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 Miley Cyrus; Ty Segall; Caroline; Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko; Matt Berninger; Shura; Yeule; Aesop Rock; Obongjayar; Qasim Naqvi; Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams; and Photographic Memory.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.)Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful [Columbia]After winning the Record of the Year Grammy for “Flowers” last year, Miley Cyrus took a logical next step that so often eludes pop stars at the highest level: She leaned into her weirdest, most experimental impulses for an album that panders to nobody but herself.
Enter Something Beautiful, a wily pop opus with contributions from a diverse array of indie artists.Executive-produced by Cyrus and Shawn Everett, the sprawling album balances its outré intentions by keeping a handle on the most durable pop influences—“the Beatles and Elvis and David Bowie and Prince like Madonna, these are all pop artists,” Cyrus told Apple Music.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicBuy at Rough TradeTy Segall: Possession [Drag City]Possession isn’t the usual Ty Segall record as of late.
The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks.Segall sounds looser and sunnier on these songs, harkening back to his older sound while allowing the vibrancy of Yoka’s imagination—which previously took shape solely in the vis...