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 EPs from Show Me the Body, Westside Gunn, Junior Boys, Anja Lauvdal, Molly Joyce, Babehoven, Sobs, Worm, and Bandmanrill. 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.)
Show Me the Body: Trouble the Water [Loma Vista]
New York hardcore group Show Me the Body have returned with their follow-up to 2019’s Dog Whistle and last year’s Survive EP. Trouble the Water was recorded at Corpus studios in Long Island City and produced with Arthur Rizk. The band’s current lineup includes original members Julian Cashwan Pratt and Harlan Steed, with the addition of drummer Jackie McDermott. Show Me the Body announced the new LP with the release of “We Came to Play.” The trio is on tour.
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Westside Gunn: 10 [Griselda]
Westside Gunn’s new album, 10, features contributions from A$AP Rocky, Run the Jewels, Black Star, Busta Rhymes, the Alchemist, RZA, DJ Drama, Stove God Cooks, Conductor Williams, Griselda regulars Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine, Armani Caesar, and Rome Streetz, and more. The album also features Goo Goo Dolls co-founder and bassist Robby Takac, who, like Gunn, is a native Buffalonian. 10 follows July’s Peace “Fly” God.
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Junior Boys: Waiting Game [City Slang]
Producers Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus began working on their follow-up to 2016’s Big Black Coat in Hamilton, Ontario before needing to take a break due to the pandemic. The result is Waiting Game, which “feels of a piece with what Greenspan and Didemus have done before,” Daniel Bromfield writes in his Pitchfork review. Check out the new video for “Samba on Sama.”
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Anja Lauvdal: From a Story Now Lost [Smalltown Supersound]
For her debut solo record, From a Story Now Lost, the Norwegian musician Anja Lauvdal teamed up with producer Laurel Halo. The final result, according to Lauvdal, is “like seeing different pieces of time around in the universe.” The 19th century Norwegian classical pianist Agathe Backer Grøndahl served as an inspiration, and she is acknowledged on the track “Fantasie for Agathe Backer Grøndahl.”
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Molly Joyce: Perspective [New Amsterdam]
Molly Joyce’s latest multidisciplinary work, Perspective, was inspired by a question once posed to her by Judith Heumann: The disability activist asked Joyce why she referred to her left hand, which was impaired in a childhood accident, as “weak.” “This question struck me personally and almost politically, as it became clear that I was categorizing my disability within narrow definitions of what weakness can and should be,” Joyce explained. Throughout Perspective, Joyce poses questions about the disabled experience to 47 interviewees from her disabled community and places the responses atop her voice and vintage toy organ. The work is intended to be heard alongside open-captioned videos in an effort to emphasize multisensory accessibility.
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Babehoven: Light Moving Time [Double Double Whammy]
The cover of Babehoven’s Light Moving Time features a painting of the band’s Maya Bon, headless and in motion. “This whole album and the whole picture is frozen and moving all at once, which is kind of my experience of trauma,” Bon remarked. The Hudson, New York–based band explores the idea further on the follow-up to the Sunk EP.
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Sobs: Air Guitar [Topshelf]
Celine Autumn, Jared Lim, and Raphael Ong comprise the Singapore indie-pop band Sobs. Their new album, Air Guitar, is the follow-up to the 2018’s Telltale Signs. Read Pitchfork’s review of the title song.
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Worm: Bluenothing EP [20 Buck Spin]
The Florida black metal collective Worm have returned with a new EP called Bluenothing. The collection follows the 2021 album Foreverglade and features two songs that were recorded during that album’s sessions, “Bluenothing” and “Centuries of Oooze II.”
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Bandmanrill: Club Godfather [Warner]
Club Godfather is the debut mixtape from Newark, New Jersey rapper Bandmanrill. The 13-track release includes guest appearances from NLE Choppa, Sha Ek, and others. Check out the review of the single “Real Hips” and read more about Bandmanrill in the feature “Delirious Tempos, Viral Dances, and Hometown Pride—Welcome to the Next Generation of Club Rap.”
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