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 EPs from Yo La Tengo, Paramore, Liv.e, Kelela, Andy Shauf, Two Shell, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Pearla, Jadasea & Laron, and Sreaming To. 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.)
Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World [Matador]
This Stupid World is the 17th studio album album from Yo La Tengo, who mark their 40th anniversary as a band this year. The group wrote, recorded, and self-produced the record at their practice space in Hoboken, New Jersey. “One thing we have gotten increasingly good at is not setting goals for ourselves, but trying to appreciate what’s in front of us at any given moment and making that work,” Kaplan told Pitchfork. Read Pitchfork’s feature “Forty Years In, Yo La Tengo Are Still Making It Up as They Go.”
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