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 and projects from Quavo; Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood; Reneé Rapp; Fiddlehead; Key!; Margaret Glaspy; Horrendous; and Arnold Dreyblatt. 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.)
Quavo: Rocket Power [Quality Control/Motown]
Migos rapper Quavo issued his first solo LP, Quavo Huncho, in 2018 and he returns now with Rocket Power. The new album includes collaborations with Quavo’s late bandmate and relative, Takeoff, who was shot and killed and last year. The album also closes with the Takeoff tribute “Greatness.”
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Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood: Reset in Dub [Domino]
British producer Adrian Sherwood helmed the new dub rework of Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s 2022 album, Reset. To further emphasize Reset’s Jamaican rocksteady influences, Sherwood worked with artists like Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, Prisoner, Alex White, Horseman, and more.
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Reneé Rapp: Snow Angel [Interscope]
Snow Angel is the debut album from Renée Rapp, known for playing Regina George in Broadway’s Mean Girls and Leighton in The Sex Lives of College Girls. Rapp worked on the album with producer Alexander 23, and Cara Delevingne directed the music video for the LP’s “Pretty Girls.” Check out Pitchfork’s recent interview “What The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Reneé Rapp Is Listening To.”
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Fiddlehead: Death Is Nothing to Us [Run for Cover]
Per Fiddlehead vocalist Pat Flynn, the Boston post-hardcore supergroup’s latest album completes a trilogy of releases (preceded by 2021’s Between the Richness and 2018’s Springtime and Blind) grappling with different stages of grief. The group—rounded out by drummer Shawn Costa, guitarists Alex Henery and Alex Dow, and bassist Nick Hinsch—again recruited Chris Teti to produce and engineer Death Is Nothing to Us.
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Key!: Marquis [Third & Hayden]
Atlanta rapper Key! worked on Marquis with producer DJ Marc B. The new project was led by the singles “You Need God” (featuring Tony Shhnow), “Crank Dat” (featuring Redd Smash), and “Hey! Intro.” Marquis is Key!’s first project since 2021’s The Alpha Jerk.
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Margaret Glaspy: Echo the Diamond [ATO]
After turning her attention to multi-layered synths on 2020’s Devotion, singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy returns to spiky, guitar-forward songs on her third LP, Echo the Diamond. She announced the album with “Act Natural” at the end of May, following it with “Memories” and “Get Back” in subsequent weeks. Glaspy has said that Echo the Diamond “is the most fluid and immediate music [she has] ever made.”
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Horrendous: Ontological Mysterium [Season of Mist]
Philadelphia death metal act Horrendous return for a new, uproarious full-length with Ontological Mysterium. It’s the first album from the ensemble in five years, following 2018’s Idol. In addition to Ontological Mysterium’s loud, serrated title track, the band previewed the album with “Cult of Shaad’oah” and “Preterition Hymn.”
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Arnold Dreyblatt: Resolve [Drag City]
Bassist, composer, and instrument builder Arnold Dreyblatt has established himself as an inventive, exploratory performer over the past 50 years. On his new album, Resolve, he reunites with the Orchestra of Excited Strings for the first time since 2002, performing with his upright bass strung with piano wire. “Resolve is dazzling proof of this Orchestra’s musical prowess as well as an astonishing technical achievement,” writes Pitchfork’s Matthew Blackwell.
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