With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of serious new releases obtainable on streaming companies. This week’s batch contains new tasks from Father John Misty, Kim Deal, Purple Scorching Group, Bibio, Michael Kiwanuka, Tashi Dorji, Wizkid, Lifted, Rogê, Boldy James & Harry Fraud, Djrum. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing via our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana [Sub Pop]
Since rising to acclaim (and a little bit infamy) with 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear, Josh Tillman has alternately indulged and rejected his standing as indie-rock’s main provocateur. Mahashmashana, his sixth Father John Misty album, returns to the romantic symphonies and sardonic alt-rock of that breakout LP, as previewed on “Screamland,” a seven-minute epic with Low’s Alan Sparhawk on guitar, and the traditional Tillmanian monologue of “I Guess Time Simply Makes Fools of Us All.” As Anna Gaca writes in her overview, “The temper swings are wilder, the logic extra tangential; the songwriting may be the most effective it’s ever been.”
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Kim Deal: No one Loves You Extra [4AD]
