With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be arduous to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork gives a run-down of great new releases out there on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains new albums from Earl Sweatshirt, Mac DeMarco, Nourished by Time, Deftones, Ghostface Killah, Water From Your Eyes, Wolf Alice, Kathleen Edwards, Ami Taf Ra, Superchunk, Hunx and His Punx, Scree, and Greg Freeman. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing by way of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Earl Sweatshirt: Stay Snigger Love [Tan Cressida/Warner]
Earl Sweatshirt trickled out Stay Love Snigger with cheeky teasers and a Los Angeles listening get together. The brand new album follows the 2023 Alchemist collaboration Voir Dire, and it’s the rapper’s first solo effort since 2022’s Sick!, nevertheless it actually shares its DNA with 2018 opus Some Rap Songs. The 11-song album is equally stuffed with off-kilter, sample-driven beats, and the Californian’s lyrics and deadpan supply are as potent and affecting as ever. Producers on the album embrace Theravada, Navy Blue, Black Noi$e, and Baby Actor, and Erykah Badu provides vocals to the closing “Exhaust.”
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Mac DeMarco: Guitar [Mac’s Record Label]
