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, EPs, and mixtapes from Tegan and Sara, Sturgill Simpson, DaBaby, the Comet Is Coming, Jonny Greenwood’s Octatonic Records, Emel Mathlouthi, and Sheff G. 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 may earn an affiliate commission.)
Tegan and Sara: Hey, I’m Just Like You [Sire]
For their ninth studio album and follow-up to 2016’s Love You to Death, twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin re-recorded songs that they wrote in high school. The duo kept almost all of the lyrics—written between the ages of 15 and 17—and took turns singing songs the other wrote. The album was created with a team composed entirely of women, from production and engineering to mastering and drum and bass tracking.
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Sturgill Simpson: SOUND & FURY [Elektra]
Sturgill Simpson’s fourth album, SOUND & FURY, is a companion to an anime film of the same name, made in collaboration with manga artist Takashi Okazaki (Afro Samurai) and filmmaker Junpei Mizusaki (Batman Ninja). The film—available to stream now on Netflix—is set to music from the album with a different segment corresponding to each of the LP’s 10 tracks.
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DaBaby: KIRK [South Coast Music Group/Interscope]
KIRK is Charlotte rapper DaBaby’s second project of 2019. KIRK, which takes its title from DaBaby’s legal last name, features Migos, Nicki Minaj, Gucci Mane, Chance the Rapper, Moneybagg Yo, Lil Baby, Stunna 4 Vegas, YK Osiris, and Kevin Gates. The album follows Baby on Baby.
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The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife [Impulse!]
The Comet Is Coming—the London-based jazz trio of Danalogue (synthesizers), Betamax (drums), and King Shabaka (saxophone)—released their sophomore album Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery earlier this year. Now, they’ve shared its companion piece, a six-song mini-album intended to be experienced together with the full-length.
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Daniel Pioro: Octatonic Volume 1 EP [Octatonic]
Jonny Greenwood / Oliver Coates: Octatonic Volume 2 EP [Octatonic]
Octatonic Records is the new classical music label from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. The label’s first EP captures violinist Daniel Pioro’s performance of J.S. Bach’s famed Partita No. 2 in D minor. (Pioro recently performed at the premiere of Greenwood’s Horror vacui.) The second EP features cellist and frequent Radiohead collaborator Oliver Coates playing Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon’s “Industry,” as well as Greenwood performing his own “Water.”
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Emel Mathlouthi: Everywhere We Looked Was Burning [Partisan]
Emil Mathlouthi’s third LP Everywhere We Looked Was Burning has its origins in Woodstock, New York, where she rented a house to “write about nature as well as the beauty and struggle of these times.” The follow-up to 2017’s Ensen was recorded in the Catskill Mountains, London, and France. It was co-produced by Steve Moore and Ryan Seaton, and was mixed by Chris Tabron and Marta Salogni.
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Sheff G: The Unluccy Luccy Kid [EMPIRE]
The Unluccy Luccy Kid is the debut mixtape from 20-year-old Brooklyn rapper Sheff G. The 14-track tape features guest spots from Sacramento’s Mozzy and frequent collaborator Sleepy Hallow. Check out the mixtape’s “Tonight” in The Ones, and read “Sheff G Made Drill the Sound of Brooklyn” on Levels.
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