With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be laborious to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork provides a run-down of serious new releases accessible on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains new albums from Lil Uzi Vert, Joanna Sternberg, Lucinda Williams, Sweeping Guarantees, Tainy, Veeze, Chester Watson, and Hayden Pedigo. 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 our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape [Generation Now/Atlantic]
Lil Uzi Vert introduced Pink Tape, their official follow-up to 2020’s Eternal Atake, with a samurai-themed trailer that launched them on a quest to a haunted temple, with a soundtrack of cascading vocals woven into antic beats and hyperactive metallic riffs. Friends on Pink Tape embody Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Babymetal, Convey Me the Horizon, and Don Toliver. The 26-track album, preceded by “Just Wanna Rock,” is Lil Uzi Vert’s first since pleading no contest final yr to fees of assaulting their ex-girlfriend and threatening her with a firearm.
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Joanna Sternberg: I’ve Bought Me [Fat Possum]
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