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 Tunde Adebimpe; Julien Baker & Torres; Hieroglyphic Being; Juana Rozas; Davido; Mozzy; Superheaven; and Lucy Railton. 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.)
Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz [Sub Pop]
Two decades after electrifying the New York scene with indie-rock supremos TV on the Radio, Tunde Adebimpe has signed to Sub Pop for his debut solo album. His bandmates Jaleel Bunton and Jahphet Landis join him for cameos on Thee Black Boltz, contributing to a combustible synthpop backdrop that frames Adebimpe’s allegorical yarns and missives surveying a world falling to violent authoritarianism. The title, he added, would make “a good name for a cool metal band. And I think that most people would describe me as akin to a very cool metal band.”
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Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way [Matador]
Send a Prayer My Way is the product of Julien Baker and Torres’ decision, some nine years back, to join forces for a country album. The success of their 2024 hit “Sugar in the Tank” helped make it a reality: Send a Prayer My Way reimagines the two singer-songwriters as rambling bards in the outlaw tradition, bundling introspection and sardonic observation into a satchel of hummable tunes founded on their shared childhood love of the genre.
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Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People [Smalltown Supersound]
Jamal Moss, the virtuoso of Chicago house abstractionism known as Hieroglyphic Being, has been “partying since 1984,” he said in press materials. But, these days, something has changed: “Everybody’s angry!” Dance Music 4 Bad People is Moss’ attempt to reassert house music as a site of radical acceptance and escapism, albeit without the shallow positive vibes of contemporary dance populists. At times brutal and always volatile, the album functions as a sort of electro-shock therapy applied from the shoulders down, layering hard beats, ambient whorls, and nervous acid ticks to trigger a state of full-body rapture.
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Juana Rozas: Tanya [Sony Music Argentina]
Juana Rozas swaps bubbly bedroom-pop for hell-raising rave catharsis on Tanya, the Buenos Aires pop singer’s follow-up to Vladi. Loosely themed around the escapades of the titular protagonist, the album is “a clubby tribute to the chameleonic sounds of the Latin rave underground,” as Maria Eberhart put it in Pitchfork’s review, but one that doubles as a reflection on romantic misadventure.
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Davido: 5ive [RCA]
Nigerian Afrobeats maestro Davido continues his global ascent with 5ive, swaggering between reggaeton, dancehall, and R&B with guests including Victoria Monét, Shenseea, and YG Marley, as well as a reunion with “Unavailable” collaborator Musa Keys. “It’s a statement of where I stand, five albums in,” Davido said of the record in press materials. “Different sounds, different cultures, but one vibe!”
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Mozzy: Intrusive Thoughts [Mozzy]
On Intrusive Thoughts, the pensive follow-up to last year’s Children of the Slums, Mozzy once again reflects on the mental toll of living within cycles of violence, revenge, and grief. The Sacramento rapper collects singles including “10 Percent,” “Blood Diamonds” (featuring GNX standout Peysoh), “Under Oath,” and the Lil Poppa–assisted “Nightmares” on the album.
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Superheaven: Superheaven [Blue Grape Music]
Superheaven’s first album in a decade revives the winning hybrid of post-hardcore and alt-rock that has earned the Pennsylvania four-piece an unlikely army of TikTok loyalists. Perhaps emboldened by a viral resurgence, the band sets off another furnace of heavy, anthemic gloom on this self-titled LP, led by the shoegaze-shaded “Cruel Times,” as well as interim singles “Long Gone” and “Numb to What Is Real.”
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Lucy Railton: Blue Veil [Ideologic Organ]
Lucy Railton collects her first recorded suite of solo cello compositions on Blue Veil, expanding a catalog at the nexus of classical and electronic composition that includes past collaborations with the likes of Kali Malone, Stephen O’Malley, and Laurel Halo. On Blue Veil, the British composer coaxes earthy tremors from the cello, turning the sound of bow scrapes and resonant harmony into a languid psychic expanse.
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