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 gives a run-down of serious new releases out there on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Fragrance Genius, Destroyer, Lucy Dacus, Aya, YT, Eiko Ishibashi, Deafheaven, Nice Grandpa, Ohyung, and Sandwell District. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing via our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Fragrance Genius: Glory [Matador]
Following the cryptic, nonlinear compositions of 2022’s Ugly Season, Mike Hadreas returns to a extra standard singer-songwriter mode on his seventh studio album as Fragrance Genius. The blistering one-two punch of lead single “It’s a Mirror” and the Aldous Harding duet “No Entrance Tooth” seems to be a little bit of a misdirect, as Glory can be Hadreas’ quietest, most reserved file in over a decade. That mentioned, he and co-producer Blake Mills nonetheless muster up moments of elegant magnificence prefer it’s simply one other Tuesday; see the tender devotional “Me & Angel,” a maybe-tribute to Celine Dion, and “In a Row,” the rollicking, Eleventh-hour showstopper that would even unseat “Queen” as his concert-closer of alternative.
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Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie [Merge]
