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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 releases available on streaming services.
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(All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors.When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)Beth Orton: The Ground Above [Partisan]In a brief message accompanying the announcement of her new album, Beth Orton wrote, “Linear time has no place in music.” That’s undoubtedly true of Orton’s own work, which is better than ever three decades into the English songwriter’s career.
The Ground Above, her follow-up to 2022’s Weather Alive, resists the tacit assumption that an artist’s catalogue should walk a straight line.A better word to describe the relationship between the two records might be… expansion? Diffusion? Fragmentation? Joined by collaborators old—Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Shahzad Ismaily—and new—Nick Hakim, the Smile drummer Tom Skinner—Orton knits an infinity scarf of wicker-weir folk, jazzy ambiance, and blue-eyed soul.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeChanel Beads: Your Day Will Come [Jagjaguwar]Chanel Beads might as well be the poster children for “all in good time.” The project of songwriter Shane Lavers has been one to watch in New York’s perpetually reshuffling rock underground since 2024 debut Your Day Will Come.
Their second effort manages to be both a significant step forward and a statement of real consistency.Also titled Your Day Will Come (hey, maybe it’s still coming), the LP boasts lusher arrangements—courtesy of guests More Eaze, Anastasia Coope, and ...