With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be exhausting to find out what to hearken to first. Every week, Pitchfork presents a run-down of serious new releases obtainable on streaming providers. This week’s batch consists of new albums, initiatives, and EPs from Yves Tumor, Spiritualized, Joey Purp, Paul McCartney, Slowthai, Waxahatchee, Kilo Kish, and Oliver Coates. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week.
Yves Tumor: Safe in the Hands of Love [Warp]
Safe within the Hands of Love follows Yves Tumor’s 2017 compilation Experiencing the Deposit of Faith and 2016 LP Serpent Music. It’s Yves’ first undertaking for Warp. Read the observe opinions for “Licking an Orchid,” “Noid,” and “Lifetime” (the latter two named Best New Track).
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Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt [Fat Possum/Bella Union]
And Nothing Hurt is Spiritualized’s first new album in six years, following Sweet Heart Sweet Light. “I’m a lot older now and in a weird way I think it’s my last record,” Jason Pierce mentioned in fall 2016. He added in a current press launch, “It was such hard work. I found myself going crazy for so long.” Read Pitchfork’s overview of “I’m Your Man” and “A Perfect Miracle.”
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Joey Purp: QUARTERTHING [self-released]
Joey Purp’s QUARTERTHING options Ravyn Lenae, RZA, GZA, Queen Key, DJ Taye, Knox Fortune, and extra. It marks the Chicago rapper’s first undertaking since issuing his iiiDrops mixtape in 2016. Watch the YAKUB films-directed clip for “Bag Talk.”
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Paul McCartney: Egypt Station [Capitol]
Egypt Station is Paul McCartney’s first new full-length in 5 years, following his 2013 LP NEW. It features a tune known as “Fuh You,” which Sir Paul described as “[s]ort of a love song, but a raunchy love song.”
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Slowthai: RUNT EP [Method]
RUNT is the primary undertaking from Northampton MC Slowthai since his 2017 EP I WISH I KNEW. Check out the observe overview for “Drug Dealer,” and the Rising function “Get to Know Slowthai, the Most Exciting—and Excitable—New UK Rapper Out Right Now.”
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Waxahatchee: Great Thunder EP [Merge]
Katie Crutchfield says her new Waxahatchee EP, Great Thunder, “is a complete 180 from the last record,” 2017’s Out in the Storm. “[S]uper stripped-down, quiet, and with me performing solo, it’s a throwback to how I started,” she added. Check out Pitchfork’s observe overview of “Chapel of Pines.”
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Kilo Kish: MOTHE EP [Blacksmith]
MOTHE follows Kilo Kish’s 2016 LP Reflections in Real Time. “MOTHE is impressed by the elegant magnificence, cost, and creativity present in all nature,” she mentioned in assertion. Read the Best New Track overview for “Elegance.”
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Oliver Coates: Shelley’s on Zenn-La [RVNG Intl.]
Shelley’s on Zenn-La is the third solo report from cellist and Radiohead collaborator Oliver Coates. It’s additionally his first launch for RVNG Intl. The album title was impressed by the defunct Stoke-on-Trent nightclub Shelley’s Laserdome. Read the observe overview for “Charlev.”
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