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 great new releases out there 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 publication to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. Whenever you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
billy woods: Golliwog [Backwoodz Studioz]
Remarkably, Golliwog is billy woods’ first album with no devoted inventive associate since 2019’s Terror Administration. 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 monitor to the subsequent, he fleshes out a narrative about an “evil golliwog” that he wrote when he was 9 years outdated and all of the realities—displacement, war-torn trauma, love triangles, real-life horror tales—that it may characterize.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales [Warp]
