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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 from Floating Points, Nilüfer Yanya, Julie, Porches, Wendy Eisenberg, Phiik & Lungs, Allegra Krieger, Dame Area, Nídia & Valentina, and Mermaid Chunky. 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.)
Floating Points: Cascade [Ninja Tune]
Sam Shepherd’s first solo Floating Points album since 2019 reasserts the British producer and jazz composer at the helm of the dancefloor, splaying ornate melodies over twitchy rhythms as likely to induce stupefied wonder as full-body spasms. The follow-up to Crush arrives three years after Promises, Shepherd’s collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and London Contemporary Orchestra, which was the late, storied saxophonist’s final major work. Shepherd led into Cascade with the tanked-up Eurodisco heater “Birth4000.”
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Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor [Ninja Tune]
For her third album, Nilüfer Yanya squirreled away with creative partner Will Archer into an indie-rock netherworld, picking out new gewgaws from the same trove of low-key soul and hip-hop as predecessor Painless. The result is their most intense album, as she put it in press materials, made without letting “anyone else into the bubble.” My Method Actor scatters luminous beads of sound design into a writhing body of hooks and vocal lines—sometimes murmured, others chanted, all interspersed with that trademark Yanya flourish that sounds like a sigh rising to a yelp.
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Julie: My Anti-Aircraft Friend [Atlantic]
Fresh from tour dates with Faye Webster and Alex G, Julie make their full-length debut with My Anti-Aircraft Friend. The Los Angeles band and art collective synthesizes keening grunge, disembodied shoegaze, and nervous post-hardcore on singles like “Clairbourne Practice,” of which the band said in press materials, “It’s two voices conflicting and crashing with each other, unable to understand each other.”
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Porches: Shirt [Domino]
Aaron Maine’s sixth album as Porches probes teen dreams and adult realities in songs that, in his timeworn fashion, seem determined to erase the distinction between singer-songwriter finesse and juvenile pop-punk. On singles like the raucously Auto-Tuned “Crying at the End,” Shirt amps up that trademark sound, colliding grungy catharsis with ruminative balladry.
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Wendy Eisenberg: Viewfinder [American Dreams]
If the thought of Phil Elverum performing in a Lynchian jazz club doesn’t appeal to you, don’t worry: There are plenty more dimensions to Wendy Eisenberg’s eerily intoxicating new album, Viewfinder. The philosophical questions posed by some of Eisenberg’s lyrics, delivered in tones of melodic query, find a perfect foil in her robust free jazz compositions, which incorporate rushing drums, tense instrumental meanders, classical swells, and the odd hook that might have teleported in from an indie-rock song. Few records so thoroughly circumnavigate the breadth of outré music while inviting casual listens to pay repeat visits.
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Phiik & Lungs: Carrot Season [POW]
Carrot Season presents a guns-blazing, nerve-rattling showcase from Tase Grip duo Phiik & Lungs. Hailing from the Company Flow school of post-apocalyptic rap deconstruction, the New Yorkers smash together surrealism and polemic in songs whose harmonious soul samples belie an inescapable sense of dread. Olasegun produced the record, whose guests include YL, Akai Solo, Wavy Bagels, and Homeboy Sandman.
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Allegra Krieger: Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine [Double Double Whammy]
Allegra Krieger’s second album, Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, lays out episodes of everyday minutiae in songs so packed with vivid, witty, philosophical detail that they threaten to overwhelm their delicate folk structures. Her ease with melody and the featherlight articulation of heavy emotions position Krieger among the most disarming, hypnotizing singer-songwriters to emerge in recent years.
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Dame Area: Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area [Humo Internacional]
Dame Area is the industrial synth-punk duo of Silvia Konstance and Viktor Lux Crux. Based in Barcelona, and descending from both Catalan and Italian roots, the duo stumbles into an anarchic industrial wilderness on Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area, a departure from its more melodic predecessor that nonetheless promises a nightmarishly good time. “One of our biggest influences is doing what our influences”—like Suicide and Big Black—“wouldn’t do,” the musicians said in press materials. “Some songs on the album are based on flamenco rhythms, others influenced by ’60s experimental pop, heavy metal, or contemporary electronic music.”
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Nídia & Valentina: Estradas [Latency]
Estradas unites Príncipe mainstay Nídia with the chameleonic multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti, whose prior collaborators range from Sampha to Nicolas Jaar to Jandek. Produced by Tom Halstead, of the apocalyptic post-dubstep outfits Raime and Moin, the new album is at once gloomy and tropical, entwining drums, marimbas, and diffuse synth melody in a hothouse of sweltering dance energy.
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Mermaid Chunky: Slif Slaf Slof [DFA]
Mermaid Chunky spent years orbiting England’s underground jazz and experimental scenes before ending up on DFA Records, after LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy heard their song “Friends” playing outside a Brooklyn cafe. Formed between Gloucestershire and London, the duo presents a suite of synth-pop odysseys, woodwind fantasias, and ceremonial folk jigs situated midway between a sleazy club dancefloor and Stone Henge.
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