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 Jamie xx, Future, Nubya Garcia, Bright Eyes, the Alchemist, Regional Justice Center, and Patrick Shiroishi. 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.)
Jamie xx: In Waves [Young]
It’s been nearly a decade since Jamie xx went solo and dropped In Colour. Now, the DJ and producer is finally releasing his sophomore solo album, In Waves. Collaborating with the likes of Robyn, Panda Bear, xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim, Kelsey Lu, and the Avalanches, Jamie xx set out to make a record that is “fun, joyful, and introspective all at once,” as he put it in the album announcement.
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Future: Mixtape Pluto [Epic]
Though Future has released multiple collaborations with Metro Boomin this year, Mixtape Pluto is his first solo project since 2022’s I Never Liked You. The Atlanta rapper teased the mixtape back in May, writing on X: “Fuck yo album Shit ain’t slappin like my MIXTAPE,” speaking in the parlance of a man who’s been hurling insults at Drake as of late—and getting others to join in.
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Nubya Garcia: Odyssey [Concord Jazz]
Nubya Garcia draws upon her jazz background for her second album, Odyssey, but she also incorporates elements of dub, broken beat, classical, and R&B. The London-born saxophonist, bandleader, and composer enlisted contributors like Georgia Anne Muldrow, Esperanza Spalding, and Richie Seivwright for the project. Garcia’s acclaimed debut, Source, came out in 2020.
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Bright Eyes: Five Dice, All Threes [Dead Oceans]
Five Dice, All Threes is the first Bright Eyes album since their 2020 comeback LP Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. The 13-song record was announced in June with the single “Bells and Whistles,” which Conor Oberst wrote about the little things in life “that can seem insignificant or frivolous or temporary at the time, but eventually end up forming your destiny.” Bright Eyes produced the LP, and collaborated with Cat Power, the National’s Matt Berninger, and the So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink on a handful of songs. A new music video for “All Threes” accompanies the album’s release.
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The Alchemist: The Genuine Articulate [ALC]
The Alchemist is back with his third album of the year; The Genuine Articulate follows Black & Whites, made with Big Hit and Hit-Boy, as well as Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, which he made alongside rapper and producer Oh No. The new album includes lead single “Ferraris in the Rain,” featuring Schoolboy Q, and further collaborations with Action Bronson, Big Body Bes, Conway the Machine, Larry June, and Mobb Deep’s Havoc.
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Regional Justice Center: Freedom Sweet Freedom [Closed Casket Activities]
In 2016, Militarie Gun frontman Ian Shelton formed powerviolence band Regional Justice Center as a way to cope with his younger brother Max’s incarceration. Max Shelton contributed to the group’s first two albums—2018’s World of Inconvenience and 2021’s Crime and Punishment—via recorded phone calls from prison, but the band’s new LP, Freedom, Sweet Freedom, is the first project to feature in-person vocals from Max, who was released from custody in 2022. The revamped lineup also includes Taylor Young of Twitching Tongues and Nails.
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Patrick Shiroishi: Glass House [Otherly Love]
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese American composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. The prolific artist has already shared a handful of projects this year, including two collaborative records with drummer Max Jaffe and Darkside’s Dave Harrington, as well as At Sea, a joint release with Magnetic Vines. The minimal and tactile Glass House is Shiroishi’s soundtrack for Mamie Green’s dance piece of the same name, put on by Volta Collective. Song titles for the album were taken from the Glass House script, penned by Sammy Loren and Zoey Greenwald.
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