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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 and projects from Gorillaz, Model/Actriz, Maxo, Shame, Yeat, Tink, Katrina Krimsky, the Necks, and Sideshow. 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.)

Gorillaz: Cracker Island [Warner]

Bad Bunny, Thundercat, Stevie Nicks, and Tame Impala all make guest appearances on Cracker Island, the latest LP from Damon Albarn’s long-running animated endeavor, Gorillaz. He sticks to his tenets of pop melodies and hip-hop touches, recruiting Beck and the Pharcyde’s Bootie Brown as returning collaborators. “Cracker Island leans on classic Gorillaz tropes: a handful of attention-grabbing features, a touch of hip-hop, a splash of dub, and great big helpings of Damon Albarn’s big-hearted melodies to bathe the record in misty sunshine,” writes Ben Cardew in his review of the album. Read the rest of Pitchfork’s review of Cracker Island.

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Model/Actriz: Dogsbody [True Panther]

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 Young Fathers, the Men, Raye, Sunny War, Loscil & Lawrence English, Kassem Mosse, Toumba, and Robert Forster. 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.)

Young Fathers: Heavy Heavy [Ninja Tune]

Heavy Heavy is the first full-length from Young Fathers since 2018’s Cocoa Sugar. The trio of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and G. Hastings returned last July to share the album’s lead single, “Geronimo.” The band went on to share the tracks “I Saw,” “Tell Somebody,” and “Rice.”

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The Men: New York City [Fuzz Club]

The latest from New York rockers the Men is a bittersweet tribute to sticking it out in New York during lockdown. “When everyone left NYC, the sewer opened and we crawled out,” the band wrote in a press release. New York City, the band’s ninth album, was announced with “Hard Livin’,” a song about dealing with life’s hardships alone. The new LP follows the Men’s 2020 record, Mercy.

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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 Popcaan, Meg Baird, Lil Yachty, Mark William Lewis, Ruhail Qaisar, Popstar Benny, the Tubs, Oozing Wound, and George. 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.)

Popcaan: Great Is He [OVO Sound]

Dancehall superstar Popcaan is back with his first full-length since 2020’s Fixtape. Great Is He spans 17 tracks and includes guest spots from Drake (“We Caa Done”), Burna Boy (“Aboboyaa”), Toni-Ann Singh (“Next to Me”), and Chronic Law (“St. Thomas Native”). Popcaan and Drake dropped their joint single earlier this month, along with a music video directed by Theo Skudra that was shot in Turks and Caicos.

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Meg Baird: Furling [Drag City]

Furling is the fourth solo album from singer and multi-instrumentalist Meg Baird, who played hypnotic guitar in Philadelphia’s free-flowing Espers and brought thunderous drums to the psych-rock supergroups Heron Oblivion and Watery Love. Working closely with her Heron Oblivion bandmate and partner, Charlie Saufley, Baird delivers nine entrancing songs fleshed out with percussion and piano, starting with the breezy sweep of “Ashes, Ashes.” Furling arrives eight years after 2015’s Don’t Weigh Down the Light; Baird and Saufley had recorded most of the material before the onset of the pandemic, but production delays prolonged its release.

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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 Margo Price, Belle and Sebastian, 03 Greedo & Mike Free, BabyTron, Rozi Plain, One Step Closer, Oliver Coates, and Daniel Pioro. 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.)

Margo Price: Strays [Loma Vista]

In her usual righteous fashion, Margo Price tackles a bevy of issues on her fourth album—abortion rights, drug use, and women’s sexuality among them. For Strays, the Nashville singer-songwriter decamped to Jonathan Wilson’s Fivestar Studio in Topanga Canyon, California, enlisting guests including indie-pop group Lucius and, on “Radio,” Sharon Van Etten. Partly inspired by quitting drinking, the resulting album is another blast of defiant, rousing, psychedelic country rock’n’roll.

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Belle and Sebastian: Late Developers [Matador]

Belle and Sebastian teed up their new album with “I Don’t Know What You See in Me,” a throwback to infectious, slightly infuriating ’90s radio pop. The venerable Scots co-wrote the track with Pete “Wuh Oh” Ferguson, and, on a recent cycle ride, “I allowed myself to forget it was Belle and Sebastian, and pretend it was the latest hit on some random radio station,” said Stuart Murdoch in press materials. “All music is escape, and perhaps we managed to escape a little further than usual with this unexpected tune.” Recorded in the same sessions as last year’s A Bit of Previous, the album, writes superfan Jeff Rosenstock in the bio, “feels like friends in a room together communicating through music and enthusiastically encouraging each other to explore every possible path with fervor and love.”

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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, and EPs from MIKE, Weezer, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Sauce Walka. 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.)

MIKE: Beware of the Monkey [10k]

Beware of the Monkey takes its name from the Chinese calendar, and a horoscope that MIKE interpreted as a warning about the future. The follow-up to last year’s wonderful Disco! was led by the singles “Nuthin I Can Do Is Wrng,” “What Do I Do?,” and “Stop Worry!,” featuring the dancehall legend Sister Nancy. Additional guests on the album include longtime MIKE collaborators Jadasea and King Carter.

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Weezer: Sznz: Winter EP [Crush/Atlantic]

With each new season in 2022, Weezer have released an EP. Following Spring, Summer, and Autumn, there is now Sznz: Winter. Upon the EP’s release, on the winter solstice, Weezer released the music video for “Dark Enough to See the Stars.”

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