With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be laborious to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases obtainable on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Charli XCX, Feng, Jill Scott, August Ponthier, and extra. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday publication to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing by way of our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Charli XCX: Wuthering Heights [Atlantic]
When director Emerald Fennell wanted to rent a musician to attain her Wuthering Heights adaptation, just one particular person got here to thoughts: Charli XCX. Not solely did the British pop star settle for the supply, however she used her soundtrack to seize love in all of its grandiose, moody, elusive methods. As she described the soundtrack on her Substack, it’s a “dive into persona, right into a world that felt undeniably uncooked, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and stuffed with precise actual sentences, punctuation and grammar.”
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Feng: Weekend Rockstar [Regularisperfect]
