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 affords a run-down of serious new releases obtainable on streaming companies. This week’s batch consists of new albums from billy woods; Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke; PinkPantheress; MIKE & Tony Seltzer; Erika de Casier; Kali Uchis; Cole Pulice; Preoccupations; Kara-Lis Coverdale; and Mclusky. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing by our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
billy woods: Golliwog [Backwoodz Studioz]
Remarkably, Golliwog is billy woods’ first album and not using a devoted inventive accomplice since 2019’s Terror Management. Nonetheless, he welcomes visitor rappers and producers aplenty throughout the brand new album’s 18 tracks. Among the many contributors are acquainted faces like Elucid, the Alchemist, El-P, Preservation, DJ Haram, Kenny Segal, and Despot, to call solely a handful. As woods swings from one standout observe to the following, he fleshes out a narrative about an “evil golliwog” that he wrote when he was 9 years previous and all of the realities—displacement, war-torn trauma, love triangles, real-life horror tales—that it might probably characterize.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales [Warp]
