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 Earl Sweatshirt, Mac DeMarco, Nourished by Time, Deftones, Ghostface Killah, Water From Your Eyes, Wolf Alice, Kathleen Edwards, Ami Taf Ra, Superchunk, Hunx and His Punx, Scree, and Greg Freeman. 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.)
Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love [Tan Cressida/Warner]
Earl Sweatshirt trickled out Live Love Laugh with cheeky teasers and a Los Angeles listening party. The new album follows the 2023 Alchemist collaboration Voir Dire, and it’s the rapper’s first solo effort since 2022’s Sick!, but it really shares its DNA with 2018 opus Some Rap Songs. The 11-song album is similarly filled with off-kilter, sample-driven beats, and the Californian’s lyrics and deadpan delivery are as potent and affecting as ever. Producers on the album include Theravada, Navy Blue, Black Noi$e, and Child Actor, and Erykah Badu adds vocals to the closing “Exhaust.”
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Mac DeMarco: Guitar [Mac’s Record Label]
