Bao Ngo), Ariana Grande (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)’>With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be arduous to find out what to hearken to first. Every week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases accessible on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums and EPs from Mitski, Ariana Grande, Young Thug, Animal Collective, Trevor Powers, Anna Meredith, and Oh Sees. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week.
Mitski: Be the Cowboy [Dead Oceans]
“For this new record, I experimented in narrative and fiction,” Mitski says in an announcement about Be the Cowboy, explaining that the character she had in thoughts for the challenge was “a very controlled icy repressed woman who is starting to unravel.” The follow-up to 2016’s Puberty 2 contains the beforehand launched “Geyser” and “Nobody” (each named Best New Tracks), in addition to the closing monitor “Two Slow Dancers.” Read our new profile, “Don’t Cry for Mitski.”
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Ariana Grande: Sweetener [Republic]
Sweetener is the follow-up to Ariana Grande’s 2016 album Dangerous Woman. It’s led by “No Tears Left to Cry,” the Nicki Minaj-featuring “The Light is Coming” produced by Pharrell, and “God Is a Woman” (which arrived with an epic video). Missy Elliott additionally seems.
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Young Thug: Slime Language [300 Entertainment/Atlantic/YSL]
Slime Language is a compilation album from Thug’s Young Stoner Life label. It options label artist Gunna, Duke, HiDoraah, Dolly, Lil Keed, Tracy T, Strick, Nechie, and Karlae, plus options from Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert, Jacquees, and Trapboy Freddy. Last yr, he launched the joint Young Martha EP with Carnage and the collaborative Super Slimey mixtape with Future. In April, he dropped the 3-song Hear No Evil EP.
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Animal Collective: Tangerine Reef [Domino]
In February 2017, Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, Deakin, and Geologist carried out an hour-long set known as “Coral Orgy,” set to coral reef visuals by the media firm Coral Morphologic. That efficiency ultimately led to their new audiovisual album, Tangerine Reef. It commemorates the 2018 International Year of the Reef.
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Trevor Powers: Mulberry Violence [Baby Halo]
Mulberry Violence is Trevor Powers’ first album since he called it quits on his Youth Lagoon challenge in 2016. “Mulberry Violence… is the place stillness meets pandemonium,” Powers says in an announcement. “Dead air meets babel. Harmony meets war. Sisters from the same womb, separated at birth. It serves as a personal document of the everlasting battle inside of us.” Read the monitor overview for “Playwright.”
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Anna Meredith: Anno [Moshi Moshi]
On Anno, Anna Meredith combines authentic compositions with items from Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” It was recorded with the Scottish Ensemble violin orchestra and marks her first new album since 2016’s Varmints. Check out the monitor overview for “Low Light — Ice,” a re-imagination of Vivaldi’s “Winter.”
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Oh Sees: Smote Reverser [Castle Face]
Smote Reverser is the latest from John Dwyer’s Oh Sees challenge. It follows their Orc album from final August and Dwyer’s Memory of a Cut Off Head, launched final November beneath his OCS moniker.
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