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 from Roddy Ricch, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and Chief Keef. 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.)
Roddy Ricch: Live Life Fast [Atlantic]
Live Life Fast is the second album from Compton rapper Roddy Ricch, who earned a handful of Grammy nominations with the breakout success of his 2019 debut Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. This year, he’s appeared on songs with 42 Dugg (“4 Da Gang”) and Lil Wayne and Birdman (“Stunnaman”), in addition to joining Kanye West on Donda’s “Pure Souls.” He released the new solo track “Late at Night” in June before revealing the album intro with a short visual earlier this month.
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Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: La Panthère des Neiges (Original Soundtrack) [Invada/Lakeshore]
Following February’s Carnage, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis joined forces as a duo again for the soundtrack to Marie Amguet and Vincent Munier’s wildlife documentary La Panthére des Neiges, which premiered at Cannes over the summer. The film follows Munier (a photographer) and novelist Sylvain Tesson as they pursue a rare sighting of the titular snow leopard in Tibet. Cave and Ellis previously collaborated on music for Kings, War Machine, Wind River, and The Case Against Adnan Sayd, among other films.
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland: Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined [Transgressive]
Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s new remix album features updated tracks from his 1986 LP Keyboard Fantasies. Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined includes reworks by Kelsey Lu, Arca, Julia Holter, Bon Iver and Flock of Dimes, Blood Orange, and more. Lu shared her take on the album’s opening track “Ever New” earlier this year.
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Chief Keef: 4Nem [Glo Gang/RBC]
Chief Keef spent 2020 in collaborative mode, contributing to Lil Uzi Vert’s “Chrome Heart Tags” and “Bean (Kobe),” joining 2 Chainz on “Free Lighter,” appearing on “Bands in da Basement” with 03 Greedo, and sharing “Bang Bang” from a purported full-length with Mike Will Made-It. 4Nem is his solo return, following 2017’s Dedication. He’s released a handful other songs this year, including 4Nem’s “Hadouken” and “The Talk,” as well as stadalone tracks “Tear da Club Up” and “Something Im Best At.”
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