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 Arca, HAIM, MIKE, Jessie Ware, and Quin Kirchner. 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.)
Arca released the 62-minute piece @@@@@ in February, but KiCk i is the Venezuelan producer’s first studio LP since 2017’s Arca. The new album was led by “Nonbinary,” “Time,” and “Mequetrefe,” as well as the Rosalía collaboration “KLK.” Other KiCk i guests include Björk, SOPHIE, and Shygirl.
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HAIM: Women in Music Pt. III [Columbia]
The Haim sisters each tapped on a heavy personal setback to inspire the songwriting on their third LP—co-produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam, and Ariel Rechtshaid. Women in Music Pt. III moves away from the trio’s usual summery moods and grows toward more carefully shaded nuance. Read Pitchfork’s Best New Music review of Women in Music Pt. III.
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MIKE: Weight of the World [10k]
A year after dropping Tears of Joy, Bronx rapper MIKE is back with Weight of the World. The album, which MIKE largely produced under his DJ Blackpower alias, has contributions from familiar faces like Earl Sweatshirt, KeiyaA, Jadasea, and Darryl Johnson. Check out Pitchfork’s review of the single “Nothin2Say (Never Forget).”
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Jessie Ware: What’s Your Pleasure? [PMR/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope]
After a frustrating touring cycle around her third album Glasshouse in 2018, singer-songwriter Jessie Ware said her mother advised her to quit music. Instead, Ware turned more of her attention toward her popular food podcast Table Manners (which she hosts with her mom) and her family. Ware’s new record, What’s Your Pleasure?, emerged from her reassembled priorities. Check out Pitchfork’s Best New Track review of the album opener “Spotlight.”
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Quin Kirchner: The Shadows and the Light [Astral Spirits]
Drummer and DJ Quin Kirchner developed his chops in the busy free jazz scene of his native Chicago. On The Shadows and the Light, he delivers original material alongside compositions by Sun Ra (“Planet Earth”), Kelan Phil Cohran (“Sahara”), and Carla Bley (“King Korn”). The album’s woodwinds-heavy arrangements include ample saxophones and bass clarinet, as well as trombone and keys.
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