With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be laborious to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork gives a run-down of serious new releases out there on streaming providers. This week’s batch consists of new albums from Fragrance Genius, Destroyer, Lucy Dacus, Aya, YT, Eiko Ishibashi, Deafheaven, Nice Grandpa, Ohyung, and Sandwell District. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Once you purchase one thing by way of our affiliate hyperlinks, nevertheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Fragrance Genius: Glory [Matador]
Following the cryptic, nonlinear compositions of 2022’s Ugly Season, Mike Hadreas returns to a extra typical singer-songwriter mode on his seventh studio album as Perfume Genius. The blistering one-two punch of lead single “It’s a Mirror” and the Aldous Harding duet “No Front Teeth” seems to be a little bit of a misdirect, as Glory can also be Hadreas’ quietest, most reserved report in over a decade. That mentioned, he and co-producer Blake Mills nonetheless muster up moments of chic magnificence prefer it’s simply one other Tuesday; see the tender devotional “Me & Angel,” a maybe-tribute to Celine Dion, and “In a Row,” the rollicking, Eleventh-hour showstopper that would even unseat “Queen” as his concert-closer of alternative.
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