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 and EPs from Helado Negro, M83, SASAMI, Stella Donnelly, Kari Faux, Dave, the Coathangers, and Meat Puppets. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week.
Helado Negro: This Is How You Smile [RVNG Intl.]
Roberto Carlos Lange has shared his latest project as Helado Negro. This Is How You Smile follows 2016’s Private Energy, as well as last year’s Island Universe Story Four collection. The new 12-song record features “Running,” which was named Best New Track.
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M83: Knife + Heart (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Mute]
Knife + Heart is an erotic slasher set in a 1970s Paris. It’s directed by Yann Gonzalez and scored by M83, the band fronted by his brother Anthony Gonzalez. The original soundtrack was influenced by music found in ’70s horror films by Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, and others.
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SASAMI is the debut LP from Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sasami Ashworth. Check out Pitchfork’s review of “Callous,” named Best New Track.
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Stella Donnelly: Beware of the Dogs [Secretly Canadian]
Beware of the Dogs is the debut album from Western Australia’s Stella Donnelly. It follows her first EP, Thrush Metal, which originally came out in 2017 and got reissued last year by Secretly Canadian. Check out Pitchfork’s track review of Donnelly’s “Boys Will Be Boys.”
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Kari Faux: CRY 4 HELP EP [Change Minds]
CRY 4 HELP is a five-song EP from Little Rock, Arkansas-born/Los Angeles-based artist Kari Faux. Faux has previously collaborated with Childish Gambino (on “Awaken, My Love!” and STN MTN) and Top Dawg Entertainment’s Isaiah Rashad, among others. She also contributed “Top Down” to the soundtrack for Issa Rae’s HBO series “Insecure.”
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Dave: Psychodrama [Neighbourhood]
David Orobosa Omoregie, better known as the South London rapper Dave, has dropped his debut album. Psychodrama follows 2016’s Six Paths EP and 2017’s Game Over EP. It features his new single “Black.”
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The Coathangers: The Devil You Know [Suicide Squeeze]
The Coathangers from Atlanta are back with their sixth album—one they’ve described as a reinvention. “I don’t care what our previous image was,” guitarist/vocalist Julia Kugel said in a statement. “That’s not us now.” It features the previously shared songs “Bimbo” and “Step Back.”
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Meat Puppets: Dusty Notes [Megaforce]
Dusty Notes marks Meat Puppets’ first new album in 24 years with their original lineup. Following 1995’s No Joke!, the record features the band’s founding members: brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom. The Kirkwoods reunited as Meat Puppets in 2006, releasing Rat Farm in 2013.
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