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 projects from Skrillex; Black Country, New Road; DJ Koze; Jane Remover; Florist; duendita; the Waterboys; Barker; Craig Finn; and Chy Cartier. 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.)
Skrillex: F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 [OWSLA/Atlantic]
The Skrillex rehabilitation project continues on F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3, a follow-up to the dual sunrise of his 2023 albums, Quest for Fire and Don’t Get Too Close. The onetime EDM maestro explores an ever-expanding sound palette on the new LP, enlisting the likes of Sigur Rós’ Jónsi, 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady, Boys Noize, and Varg2TM to burrow into the dance underground and further afield.
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Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong [Ninja Tune]
After the sudden departure of frontman and primary songwriting force Isaac Wood—just days before the release of their 2022 album, Ants From Up There—Black Country, New Road’s remaining six members were left to write all-new material for their fast approaching tour dates. With vocal duties now split between bassist Tyler Hyde, May Kershaw, and Georgia Ellery, Forever Howlong is the British art rockers’ proper reintroduction, led by a run of singles—“Besties,” “Happy Birthday,” and “For the Cold Country”—that are far sprightlier, but just as complex as the group's previous work. As Ellery succinctly put it to Ian Cohen, “It’s not a guy’s breakup album, that’s for sure.”
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DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us [Pampa]
DJ Koze reopens his magic box of electronic dreamscapes on Music Can Hear Us, his follow-up to 2018 classic Knock Knock. The German producer traverses house, Afrobeats, and pop on an album that is, said Walden Green in Pitchfork’s review, “a giddy collision of good taste and what John Waters called ‘good bad taste,’ brought into harmonious coexistence by an artist whose greatest asset is his inextinguishable supply of curiosity and childlike wonder.”
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Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz [DeadAir]
Jane Remover dropped Revengeseekerz, their explosive follow-up to 2023’s Census Designated, before it ever got a proper release date—fitting for an album that bursts out the gate with opener “Twice Removed” and doesn’t let up until the explosion of closer “JRJRJR.” As Sam Goldner wrote in his review of the song, “‘JRJRJR’ operates in a world where Sisso and Klein teamed up to co-produce A Great Chaos. It’s simultaneously their most maximalist yet most direct music yet.” The same could be said of the record as a whole, on which Danny Brown also guests.
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Florist: Jellywish [Double Double Whammy]
Jellywish is the fifth studio album from New York indie-folk quartet Florist. Bandleader Emily Sprague explained in a press release that Jellywish presents a world where magic is a daily possibility. The LP includes the singles “Have Heaven,” “This Was a Gift,” “Gloom Designs,” “Moon, Sea, Devil,” and the quasi-title track “Jellyfish.” Jellywish follows Florist’s 2022 self-titled record.
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duendita: A Strong Desire to Survive [10k]
A Strong Desire to Survive, the latest from New York artist duendita, partially emerged from jam sessions in Berlin with collaborators Noah Becker and Anton Remy. “I’d write on their beats or at the piano, and I couldn’t stop writing about the pain,” duendita explained. “All these bangers came out about how badly I wanted to live and overcome it all.” Ahead of the album, duendita shared lead single “Baby Teeth,” which concludes with a choir of nine vocalists the artist recorded in their bedroom.
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The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper [Sun]
The Waterboys enlisted a hearty cast of contributors for their new concept album, Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, which, per its title, was inspired by the legendary late actor. Fiona Apple features on one song, a ballad titled “Letter From an Unknown Girlfriend,” while Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Taylor Goldsmith, and others appear throughout the album’s whopping 25-song tracklist. Speaking of Dennis Hopper in press materials, the Waterboys’ leader Mike Scott said: “The arc of his life was the story of our times.”
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Barker: Stochastic Drift [Smalltown Supersound]
Barker beckoned his second album, the beguiling Stochastic Drift, out of a period of “significant and unpredictable events,” including the pandemic that left the British producer “unemployed and stuck at home for an indefinite amount of time,” he has said. A principle of uncertainty guides these songs through a network of playful melodies and nervous ambient explorations, producing a record as suited to a daydream as a dancefloor.
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Craig Finn: Always Been [Tamarac]
The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn returns with a solo album produced by the War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel. The band also play on Always Been, while Kathleen Edwards and Sam Fender contribute vocals. “I believe this to be the most narrative record I have made,” Finn said of Always Been in press materials. “Most songs concern a protagonist who pursued a career as a clergyman despite a lack of faith. The record tells the story of his rise and fall and redemption.” Finn shared the singles “People of Substance” and “Bethany” ahead of the follow-up to A Legacy of Rentals.
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Chy Cartier: No Bring Ins [self-released]
Chy Cartier’s debut mixtape, No Bring Ins, promises a breakout moment for the UK MC described, by Pitchfork’s Alphonse Pierre, as “the coolest rapper in the room” in her recent cypher with several UK drill luminaries. She led into the record with the one-two punch of “Different Kettle” and “Not the One,” two darkly intoxicating showcases of her sinister charisma.
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