With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork gives a run-down of great new releases obtainable on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Queens of the Stone Age, Killer Mike, Sigur Rós, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pat Metheny, Asake, Fust, Bonny Doon, and Bettye LaVette. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Queens of the Stone Age: In Occasions New Roman… [Matador]
For Joshua Homme, the creation of Queens of the Stone Age’s new album, In Times New Roman…, got here throughout a custody dispute, a cancer diagnosis, and the deaths of friends. “I believe that is the primary time I didn’t wish to make a report, however I used to be coping with lots of stuff in my private life,” he said in an interview. “We recorded lots of stuff. I believe I used to be doing it as a result of after I’m in hassle, that is what I do. That is the place I am going to get proper.” The follow-up to 2017’s Villains contains the singles “Emotion Sickness,” “Paper Machete,” and “Carnavoyeur.”
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Killer Mike: Michael [Loma Vista]
