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 Bossman Dlow; Amen Dunes; Roc Marciano & Alchemist; Saint Etienne; Daniel Blumberg; YhapoJJ: Fabiano do Nascimento & Shin Sasakubo; and Valee & Surf Gang. 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.)
Bossman Dlow: Dlow Curry [Alamo]
Ever since he dropped his breakout single “Get in With Me” at the start of this year, Florida rapper Bossman Dlow has been riding viral fame on the strength of TikTok and Instagram, a Glorilla remix, and a Ciara feature. Now, with three mixtapes under his belt, including March’s Mr Beat the Road, he’s rolling out Dlow Curry, his first proper studio album. Dlow spends 23 songs reintroducing himself on his debut full-length with a little help from his friends: Ice Spice, Lil Baby, French Montana, Glorilla, Babyface Ray, and NoCap.
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Amen Dunes: Death Jokes II [Sub Pop]
After nearly two decades winding inward from indie-pop’s outer limits, Damon McMahon is closing out his Amen Dunes project with Death Jokes II, a new set of stripped-down reworkings of music from his last album, Death Jokes. “This is the last chapter of the final volume,” McMahon said. “Goodbye, I’ve barely said a word to you, but it’s always like that at parties—we never really see each other, we never say the things we should like to.” Made with producer Craig Silvey, the new record features contributions from Panoram, Kwake Bass, Christoffer Berg, and Robbie Lee.
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Roc Marciano & The Alchemist: The Skeleton Key [Pimpire/Marci Enterprises]
Roc Marciano and the Alchemist are teaming up, once again, for a collaborative album. The follow-up to 2022’s The Elephant Man’s Bones is hunched and hyper-focused, with no other producers or rappers joining the duo across its entire runtime. Instead, The Skeleton Key explores an intimate—but no less brooding—environment, pushing the two artists to feed off of one another’s energy. The 10-song LP was previewed only by “Chopstick,” the album’s sole single, along with its music video.
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Saint Etienne: The Night [Heavenly]
Saint Etienne follow 2021’s I’ve Been Trying to Tell You with The Night, an album of cinematic nocturnes and spoken-word interludes backdropped by trickling rain, sheets of reverb, and lulling synth arpeggios. Said the band’s Bob Stanley in press materials, “We were trying to find the state that’s between being awake and asleep, that dream space, with half forgotten thoughts drifting in, bits of TV dialogue, place names, streets, or football grounds you’ve never even been to. You feel very receptive to sound and half-covered memories when you’re in that state.”
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Daniel Blumberg: The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Milan]
Daniel Blumberg, former Yuck frontperson, is now reborn as a Golden Globe–nominated film composer. His score for A24’s historical drama The Brutalist, he said in press materials, opens with a “cacophony of the brass, the repetition of the prepared piano, the more lyrical piano melodies, and the instrumental techniques that blur with the diegetic sound,” before escalating toward an “extremely disorientating sensory overload” to match the film’s epic sweep from postwar Europe to midcentury Philadelphia.
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YhapoJJ: No Ceilings [Simple Stupid]
Within a month of Before T.L.Y.—itself a swift successor to May’s P.S. Fuck You—Alabama’s YhapoJJ is back with another mixtape. The 19-year-old rapper goes it alone on the 10-song No Ceilings, working primarily with producers DCM and Tylo.
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Fabiano do Nascimento & Shin Sasakubo: Harmônicos [Rings]
Harmonicos was born onstage, in Japan, where guitarists Fabiano do Nascimento and Shin Sasakubo played their first concert together in a state of improvisational rapture. The Brazilian and Japanese guitarists decamped to the studio and recorded hypnotic duets riven with harmonic and tonal surprises, in evidence on the slinky latticework of “Após a Tempestade.”
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Valee & Surf Gang: Grey Sky London EP [Surf Gang]
The Surf Gang insurgency continues with Grey Sky London, wherein the collective’s founder, Evilgiane, unspools his trademark hybrid rap production—quick, playful drum patterns that emerge from some haunted fantasy underworld—beneath lullaby-trap bars from Chicago rapper Valee. The five tracks include added input from producers including NikeTech, Harrison, Eera, and Ccured.
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