11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now
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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 Fontaines D.C., the Avalanches, @, 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.)Fontaines D.C.: Dopamine Chamber [XL]Fontaines D.C.
continue their evolution from underground rock insurgents to arena-baiting anthem merchants on their Romance follow-up.Lead single “Marianne” infuses sleazy synth-pop with the air of a haunted lullaby, while—in a pairing that makes more sense than it should—the Irish band unites with fellow crossover sensation Rosalía on “Where Is Gone?” The psychedelic blurring of genre boundaries plays off the titular concept, which, says Grian Chatten in press materials, describes the environment of the album itself.
“You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough Trade@: Autosmile [4AD]Titled after a Twitter meme, Autosmile by @ plays out like a series of private jokes told between friends.Those friends—Filipczak and Victoria Rose—got their start as folk-pop pranksters, but on their 4AD debut, they’ve leveled up into a brain-rotted Rawlings and Welch.
Before Autosmile, you’d never hear Rose sing a lyric as nakedly sincere as “I don’t know how I belong to you, but I do somehow.” For the first time, the band with the most un-Googleable name in showbiz sounds marginally legible.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rou...