With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of serious new releases out there on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains new initiatives from Father John Misty, Kim Deal, Pink Sizzling Group, Bibio, Michael Kiwanuka, Tashi Dorji, Wizkid, Lifted, Rogê, Boldy James & Harry Fraud, Djrum. 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. If you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana [Sub Pop]
Since rising to acclaim (and slightly infamy) with 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear, Josh Tillman has alternately indulged and rejected his standing as indie-rock’s main provocateur. Mahashmashana, his sixth Father John Misty album, returns to the romantic symphonies and sardonic alt-rock of that breakout LP, as previewed on “Screamland,” a seven-minute epic with Low’s Alan Sparhawk on guitar, and the traditional Tillmanian monologue of “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.” As Anna Gaca writes in her review, “The temper swings are wilder, the logic extra tangential; the songwriting may be one of the best it’s ever been.”
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Kim Deal: No one Loves You Extra [4AD]
