With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be laborious to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases out there on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains 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. Whenever 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 with out a devoted inventive associate since 2019’s Terror Management. However, 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 could possibly signify.
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