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, mixtapes, and EPs from Perfume Genius, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, ZULI, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Central Cee, and Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter. 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.)
Perfume Genius: IMMEDIATELY Remixes [Matador]
Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas recruited several friends for a full complement of remixes from last spring’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately. His collaborators include Jenny Hval (“Leave”), A.G. Cook (“Describe”), Actress (“One More Try”), Jim-E Stack (“Without You”), and Initial Talk (“On the Floor”). The video for Boy Harsher’s remix of “Your Body Changes Everything” was inspired by Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist and David Cronenberg’s Videodrome.
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Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: Notes With Attachments [New Deal/Impulse!]
Following last year’s Mutable Set, Blake Mills has teamed up with bassist Pino Palladino on Notes With Attachments, a project they’ve had in the works for nearly three years. They shared “Just Wrong” and “Ekuté” from the record ahead of its release, plus live videos of “Off the Cuff,” “Djurkel,” and “Just Wrong.” Working with drummer Chris Dave, keyboardist Larry Goldings, and a trio of sax players (Marcus Strickland, Sam Gendel, and Jacques Schwartz-Bart), they developed the project from concepts Palladino had sent to Mills. “[Because of] Blake’s response to the ideas, it dawned on both of us that it would be a collaborative record,” Palladino explained.
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ZULI: All Caps EP [UIQ]
All Caps is the fourth EP from the Cairo-based electronic producer ZULI. After having his gear stolen and losing a year’s worth of work following the release of his full-length album Terminal in late 2018, the producer started from scratch for the six tracks that appear on All Caps.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: Theory of Ice [You’ve Changed]
Theory of Ice is the third album from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, following 2016’s f(l)ight. A member of Canada’s Indigenous Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg community, Simpson has spent her life studying, teaching, and exploring its history. Theory of Ice brings Simpson’s poetry together with arrangements of acoustic guitar, piano, bass, and drums.
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Central Cee: Wild West [self-released]
West London rapper Central Cee makes his debut with the 14-song mixtape Wild West. Read about the tape’s “Pinging (6 Figures)” in the Ones.
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Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter: Anticipation [American Dreams]
Anticipation is an album of guitar duets by Chicago’s Eli Winter and Houston’s Cameron Knowler. The bulk of the album was recorded in Houston and features multiple improvisations and reinterpretations of folk standards like “Cumberland Gap.”
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