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 albums and mixtapes from Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Megan Thee Stallion, Tomu DJ, Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Kiwi Jr., Young Nudy, and Elaine Howley. 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.)
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: Reset [Domino]
Noah Lennox (aka Animal Collective’s Panda Bear) joins forces with Peter Kember (aka Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom) for Reset, where the two artists focus on their love for 1960s pop obscurities. Though the pair have collaborated on their respective solo projects, Reset is their first album as co-creators. Read Daniel Felthensal’s review of Reset, an album he describes as “simple, ecstatic, as elegant as a math formula.”
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Megan Thee Stallion: Traumazine [1501 Certified Entertainment/300 Entertainment]
Traumazine is Megan Thee Stallion’s studio follow-up to 2020’s Good News, and she’s described the project as being exceptionally vulnerable. She announced the album shortly ahead of its arrival, just shy of a year after last year’s odds-and-ends collection Something for Thee Hotties. Traumazine includes the singles “Plan B” and her Future collaboration “Pressurelicious.” Megan’s Dua Lipa duet “Sweetest Pie” is on the album, too, and the LP has other guest appearances from Rico Nasty, Key Glock, Latto, Jhené Aiko, and more.