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 the War on Drugs, Megan Thee Stallion, Lily Konigsberg, Theon Cross, Eris Drew, and Dear Laika. 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 War on Drugs: I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Atlantic]
Adam Granduciel and the War on Drugs’ follow-up to 2017’s A Deeper Understanding has arrived. Co-produced by Granduciel and Shawn Everett, I Don’t Live Here Anymore was recorded across lauded studios including Electric Lady and Sound City. The album features the singles “Change,” “Living Proof,” and “I Don’t Live Here Anymore.” Learn more about the album in Pitchfork’s feature “The War on Drugs Find Lightness on the Edge of Town.”
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Megan Thee Stallion: Something for Thee Hotties [1501 Certified/300]
After last year’s Good News, Megan Thee Stallion continued with a steady stream of music throughout 2021. Something for Thee Hotties collects a lot of these pieces, including her “Southside Forever” and “Outta Town” freestyles and her major summer single “Thot Shit.” The album also includes other material that Megan Thee Stallion had not previously released.
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Lily Konigsberg: Lily We Need to Talk Now [Wharf Cat]
In a year that’s included a compilation, a new Palberta album, and an EP from her new project My Idea, Lily Konigsberg has capped the year with the release of her debut solo album. Lily We Need to Talk Now includes the previously shared track “That’s the Way I Like It.” Revisit Pitchfork’s 2020 Rising interview “Lily Konigsberg Wants to Write the Catchiest Songs You’ve Ever Heard.”
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Theon Cross: Intra-I [New Soil/Marathon]
Intra-I is the latest solo album from Theon Cross, who handles the tuba low ends in Sons of Kemet. He joined the band for Black to the Future earlier this year after releasing his own Fyah in 2019. On Intra-I, Cross pivots into multilayered arrangements of processed tuba and electronics that explore subjects like the legacy of the first-generation Caribbean diaspora in the United Kingdom. The project’s guest vocalists include Shumba Maasai, Remi Graves, and Oren Marshall.
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Eris Drew: Quivering in Time [T4T LUV NRG]
The Chicago DJ Eris Drew decamped to a cabin in New Hampshire during the COVID-19 shutdown, where she began broadcasting DJ sets from a clearing in the forest. The nine-song collection, Quivering in Time, was written, recorded, and mixed “as she stared into the forest through her studio window,” the album’s announcement noted.
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Dear Laika: Pluperfect Mind [Memorials of Distinction/NNA Tapes]
As Dear Laika, 23-year-old Isabelle “Izzy” Thorn sings over fractured, swirling electronic compositions. Pluperfect Mind is her first release on a label, following several sets of tracks she’d self-released via Bandamp. She made the record while self-isolating in England’s southern counties during the pandemic, a period that also included the beginning of her gender transition.
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