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 billy woods; Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke; PinkPantheress; MIKE & Tony Seltzer; Erika de Casier; Kali Uchis; Cole Pulice; Preoccupations; Kara-Lis Coverdale; and Mclusky. 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.)
billy woods: Golliwog [Backwoodz Studioz]
Remarkably, Golliwog is billy woods’ first album without a dedicated creative partner since 2019’s Terror Management. Nevertheless, he welcomes guest rappers and producers aplenty across the new album’s 18 tracks. Among the contributors are familiar faces like Elucid, the Alchemist, El-P, Preservation, DJ Haram, Kenny Segal, and Despot, to name only a handful. As woods swings from one standout track to the next, he fleshes out a story about an “evil golliwog” that he wrote when he was nine years old and all the realities—displacement, war-torn trauma, love triangles, real-life horror stories—that it can represent.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales [Warp]
Nearly 25 years ago, Thom Yorke woke up sucking a lemon. Today, he’s “sucking like lemons all over again” on “Back in the Game,” the lead single from his and Mark Pritchard’s first collaborative album, Tall Tales. Guided by the weird whirring of the electronic polymath’s ideas and the fluid creativity of the Radiohead singer-guitarist, Tall Tales starts gloomily but soon becomes a spirited and uptempo affair, as demonstrated on the singles “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice,” “Gangsters,” and “The Spirit.”
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PinkPantheress: Fancy That [Warner]
After rising rapidly with viral TikTok snippets and marquee collaborations, PinkPantheress takes a step back from the drum’n’bass twist that defined her early work and, instead, moves toward the cushioned British pop of the noughties on new mixtape Fancy That. Don’t cry for that thudding bass; it’s still there, thumping against the walls of songs like “Tonight.” PinkPantheress just wants to incorporate a little more on these nine tracks—icy synths, vintage rave effects, slower vocal lines—with help from a long line of producers: Aksel Arvid, Count Baldor, Phil, Oscar Scheller, and the Dare. Let single “Stateside,” her favorite song from the record, usher in the new era.
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MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball II [10k]
Just over a year after releasing their first joint full-length, Pinball, New York hip-hop staples MIKE and Tony Seltzer are back with another collaborative album. On the sequel, Pinball II, the two charge through 17 songs in just over half an hour, passing the baton to friends—Earl Sweatshirt, Niontay, Sideshow, Lunchbox—along the way. More than a basket of bonus songs, Pinball II is a space for the rapper and producer to exemplify why their collaborative spirit yields such easygoing and fun results.
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Erika de Casier: Lifetime [Independent Jeep Music]
Erika de Casier decided not only to make another album barely a year after her last one, Still, but to drop it as a surprise—unless you’re one of the fans who got a limited-edition cassette tape. The downtempo Lifetime eases you into spacey trip-hop beats and sultry slow-mo songs, with de Casier’s glossy vocals spinning over it all like a ribbon in the wind.
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Kali Uchis: Sincerely, [Capitol]
Kali Uchis has been working at a rapid-fire pace. After putting out Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞ in 2020, she dropped Red Moon in Venus, in 2023 and immediately followed it with Orquídeas in 2024. Now, the Colombian American singer is already back with Sincerely,. She previewed the album with its final two songs, the brisk pop stroll “Sunshine & Rain…” and “LYSMIH.”
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Cole Pulice: Land’s End Eternal [Leaving]
Maybe it’s due to their move from Minneapolis to Oakland, California, maybe it’s the result of a three-year-long wait for their new solo album, or maybe it’s something else entirely, but Cole Pulice’s Land’s End Eternal sounds like drifting off into a long-awaited dream while on a cross-country train ride. The composer and electroacoustic saxophonist slots revelatory horn solos next to ambient waves and glacial electric guitar, building off the technique they’ve been honing for years now. On singles like the nine-minute “After the Rain,” featuring Maria BC’s vocals, or the shimmering “Fragments of a Slipstream Dream,” Pulice invites you to shut your eyes and discover what unexpected images float across your eyelids.
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Preoccupations: Ill at Ease [Born Losers]
Preoccupations have been through a few evolutions since their debut album, Viet Cong. After the breakup of their former band Women, featuring Cindy Lee, the Canadian post-punkers started a new quartet and with it came a steelier sound. On their fifth album, Ill at Ease, they mold existential anxieties into eight tracks about purpose, death, and world collapse. Though thematically dark, Ill at Ease is still light on its feet, with “Focus” and the title track guiding the way forward with rubbery bass and singer Matt Flegel’s clear voice.
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Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came [Smalltown Supersound]
Montreal composer Kara-Lis Coverdale writes music that is both contemporarily digitized and timelessly classical. On From Where You Came, her first album in eight years, she examines what it means to be both rootless and full of life, regardless of the pains or thrills that can accompany wandering. With occasional accompaniment by cellist Anne Bourne and Grammy-winning trombonist Kalia Vandever, Coverdale brings warm detachment to singles “Daze,” “Freedom,” and “Offload Flip.”
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Mclusky: The World Is Still Here and So Are We [Ipecac]
Yes, that same Mclusky are back. Over 20 years since their last album, 2004’s The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire, the reckless British post-hardcore rockers return with The World Is Still Here and So Are We. Famously explosive live, Mclusky sound just as noisy on their comeback album, beginning with “Unpopular Parts of a Pig” and lasting on through the rest of its 13-song tracklist. With merciless song titles like “Way of the Exploding Dickhead,” Mclusky are as tongue-in-cheek as ever with their lyrics and delivery. Enjoy the ride while you can.
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