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 Amber Mark, Modern Nature, Katie Dey, Babyface Ray, and Mø. 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.)
Amber Mark: Three Dimensions Deep [PMR/Interscope]
Since issuing her Conexão EP in 2018, New York–based singer Amber Mark has shared a handful of new singles and covered the likes of Sisqo, Eddie Kendricks, and Nirvana. Three Dimensions Deep is her full-length debut, assembled around a three-act structure. She shared “Competition,” “Softly,” “Foreign Things,” “What It Is,” and “Worth It” from the album ahead of its arrival. In his review of Three Dimensions Deep, Eric Torres writes, “Energetic, lush, and measured, Three Dimensions Deep is a cohesive debut from Mark that doesn’t lose sight of the bespoke sound that she’s developed over the years.”
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Modern Nature: Island of Noise [Bella Union]
A re-read of Shakespeare’s The Tempest inspired the title of Island of Noise, Jack Cooper’s latest album fronting the loose-limbed London outfit Modern Nature. The project is the third release as Modern Nature from the former Ultimate Painting guitarist, following the 2020 mini-album Annual and 2019’s How to Live.
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Katie Dey: Forever Music [self-released]
Forever Music is the fifth album from Australian experimental pop artist Katie Dey and her first without a label since 2015. She described Forever Music as an album “about the eternal power of music and genuine love between women,” with an emphasis on defiant survival. After 2020’s Mydata, Dey released a remix counterpart early last year titled Urdata, which featured contributions from Tomberlin, Laura Les, Baths, and more.
Babyface Ray: Face [Wavy Gang/Empire]
Detroit’s Babyface Ray issued his Unfuckwithable EP last year, and his new full-length, Face, features more guests, including Wiz Khalifa, 42 Dugg, and Yung Lean. Pusha T and Landstrip Chip join him on “Dancing With the Devil,” too. The rapper released “Sincerely Face” as a single earlier this month. Revisit “Babyface Ray Is the Voice of Detroit” on the Pitch.
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Mø: Motordrome [Columbia]
Motordrome, the third album from Danish singer-songwriter, Mø arrives nearly four after its predecessor, 2018’s Forever Neverland. Mø said that she wrote the record as a way to re-emerge from a period of anxiety and exhaustion. She’s shared “Goosebumps” and “Brad Pitt” as singles from the album.
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