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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 Twisted Teens, Bassvictim, Shygirl, 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.)Twisted Teens: The Holy Cross Tigers [Sub Pop]Focusing on Twisted Teens’ relentless output in 2026 misses the point.
Instead, track the fluidity of their strut through garage rock, country, and traditional folk; on The Holy Cross Tigers, that effortless sway of hypnotic steel guitar over shuffling drums presents like an old jukebox standard that you’re hearing for the first time.Place your trust in that timelessness.
Caspian Hollywell and RJ Santos steer their New Orleans band like a pontoon boat: balanced, unadorned, and old-school in that it reinforces only the bare-bones necessities required for a good time.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeBassvictim: Peace + War [Warner]Bassvictim’s electroclash brings the lopsided, derelict genre to a new audience with all of the mess and less of the sex.Vocalist Maria Manow flips between feeling happy and sad, then fat and skinny, on “Happysad,” while she admits to feeling shit when she wakes up over the crushed-up industrial beats of “Wake Up.” The album’s production scuttles from laptop twee and bloghouse to freewheeling experimentations like “No.
33 piano,” which wobbles through febrile piano loops.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicShygirl: Swallow! [Because]There’s a reason that time-honored rave aphorism “PLUR�...