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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 drops available on streaming services.
This week’s batch includes new albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Kelsey Lu, YHWH Nailgun, Horse Lords, and more.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.)Olivia Rodrigo: You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love [Geffen]Olivia Rodrigo made a name for herself as the pop star embracing ballads and bubblegrunge influences in equal doses.
You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love, her third album, proves she’s much more than that.The follow-up to 2024’s Guts is brash and bold, flinging heartbreak around until it becomes an art medium set to ’80s new wave, string-swollen hooks, and aughts Britpop.
While “Drop Dead” and “The Cure” set the album’s tone, it’s the duet “What’s Wrong With Me” with Robert Smith of the Cure that gives it an extra jolt.After debuting it live with Rodrigo at Primavera, Smith gushed about how much he admires her: “She is genuinely fantastic as a songwriter and as a singer and performer.”Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicBuy at Rough TradeKelsey Lu: So Help Me God [Dirty Hit]Although multi-hyphenate Kelsey Lu might seem adept at handling her music with meticulous care, her latest record, So Help Me God, is an ode to not having everything together.
“This isn’t really a healing album,” the Los Angeles-based singer and cellist said in a statement.“It’s more of a reckoning.
It’s about facing the parts of myself I tried to move past, and realising they were still shaping everything.” Enlisting Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman as co-produce...