With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new projects from Father John Misty, Kim Deal, Red Hot Organization, Bibio, Michael Kiwanuka, Tashi Dorji, Wizkid, Lifted, Rogê, Boldy James & Harry Fraud, Djrum. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana [Sub Pop]
Since rising to acclaim (and a little infamy) with 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear, Josh Tillman has alternately indulged and rejected his status as indie-rock’s leading 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 classic Tillmanian monologue of “I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All.” As Anna Gaca writes in her review, “The mood swings are wilder, the logic more tangential; the songwriting might be the best it’s ever been.”
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Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More [4AD]
