With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork presents a run-down of serious new releases accessible on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from the Weeknd, MIKE, Lilly Hiatt, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Joe McPhee, Ebo Taylor, Eddie Chacon, and Julia Hülsmann. 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, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow [XO/Republic]
With Hurry Up Tomorrow, the Weeknd shutters his trilogy that started with 2020’s After Hours and the next Dawn FM, from 2022. The brand new album may additionally be the ultimate launch from Abel Tesfaye’s the Weeknd alter ego as we all know it—or at the least, that’s what Tesfaye has been hinting at in interviews. The discharge of Hurry Up Tomorrow, initially slated for a January 24, was postponed out of respect for these affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, which additionally factored into the Weeknd canceling his album-release concert at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl. Hurry Up Tomorrow contains the singles “Timeless” and “São Paulo,” however not “Dancing in the Flames.” Friends on the brand new album embrace Playboi Carti, Anitta, Lana Del Rey, Justice, Giorgio Moroder, Future, Florence and the Machine, and Travis Scott.
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