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 projects from Childish Gambino, Los Campesinos!, Lava La Rue, Denzel Curry, Total Blue, JT, Blk Odyssy, and Gum & Ambrose Kenny-Smith. 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.)
Childish Gambino: Bando Stone and the New World [RCA]
It’s the end of Childish Gambino as we know him. For years, Donald Glover has been saying he’d put the moniker, famously culled from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator, to rest, and now it’s finally happening as the rapper and singer releases the new album Bando Stone and the New World. “It really was just like, ‘Oh, it’s done,’” Glover recently told Reggie Ugwu for The New York Times. “It’s not fulfilling. And I just felt like I didn’t need to build in this way anymore.” Joining Glover on the Gambino finale are Jorja Smith and Amaarae (on the single “In the Night”), Yeat, Chlöe, producers Ludwig Göransson, Michael Uzowuru, and Max Martin, and more.
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Los Campesinos!: All Hell [Heart Swells]
