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 Pop Smoke, Willie Nelson, Westside Gunn, Boris, Patten, and Greg Foat. 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.)
Pop Smoke: Shoot the stars Aim for the moon [Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic]
After the previously shared Virgil Abloh album cover sparked controversy, Pop Smoke’s posthumous new album arrives today with a new cover and feature-packed song list. Young Thug, Gunna, Quavo, 50 Cent, DaBaby, Future, Lil Baby, Swae Lee, and Tyga are among the guests at Shoot the stars Aim for the moon.
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Willie Nelson: First spring rose [Legacy]
First spring rose It is the latest in a steady stream of albums by country icon Willie Nelson. The album, which follows last year. Ride Me Back Home– features the previously released title track, the cover of Nelson’s son Micah, and two songs co-written by Nelson and Buddy Cannon.
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Westside Gunn: Flygod is an awesome God II [Griselda]
Just a few months after the launch of Pray for ParisBuffalo rapper Westside Gunn has dropped another feature. The sequel to the 2019 years Flygod is an awesome god features Benny the Butcher from Griselda, plus Keisha Plum, Boldy James, and Daringer.
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Boris NO [self-released]
Last week, the pillars of outre rock announced this self-released album in a “resignation” statement: “We hope this latest album can be a mirror that brings together and reflects people’s negative energy at a different angle, one that is positive. ” He wrote “That is the power and potential of the dark, extreme and brutal music that we have experienced thus far.” The album contains a cover of “Fundamental Error” by Japanese hardcore punk group GUDON, as well as an “Anti-Gone,” which yesterday received a video in which a lone dancer strikes at an empty music venue.
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clog: RADIANCE [555-5555]
In the past year FLEX, British producer’s brand 555-5555 maiden LP, Patten re-recorded club music without guest vocalists. This time, he has also dodged the rhythms for the electronic washing of RADIANCE. It was preceded by the single “SOFT POWER”.
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Greg Foat: Symphonie Pacifique [Strut]
UK jazz artist summons choral textures, harp, steel pedal, and tubular bells at Symphonie Pacifique, expanding his piano-directed compositions to include contributions from Zimbabwean drummer Sam Chagumachinyi and a tribute to great music from the Duncan Lamont Library. It was recorded between London, Edinburgh and Gothenburg.
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