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 SZA; Lazer Dim 700; Quinn; Boldy James & WhoTheHellIsCarlo; Vic Spencer; and Mozzy & Kalan.FrFr. 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.)
SZA: SOS Deluxe: Lana [TDE/RCA]
At long last: Lana has arrived. SZA’s SOS Deluxe record stacks on an additional 15 songs to the original tracklist, and clocks in at nearly two hours. The album features previously-shared single “Saturn” as well as the brand new cut “Drive,” which arrived with a Ben Stiller-starring video hours before Lana dropped. The album also includes a new Kendrick Lamar collaboration titled “30 for 30.” SZA and Kendrick will hit the road together for their Grand National Tour next year.
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Lazer Dim 700: Keepin It Cloudy [self-released]
Pairing blown-out beats with lackadaisical bars, Georgia rapper Lazer Dim 700 became one of the year’s biggest viral rap stories. His new project, Keepin It Cloudy, is typically lo-fi and low-slung, his conversational, gag-filled flow skittering across his BandLab beats like collaged snippets of phone calls picked up by a Cold War–era bug.
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Quinn: Stars Fell on Trench [self-released]
Quinn continues to collage ticklish hyperpop, breakneck digicore, and introspective bedroom-rap on Stars Fell on Trench. Released with little fanfare on a Sunday, the latest addition to her bewildering catalog smothers sung and rapped verses in impish, anarchic production, a barrage of samples, counter-harmonies, displaced genre tropes, and hectic sound effects swarming around earworms that cling to the songs’ foundations like cockroaches weathering a nuclear blast.
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Boldy James & WhoTheHellIsCarlo: Hidden in Plain Sight [Westside Bike Club]
Boldy James links up with King of the Hill–referencing producer WhoTheHellIsCarlo for their first collaborative project. The record swiftly follows Boldy James’ latest stellar full-length, The Bricktionary, the rapper inviting Conway the Machine, Styles P, King Hendricks, and Zelooperz to join him across seven tracks.
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Vic Spencer: Being the Bigger Person Sucks [Old Fart Luggage]
Vic Spencer delivers another suite of witty, dextrous, tongue-twisting bars over vintage beats with Being the Bigger Person Sucks, the prolific Chicago rapper’s fourth album of the year. The record, delivered direct to fans last week before its full release, features Johnny Storm, the Legendary Traxster, Buk of Psychodrama, and more—as well as a song called “Lupe Fiasco’s Weed Stash.”
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Mozzy & Kalan.FrFr: Lucky Her [Mozzy]
Sacramento meets Los Angeles on Mozzy and Kalan.FrFr’s new collaboration, Lucky Her. The two had showcased their chemistry on “Trenches,” “No Love,” and “Whole 100,” and they now get to stretch out across 10 songs. Guests include New Orleans’ Rob49, Detroit’s Skilla Baby, and Baltimore’s Shordie Shordie.
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This article was originally published on Friday, December 20 at 1:13 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on December 20 at 4:16 p.m. Eastern.
