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. This week’s batch includes new albums from Pusha T, Fontaines D.C., Spiritualized, Undeath, Haru Nemuri, Redveil, My Idea, Joshua Hedley, and Kathryn Joseph. 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.)
Pusha T: It’s Almost Dry [G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam]
King Push is back with his first full-length since 2018’s Daytona. The 12-track It’s Almost Dry includes Pusha T’s February single “Diet Coke,” which was co-produced by Kanye West and 88-Keys, as well as his Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams collaboration “Neck & Wrist,” and “Hear Me Clearly,” his joint cut with Nigo. Pusha T also enlisted Lil Uzi Vert, Don Toliver, Labrinth, and his brother and former Clipse partner No Malice for the album. Kid Cudi features on the track “Rock N Roll”—which apparently marks Cudi’s last song with his former pal Kanye West.
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Fontaines D.C.: Skinty Fia [Partisan]
Skinty Fia is the third LP from Dublin post-punks Fontaines D.C. The new album follows their Grammy-nominated 2020 full-length A Hero’s Death and includes the singles “I Love You,” “Jackie Down the Line,” “Skinty Fia,” and “Roman Holiday.”
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Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful [Fat Possum]
In 2018, Spiritualized suggested that And Nothing Hurt would be their last album. Now, they’re back with the new Everything Was Beautiful. The project’s title completes an often cited selection from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five: “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” Spiritualized released “Always Together With You” as the project’s first single last year, following it with “Crazy” and “The Mainline Song.”
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Undeath: It’s Time…To Rise From the Grave [Prosthetic]
It’s Time…To Rise From the Grave is the sophomore LP from Rochester, New York metal band Undeath. The new album follows their 2020 debut Lesions of a Different Kind and includes pummeling tracks like “Head Splattered in Seven Ways” and “Human Chandelier.” Early this year, the group shared lead single “Rise From the Grave” along with a gruesome music video directed and edited by Errick Easterday. Read more about the band in “Undeath Are Bringing Ghoulish Fun Back to Death Metal” on the Pitch.
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Haru Nemuri: Shunka Ryougen [To3s]
Shunka Ryougen is the latest LP from Japanese poet and pop star Haru Nemuri. The massive, 21-track album follows Nemuri’s 2018 debut Haru to Shura and includes the vibrant, kaleidoscopic single “Ikiru.” “I wrote this song just to sing about the beauty of being,” Nemuri said of the song in press materials. She added that the album was inspired by “modern urban innocence, constraints and homogeneity, which therefore created a feel of tension and compactness.”
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Redveil: Learn 2 Swim [self-released]
Teenage rapper Redveil has been making music since he was a pre-teen, cranking out beats on FL Studio from his Prince George’s County, Maryland bedroom. He issued his breakout album Niagara in 2020, and, now, he’s back with his new, self-produced full-length Learn 2 Swim. The album includes features from Sam Truth, Ovrkast., Fly Anakin, Da Ways, and others. Read about Redveil’s Learn 2 Swim single “Diving Board” in the Ones.
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My Idea: Cry Mfer [Hardly Art]
Last year, Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg and Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos joined forces as indie pop duo My Idea. Following the release of their five-song EP That’s My Idea, they’ve issued their debut LP Cry Mfer. The 13-track record represents Konigsberg and Amos’ “collective breaking point,” as the duo put it in a press release. Read Pitchfork’s track review of the LP’s “Breathe You.”
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Joshua Hedley: Neon Blue [New West]
Joshua Hedley’s rich, smooth croon shines like an old, polished bar top top on Neon Blue. It’s the second full-length from the Florida-born singer-songwriter, following his 2018 debut Mr. Jukebox. Hedley melds top-shelf country sounds from across eras with contemporary production that recalls the genre’s grand slams of the 1990s. He shared “River in the Rain,” “Broke Again,” and the title track from Neon Blue ahead of its arrival.
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Kathryn Joseph: For You Who Are the Wronged [Rock Action]
Scottish singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph co-produced her third album, For You Who Are the Wronged, alongside Lomond Campbell. They laid down the LP in the Lengths Studio—an old converted schoolhouse in Fort William, Scotland. Joseph released the tender single “The Burning of Us All” earlier this month, along with a Harry Clark–directed visual starring dancer Jessie Roberts-Smith.
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