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 Cate Le Bon, Mitski, Animal Collective, Saba, Yeule, and Adekunle Gold. 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.)
Cate Le Bon: Pompeii [Mexican Summer]
Pompeii is the Welsh artist Cate Le Bon’s sixth studio album. Led by the single “Running Away,” the follow-up to 2019’s Reward is co-produced by longtime collaborator Samur Khouja and Le Bon, who plays every instrument except for the drums (performed by Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa) and the saxophone. Read the feature “Cate Le Bon Chooses Absurdity.”
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Mitski: Laurel Hell [Dead Oceans]
Mitski’s sixth album arrives after a period of absence. After the release of her 2018 album Be the Cowboy, Mitski took a break from performing. She left social media and considered quitting the music business. On songs like “Working for the Knife,” Laurel Hell confronts Mitski’s complicated relationship to her profession, while others, such as “The Only Heartbreaker,” address romantic desires and dismays. Revisit Pitchfork’s feature “Don’t Cry for Mitski.”
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Animal Collective: Time Skiffs [Domino]
After more than half a decade, Animal Collective have reunited for a new album called Time Skiffs. The record sees the quartet—Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, Dave “Avey Tare” Portner, Josh “Deakin” Dibb, and Brian “Geologist” Weitz—working together for the first time since 2012’s Centipede Hz.
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Saba: Few Good Things [The Orchard]
Few Good Things is Chicago rapper Saba’s first album since 2018’s Care for Me. The record was led by “Fearmonger,” “Stop That,” “Come My Way,” and “Survivor’s Guilt.” The album features appearances from G Herbo, 6lack, Smino, Pivot Gang, Black Thought, Mereba, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Krayzie Bone, and more.
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Yeule: Glitch Princess [Bayonet]
Yeule is the alter ego of the Singapore-born, London-based artist Nat Ćmiel. Their latest album, Glitch Princess, features co-production from PC Music’s Danny L Harle on songs like “Too Dead Inside.”
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Adekunle Gold: Catch Me If You Can [Afro Urban]
Catch Me If You Can is the latest album from Nigerian singer Adekunle Gold. His first record since 2020’s Afro Pop, Vol 1 features appearances from Ty Dolla $ign, Davido, Lucky Dave, and more.
