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 Snail Mail, Summer Walker, Model Home, Dijon, Hana Vu, Darius Jones, Doran, and Mortiferum. 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.)
Snail Mail: Valentine [Matador]
Lindsey Jordan is back with her second album as Snail Mail. Jordan wrote Valentine in 2019 and 2020 and recorded it with producer Brad Cook, who has worked with Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Bruce Hornsby, and many others. The new LP follows 2018’s Lush, and, ahead of its release, Snail Mail shared the title track, “Ben Franklin,” and “Madonna,” all of which arrived with stylish music videos. Read Pitchfork’s feature interview “Snail Mail Can’t Help But Confess.”
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Summer Walker: Still Over It [LVRN/Interscope]
Still Over It is the second album from Atlanta singer Summer Walker. The follow-up to Walker’s 2019 debut Over It and 2020’s Life on Earth EP includes the recent single “Ex for a Reason” (with City Girls’ JT), as well as collaborations with SZA, Pharrell Williams, Lil Durk, Ari Lennox, and Omarion. Still Over It opens with narration from Cardi B and closes with narration from Cardi B and Ciara.
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Model Home: Both Feet en th Infinite [Don Giovanni]
Both Feet en th Infinite is the Don Giovanni debut from Washington, D.C. experimentalists Model Home. The self-described “abstract hip-hop” duo of lyricist Nappy Nappa and producer Pat Cain released their previous LP One Year in the summer of 2020. Watch Model Home’s music videos for the album’s “Night Break” and “Body Power.”
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Dijon: Absolutely [R&R/Warner]
Los Angeles singer and songwriter Dijon recorded his new album Absolutely with a tight-knit group of collaborators and friends over the course of a few weeks. Dijon’s follow-up to 2020’s How Do You Feel About Getting Married? includes lead single “Many Times,” as well as the more recent “Rodeo Clown.”
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Hana Vu: Public Storage [Ghostly]
Public Storage is the first full-length album from Los Angeles–based artist Hana Vu, who released the Nicole Kidman / Anne Hathaway EP in 2019. She named the project for the storage facilities her parents used as the family moved multiple times during her upbringing. Watch Vu’s “Maker” and “Keeper” videos.
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Darius Jones: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) [Northern Spy]
New York–based jazz saxophonist Darius Jones dives into compositions by Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and Georgia Anne Muldrow on Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation), working his way through the aftermath of a divorce. He recorded the project live, and it’s the first time he’s appeared unaccompanied on an album.
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Doran: Doran [Spinster]
Doran wear the freak-folk label proudly, offering exploratory and ecstatic spins on Appalachian-informed sounds on their self-titled debut. The ensemble includes songwriter Brian Dolphin, West of Roan members Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter, and Elizabeth LaPrelle, who’s made music as half of the duo Anna & Elizabeth. Showalter also animated the video for Doran’s “Deer People Reprise.”
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Mortiferum: Preserved in Torment [Profound Lore]
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Mortiferum blur the darkest edges of doom and death metal on their second album Preserved in Torment. They issued their debut Disgorged From Psychotic Depths in 2019 and released a one-off track titled “Abhorrent Genesis” last fall. Citing American and Finnish metal as their biggest influences, Mortiferum released “Exhumed From Mortal Spheres” and “Eternal Procession” to preview Preserved in Torment.
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