With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be exhausting to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork gives a run-down of serious new releases out there on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains new albums from FKA twigs, Benjamin Booker, Mogwai, Central Cee, Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta, Sam Amidon, Khadija Al Hanafi, Boldy James, and Kathryn Mohr. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Whenever you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
FKA twigs: Eusexua [Atlantic/Young]
Greater than 5 years after Magdalene, FKA twigs is again with the studio follow-up, Eusexua. The successor to that 2019 opus and the interim mixtape Caprisongs sweeps throughout the breadth of twigs’ pop multiverse, spanning celestial R&B, industrial sound design, and antic membership beats on the epic title track alone. Koreless-produced singles “Drums of Death” and “Perfect Stranger” additionally characteristic.
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