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 Noname, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Gloss Up, Rob Moose, Tomu DJ, Andrew Hung, Edsel Axle, and Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci. 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.)
Noname: Sundial [self-released]
After years of anticipation, Noname has finally released her new album, Sundial. It features Jay Electronica, Eryn Allen Kane, $ilkmoney, billy woods, Stout, Common, Ayoni, and more, and Saba is among the producers. “Noname is not trying to sell herself as a revolutionary,” Alphonse Pierre writes in his review. “She’s also unafraid of biting self-reflection that leaves her own contradictions out in the open. In rap, where it’s so often about seeming indestructible, hanging yourself out to dry is a gutsy move.”
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You [Drag City]
The new album from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, was recorded in Will Oldham’s hometown of Louisville by Nick Roeder. It features Sara Louise Callaway (violin), Kendall Carter (keys), Elisabeth Fuchsia (viola/violin), Dave Howard (mandolin), Drew Miller (saxophone), and Dane Waters (vocals). The album follows 2019’s I Made a Place and Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s two collaborative albums from 2021: Superwolves with Matt Sweeney and Blind Date Party with Bill Callahan.
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Gloss Up: Shades of Gloss [Quality Control]
The follow-up to Gloss Up’s debut mixtape, Before the Gloss Up, arrives as the Memphis rapper opens for Lil Baby on the It’s Only Us Tour. The 13-track Shades of Gloss features Saucy Santana, Slimeroni, Aleza, K Carbon, Bigg Bagg Queezy, and one of the summer’s biggest new stars, Sexyy Red.
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Rob Moose: Inflorescence EP [Sony Masterworks]
Rob Moose, the violinist and yMusic co-founder, makes his solo debut with the Inflorescence EP. Guests on the five-track release include Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Sara Bareilles, and Emily King.
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Tomu DJ: Crazy Trip EP [No Bias]
Oakland-based producer Tomu DJ follows her 2021 debut album, Feminista, and its 2022 follow-up, Half Moon Bay, with the Crazy Trip EP. In addition to the title track, it includes the single “Bedroom DJ,” featuring Brooklyn rapper Peggy Getty. “The name [Crazy Trip] isn’t about drugs or anything, moreso just a reflection on the craziness of life even in its more serene moments,” Tomu DJ explained in a statement.
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Andrew Hung: Deliverance [Lex]
Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung is back with the follow-up to his 2021 album, Devastations. He wrote, produced, performed, and mixed the new album Deliverance. “I’ve never really felt part of any particular tribe, yet I know it exists because belonging is a deeply ingrained need,” Hung said in a statement. “The name of the album Deliverance alludes to this; I have finally found my tribe and I am finally delivered.”
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Edsel Axle: Variable Happiness [Worried Songs]
Edsel Axle is the recording moniker of the North Carolina singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman. Variable Happiness is an improvisational solo electric guitar collection from the UK label Worried Songs, which releases instrumental works from the “American underground.” Ryley Walker wrote the accompanying literature for the album, saying “these tunes suggest we can arrest the negative with meditation and patience.”
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Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci: Chthonic [American Dreams]
Chthonic is a long-distance collaborative album from Australia-based composer Lawrence English and U.S. sound artist Lea Bertucci. The duo met at a 2019 festival in Rio de Janeiro and became collaborators during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Their conversations, according to the announcement, focused on “moving large amounts of earth, biogeochemical cycles, and the cyclic nature of time.”
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