous film, Tenet, primarily used tetchy violins to capture what Nolan euphemistically called “the highly-strung intellect and emotion of Robert Oppenheimer.”

Colter Wall, the Saskatchewan country singer-songwriter, has released his first album released as part of a collaboration between La Honda and RCA Records. In addition to several originals, it includes covers of Hoyt Axton’s “Evangelina” and Ian Tyson’s “The Coyote & the Cowboy.” Little Songs is Wall’s first album since 2020’s Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs.

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Lil Tjay: 222 [Columbia]

Lil Tjay survived a shooting on June 22, 2022. His new album, 222, features a song called “June 22nd,” plus a sequel to his post-shooting release “Beat the Odds.” It features contributions from Summer Walker, Polo G, Fivio Foreign, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Coco Jones, Jadakiss, and the Kid Laroi.

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Far Caspian: The Last Remaining Light [Tiny Library]

Irish musician Joel Johnston records under the name Far Caspian; The Last Remaining Light is the follow-up to 2021’s Ways to Get Out. The new album threads haunting harmony and knotty, post-hardcore cadences into a rousing folk frame. “My initial songs were part of a healing process that I went through at an early age, so I don’t really identify with them as much anymore,” Johnston said in a statement. “I’ve drifted very far from that—not just emotionally, but also stylistically.”

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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Taylor Swift, ANOHNI and the Johnsons, PJ Harvey, Julie Byrne, Rauw Alejandro, Lauren Bousfield, Little Dragon, and K-Lone. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) [Republic]

Taylor Swift’s starry-eyed coming-of-age album, Speak Now, gets the Taylor’s Version treatment in the latest installment of her full-length re-recording series. Thirteen years after the original album’s release, the redux finds Swift grappling anew with fame, celebrity, and imminent superstardom, themes reflected in the uneasy balance between her country and pop modes. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) features vault tracks newly recorded with Fall Out Boy and Paramore’s Hayley Williams. “Since Speak Now was all about my songwriting, I decided to go to the artists who I feel influenced me most powerfully as a lyricist at that time and ask them to sing on the album,” Swift said on social media.

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ANOHNI and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross [Secretly Canadian]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Lil Uzi Vert, Joanna Sternberg, Lucinda Williams, Sweeping Promises, Tainy, Veeze, Chester Watson, and Hayden Pedigo. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape [Generation Now/Atlantic]

Lil Uzi Vert announced Pink Tape, their official follow-up to 2020’s Eternal Atake, with a samurai-themed trailer that launched them on a quest to a haunted temple, with a soundtrack of cascading vocals woven into antic beats and hyperactive metal riffs. Guests on Pink Tape include Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Babymetal, Bring Me the Horizon, and Don Toliver. The 26-track album, preceded by “Just Wanna Rock,” is Lil Uzi Vert’s first since pleading no contest last year to charges of assaulting their ex-girlfriend and threatening her with a firearm.

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Joanna Sternberg: I’ve Got Me [Fat Possum]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Queens of the Stone Age, Killer Mike, Sigur Rós, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pat Metheny, Asake, Fust, Bonny Doon, and Bettye LaVette. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman… [Matador]

For Joshua Homme, the creation of Queens of the Stone Age’s new album, In Times New Roman…, came during a custody dispute, a cancer diagnosis, and the deaths of friends. “I think this is the first time I didn’t want to make a record, but I was dealing with a lot of stuff in my personal life,” he said in an interview. “We recorded a lot of stuff. I think I was doing it because when I’m in trouble, this is what I do. This is where I go to get right.” The follow-up to 2017’s Villains includes the singles “Emotion Sickness,” “Paper Machete,” and “Carnavoyeur.”

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Killer Mike: Michael [Loma Vista]

In 2009 Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood performed on Dudu Tassa’s album Basof Mitraglim Le’Hakol. Then, in 2017, the Israeli artist opened for Radiohead on tour. Now, in 2023, Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood have reconnected for their joint album, Jarak Qaribak. The new album was mixed by Radiohead collaborator Nigel Goodrich and has guest contributions from singers hailing from across the Middle East.

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Youth Lagoon: Heaven Is a Junkyard [Fat Possum]

For a few years, Trevor Powers was just Trevor Powers. The name Youth Lagoon was revived for Heaven Is a Junkyard following a health scare that caused Powers to lose his voice for months. Featuring the singles “Prizefighter” and “Idaho Alien,” Powers describes the new album as “stories of brothers leaving for war, drunk fathers learning to hug, mothers falling in love, neighbors stealing mail, cowboys doing drugs, friends skipping school, me crying in the bathtub, dogs catching rabbits, and children playing in tall grass.”

