With so much good music playing all the time, it can be difficult to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a list of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s bundle includes new albums from Arca, HAIM, MIKE, Jessie Ware, and Quin Kirchner. Sign up for the Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to receive our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our affiliate links, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Ark: KiCk i [XL]
Arca released the 62-minute piece @@@@@@ in February but KiCk i is the first studio LP by the Venezuelan producer since 2017 Ark. The new album was directed by “Nonbinary”, “Time” and “Mequetrefe”, as well as the collaboration of Rosalía “KLK”. Other KiCk i guests include Björk, SOPHIE, and Shygirl.
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HAIM: Women in Music Pt. III [Columbia]
Each of the Haim sisters took advantage of a heavy personal setback to inspire the composition of their third LP, co-produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam and Ariel Rechtshaid. Women in Music Pt. III it strays from the trio’s usual summery humor and grows into more carefully shaded nuances. Read Pitchfork’s Best New Music review by Women in Music Pt. III.
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MICHAEL: The weight of the world [10k]
A year after falling Happiness tearsBronx rapper MIKE is back with The weight of the world. The album, which MIKE produced largely under its alias DJ Blackpower, has contributions from well-known faces such as Earl Sweatshirt, KeiyaA, Jadasea and Darryl Johnson. Check out Pitchfork’s review of the single “Nothin2Say (Never Forget)”.
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Jessie Ware: What is your pleasure [PMR/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope]
After a frustrating cycle of touring around their third album. Greenhouse In 2018, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware said her mother advised her to quit music. Instead, Ware turned more attention to her popular food podcast. Table Manners (which he receives with his mother) and his family. Ware’s new record, What is your pleasure, grew out of their reassembled priorities. Check out Pitchfork’s Best New Track review of the first album “Spotlight”.
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Quin Kirchner: Shadows and light [Astral Spirits]
Drummer and DJ Quin Kirchner developed his skills on the busy free jazz scene of his native Chicago. In Shadows and light, delivers original material along with compositions by Sun Ra (“Planet Earth”), Kelan Phil Cohran (“Sahara”) and Carla Bley (“King Korn”). The album’s heavy wind arrangements include extensive saxophones and bass clarinet, as well as trombone and keys.
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