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 Rosalía, Charli XCX, Oso Oso, Bladee & Ecco2K, Hinako Omori, and Midwxst. 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.)
The long-awaited follow-up to Rosalía’s Grammy-winning breakout 2018 album El Mal Querer has finally arrived. She teased its impending announcement in November with “La Fama,” her collaboration with the Weeknd. Following the album’s official announcement, she performed on Saturday Night Live and released the singles “Hentai,” “Saoko,” and “Chicken Teriyaki.”
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Charli XCX: Crash [Atlantic]
Two years after her quarantine-recorded album How I’m Feeling Now, Charli XCX returns with Crash. The album features a number of guests, with Rina Sawayama appearing on “Beg for You,” and Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens joining her on “New Shapes.” Oneohtrix Point Never and A. G. Cook also co-produced recent single “Every Rule.” The album spans multiple pop styles, drawing from new jack swing, mid-’80s pop, and present-day hyperpop. Read Owen Myers’ review of Crash.
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Oso Oso: Sore Thumb [Triple Crown]
Nobody was expecting the follow-up to 2019’s Basking in the Glow right now, but Jade Lilitri is back with a surprise full-length. The album was recorded with Tavish Maloney, Lilitri’s cousin who died less than a month after they finished recording. “The making of this record is a now a memory of a time that I hold closer to my heart than anything,” Lilitri said.
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Bladee & Ecco2K: Crest [Year0001]
Swedish rapper Bladee teams up with songwriter, producer, and fellow Drain Gang associate Ecco2K for the nine-song Crest. Ecco2K released the 10-minute PXE EP last April, which Bladee followed with a full-length of his own titled The Fool in June. The new album does not include Ecco2K and Bladee’s January single “Amygdala.”
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Hinako Omori: A Journey… [Houndstooth]
Hinako Omori is a London-based sound engineer, and A Journey… is her debut full-length. The album is inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest-bathing. “Being in that environment reduces stress levels, it’s good for well-being, improving our memory and concentration, boosting our immune system and lowering blood pressure, among many other benefits—I wanted to incorporate that into the album,” she remarked.
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Midwxst: Better Luck Next Time. EP [Geffen/Interscope]
Born in South Carolina and raised in Indiana, Edgar Sarratt III folds together hip-hop and hyperpop as Midwxst. Following September’s Back in Action EP, he’s back with Better Luck Next Time. He shared “Step Back,” from the nine-song EP, ahead of its release with a video directed by Daniel Jordan K.
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