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Aja Monet: When the Poems Do What They Do [Drink Sum Wtr]

Poetry and jazzy live instrumentation meet on Aja Monet’s When the Poems Do What They Do. Raised in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood, she learned the power of poetry at programs throughout the city, as well as at Sarah Lawrence College. Across the album, Monet pays homage to her New York roots and the Black poets who came before her. 

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RP Boo achieved international acclaim with his 2013 archival album, Legacy, but the footwork pioneer’s vault remains deep. Legacy Volume 2 collects tracks the Chicago producer made between 2002 and 2007, many of them unknown. He made the single “Pop Machine” while working at a Chicago gas station where a faulty vending machine, having swallowed a customer’s money, started barking “Work!” whenever he pressed a button. “What inspires me to keep going is seeing the people having an awesome time moving on the dancefloor, as well as playing music that is a recognizable part of my life,” RP Boo said in press materials. “I’m one with it.”

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Madison McFerrin: I Hope You Can Forgive Me [MadMcFerrin Music]

Madison McFerrin explores traumas and triumphs on I Hope You Can Forgive Me, her first full-length studio album. The singer and producer announced the LP with “(Please Don’t) Leave Me Now,” a song that she wrote about surviving a severe car wreck unharmed. McFerrin called the single “God Herself” a “self-empowerment bop,” and her father, the celebrated singer Bobby McFerrin, appears on the album, too. I Hope You Can Forgive Me also includes “Stay Away (From Me),” which McFerrin released as a single last year.

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Jessie Ware, the National, Indigo de Souza, Avalon Emerson & the Charm, Dazegxd & Quinn, Lisa/Liza, JFDR, and Baby Rose. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! [Interscope]

Jessie Ware reaffirmed her seat on the disco-revival throne with “Pearls,” a single from her fifth album, That! Feels Good!, and sashayed deeper into the dancefloor with piano house song “Free Yourself.” She has framed the album as a “conversation” with her LGBTQ+ fans: “They wanted me to be this kind of dominatrix commander to them,” she told Pitchfork. “They relished it, and they willed it on. So I was like, OK, I’ll give you a bit more of that!” Read more in the feature “Jessie Ware’s Pleasure Principle.”

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The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein [4AD]

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums, EPs, and mixtapes from Feist, Kara Jackson, Angel Olsen, Fenne Lily, Kiko el Crazy, Terry, MC Yallah, Shawny Binladen, Jesus Piece, and Natural Information Society. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Feist: Multitudes [Interscope]

On Multitudes, her first album in six years, Feist conjures up symphonic swells dotted with with introspective intervals and spacious sound design. Writing during the pandemic, the beloved Canadian singer-songwriter drew thematic inspiration from a pair of life-changing ruptures: the birth of her daughter and the sudden death of her father. She announced the LP with a trio of singles, including “In Lightning,” a song whose “interplay of onomatopoeic vocal layers, skittering drums, and string parts is reminiscent of Vespertine-era Björk,” wrote Pitchfork’s Jill Mapes.

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Kara Jackson: Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? [September]

Somehow, left field MCs Jpegmafia and Danny Brown had collaborated only sparingly before “Lean Beef Patty,” the lead single from their first joint album, Scaring the Hoes. The rappers have been teasing the project for over a year, with fans anticipating a collaboration for even longer. The album includes the recently released title track, as well as an appearance from young artist Redveil on “Kingdom Hearts Key.” Certain titles reference big-name artists—some revered, others maligned (see: “Shut Yo Bitch Ass Up / Muddy Waters,” “Run the Jewels,” and “Jack Harlow Combo Meal”).

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Ben Sloan: Muted Colors [New Amsterdam]

Muted Colors is the debut album from Ben Sloan, a percussionist, producer, and visual artist who has worked with the National, Moses Sumney, Beth Orton, and others. The spectral, collaged full-length features some of Sloan’s prior collaborators, such as Sumney, Serengeti, Liz and Josiah Wolf of Why?, and Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors. In a press release, Sloan referred to Muted Colors as “an abstracted diary” in which “each track is a vignette. A little colorful, sensational world to briefly indulge.” Sloan toyed with the album’s 10 songs for nearly a decade, splicing samples, voice memos, and field recordings together in vivid tableaus.

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums, projects, and EPs from Yves Tumor, 100 gecs, M83, EST Gee, Kosoya Gora, Tei Shi, Deathcrash, and Doug Paisley. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)

Yves Tumor: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) [Warp]

Yves Tumor chose a lengthy, enigmatic title for their third LP for Warp: Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds). The album follows through even further on the artist’s shift from noisy electronic work to songs with a pronounced rock influence. Yves Tumor shared several tracks from the record ahead of its release, including “Echolalia,” “Heaven Surrounds Us Like a Hood,” “Parody,” and “God Is a Circle.” Listen to “The Subversive Power of Fever Ray and Yves Tumor” on the Pitchfork Review podcast.

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100 gecs: 10,000 gecs [Dog Show/Atlantic]