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 PinkPantheress, Aesop Rock, Mon Laferte, Foodman, Larry June & Cardo, Tyvek, 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.)
PinkPantheress: Heaven Knows [300 Entertainment]
The debut album from PinkPantheress has arrived. “I had to level up, I couldn’t just use loops anymore,” she said of the album in a recent interview. “I had to get other people to come in.” Kelela, Rema, and Central Cee also contributed, while Greg Kurstin and Danny L Harle are among the producers. Heaven Knows features the recent single “Mosquito” and the Ice Spice–featuring hit “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2.”
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Aesop Rock: Integrated Tech Solutions [Rhymesayers]
The new album from Aesop Rock is his first solo effort since 2020’s Spirit World Field Guide. Integrated Tech Solutions features contributions from billy woods, Hanni El Khatib, Rob Sonic, Nikki Jean, and Lealani Teano. It includes the lead single “Mindful Solutionism” and another song called, irresistibly, “Pigeonometry.”
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Mon Laferte: Autopoiética [Universal Music Mexico]
Mon Laferte got the name of her new album, Autopoiética, from Chilean biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana, who coined the term for cells’ self-maintenance. “Our biologists are great thinkers, so I wanted the creation of this album to be born from this term,” she said in a statement. “I take this concept, and I take it to a metaphorical side. I take it as an insignia. I am autopoietic by nature. All beings can create and be reborn constantly.”
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Foodman: Uchigawa Tankentai EP [Hyperdub]
Foodman—the moniker of Japanese producer Takahide Higuchi—is back with his latest EP, Uchigawa Tankentai. The title translates to “inner journey.” Opening song “Pichi Pichi” hits you with the following words: “I want to eat delicious potatoes; I want to make them crispy and delicious.” That’s right. The new project follows 2021’s Yasuragi Land, which translated to “tranquility land.”
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Larry June & Cardo: The Night Shift [The Freeminded]
Larry June and producer Cardo’s collaborative album The Night Shift features a stacked lineup of guests. 2 Chainz, Schoolboy Q, Blxst, the Alchemist, Dej Loaf, Too $hort, Peezy, Jordan Ward, Payroll Giovanni, and Aleman all appear on the album. The project includes “The Good Kind” and “Chops on the Blade.”
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Tyvek: Overground [Ginkgo]
The long-running Detroit punk institution Tyvek have released their first proper album since 2016’s Origin of What. Kevin Boyer is joined this time by a lineup that includes Fred Thomas, Shelley Salant, Alex Glendening, and Emily Roll. After putting out their last three albums on In the Red, Overground’s being released in-house on Salant’s Ginkgo imprint.
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Patrick Shiroishi: I Was Too Young to Hear Silence [American Dreams]
Patrick Shiroishi, the Los Angeles–based Japanese American saxophonist and composer, is back with his latest solo album. I Was Too Young to Hear Silence was recorded in a single improvised session in a parking garage late at night with a saxophone, glockenspiel, two microphones, and a recorder. “The title kind of refers to when I was younger… I would fill all the space with as many notes and as loud of volume as I could,” Shiroishi said in a statement. “Not saying that there’s any wrong way to play, but for me, after a while, I was confused with what I was trying to say.”
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