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 Tyler, the Creator; Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band; Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist; Indigo De Souza; ZayAllCaps; Tyler Childers; Far Caspian; Cory Hanson; Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim; and Tommy Genesis. 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.)
Tyler, the Creator: Don’t Tap the Glass [Columbia]
Tyler, the Creator wants you to dance. Not just at the listening parties he threw to celebrate Don’t Tap the Glass, but in the bedrooms, living rooms, and whatever other spaces the ebullient LP might bring bursting to life. Released early Monday morning, the follow-up to Chromakopia is woven into his fans’ lives already—and, now, as if by design, it ought to be just familiar enough to soundtrack a lively weekend. “This album was not made for sitting still,” Tyler wrote in a note. “Dancing driving running any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it. Only at full volume.”
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Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul [Sophomore Lounge]
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band make workmanlike country-folk songwriting sound like music of boundless possibility. On New Threats From the Soul, the follow-up to Dancing on the Edge, they brew together sophistipop cadences, pedal-steel sighs, and astral synth spangle to spend sparks flying from Davis’ hounded baritone, with lyrics that duck, weave, and take existential strolls, but always land their punches. That master lyricists Will Oldham, Catherine Irwin, and Lou Turner signed up for backing vocals speaks to the beguiling LP’s pedigree.
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Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist: Alfredo 2 [Rabbit Vision/ALC]
Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist are back with a sequel to their 2020 collaboration Alfredo. The 14-track album, Alfredo 2, includes contributions from the likes of Anderson .Paak, Larry June, and JID. Gibbs and the Alchemist shared lead single and opening track “1995” upon announcing the record, as well as a short film shot in Japan and directed by Nick Walker.
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Indigo De Souza: Precipice [Loma Vista]
Indigo de Souza went into Precipice blind, enlisting mystery session players to propel her diaristic indie-folk ever further into a pure pop realm. Forging a kinship with producer Elliott Kozel for the All of This Will End follow-up, she airlifted songs from a quagmire of heartbreak and melancholy to the sanctuary of the dancefloor, never sacrificing her trademark sense of yearning or nervous possibility. “Life feels like always being on the edge of something without knowing what that something is,” as she put it in press materials. “Music gives me ways to harness that feeling.”
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ZayAllCaps: Art Pop * Pop Art [AutoTuneKaraoke]
ZayAllCaps makes R&B so lustrous and featherlight it seems suspended in a dream state. The Los Angeles–via–Sacramento singer led his new project, Art Pop * Pop Art, with “MTV’s Pimp My Ride,” a ballad that absorbs the psychedelic sultriness of the last decade’s Los Angeles R&B and tops it with a dollop of homestyle 1990s syrup. The full, 25-minute project turns that daydream into fully immersive reality.
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Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter [Hickman Holler/RCA]
Snipe Hunter, the latest album from Kentucky-born Tyler Childers, pairs the country singer-songwriter with legendary producer Rick Rubin. The follow-up to Childers’ 2023 full-length Rustin’ in the Rain contains the softly strummed single “Oneida” and a re-recorded version his 2017 song “Nose on the Grindstone.” Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and Childers himself provided additional production across the LP’s 13 songs.
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Far Caspian: Autofiction [Tiny Library]
Joel Johnston’s Far Caspian project is bloody-mindedly DIY at the best of times. But the Irish musician went into Autofiction (the self-produced, -mixed, -mastered, -released, and entirely self-performed follow-up to The Last Remaining Light) with a particularly stubborn credo: “I’m enjoying this right now and therefore it’s good enough.” The result is an outpouring of gauzy anthems, scrappy confessionals, and multi-layered guitars plugged right into his heart, mixing inspiration from grayscale alt-rock with watercolor shades of Broken Social Scene and Supercar.
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Cory Hanson: I Love People [Drag City]
Wand frontperson Cory Hanson corralled the same lineup that recorded last year’s Vertigo for his latest solo record, the American Songbook–infused I Love People. Nostalgia whistles through airy country-folk numbers like “Bird on a Swing,” his vocals delivered in a lugubrious tone that settles like an umami note beneath the verdant compositions. Ballad “Lou Reed,” meanwhile, remembers the great songwriter with collapsing keys, mournful swoons, wistful strings and sax, and a touchingly straightforward chorus: “You were a prince and a fighter/And you were a tai chi master.”
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Homeboy Sandman & Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria [Dirty Looks/We Buy Gold]
Homeboy Sandman and British rapper and producer Sonnyjim join forces on Soli Deo Gloria, in which the latter steps back from the mic to let his Queens counterpart incant, drawl, ruminate, and flex over his freewheeling vintage productions. Spun together quickly, working both remotely and in-person, the duo settled into a jazz-suffused sound that allows Sandman to alternate between introvert and extrovert modes, delivering pep talks for himself and the world. “Whatever happens is supposed to happen,” he added in press materials. “So relax. Read. Never give up. Lead with love. Be yourself and love yourself.”
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Tommy Genesis: Genesis [Ultra]
Following her 2021 album, Goldilocks X, and the Charlie Heat–assisted stopgap World on Fire, Tommy Genesis returns with her most autobiographical record to date, Genesis. Alongside executive producers Take a Daytrip, the rapper and singer ratchets up the momentum of anthemic singles like the party-starting “Girl’s Girl,” which she released with a playful warning: “I’m a girl’s girl (through & through). To all my hetero cis male fans: If your girl wants you to unfollow me—you better do it.”
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