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 Lana Del Rey, Whitney, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Pharmakon, Joan Shelley, Lil Tecca, and Fire-Toolz. 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 may earn an affiliate commission.)
Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! [Polydor/Interscope]
Finally: Lana Del Rey has shared Norman Fucking Rockwell!, her long-teased follow-up to 2017’s Lust for Life. Read Pitchfork’s reviews of “Mariners apartment complex,” “Venice bitch” (named Best New Track) “Doin’ time,” and “The greatest” (also named Best New Track).
Check out Lana’s music videos for “Mariners apartment complex,” “Venice bitch,” “Fuck it I love you & The greatest,” and “Doin’ time.”
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Whitney: Forever Turned Around [Secretly Canadian]
Forever Turned Around is the sophomore LP from Whitney—the Chicago-based band led by vocalist/drummer Julien Ehrlich and guitarist Max Kakacek. Brad Cook and Jonathan Rado co-produced the album, which follows 2016’s Light Upon the Lake. Check out Pitchfork’s track review of “Giving Up.”
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Black Belt Eagle Scout: At the Party With My Brown Friends [Saddle Creek]
At the Party With My Brown Friends is multi-instrumentalist Katherine Paul’s second album as Black Belt Eagle Scout, following last year’s Mother of My Children. Discussing her recent single “Run It to Ya,” Paul said in a statement, “Throughout my work, I intend to show the thriving lives of Indigenous people, and how we are often excluded from mainstream rock music and the media.”
Read Pitchfork’s review of lead single “At the Party.”
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Pharmakon: Devour [Sacred Bones]
New York-based artist Margaret Chardiet is back with her fourth Pharmakon album. Devour follows 2017’s Contact. She recorded the new LP live in the studio with Ben Greenberg of Uniform.
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Joan Shelley: Like the River Loves the Sea [No Quarter]
Louisville, Kentucky’s Joan Shelley recorded and co-produced her new album Like the River Loves the Sea in Reykjavík, Iceland. The album, written by Shelley, has production from James Elkington, guitar from Nathan Salsburg, vocals from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and strings from Icelandic siblings Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir and Sigrún Kristbjörg Jónsdóttir.
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Lil Tecca: We Love You Tecca [Galactic/Republic]
We Love You Tecca is the debut project from 17-year-old New York rapper Lil Tecca. It opens with his breakout single “Ransom,” which landed him a deal with Republic Records and has reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The project also includes the Juice WRLD remix of “Ransom.”
Read about We Love You Tecca’s “Ransom” and “Love Me” in Levels’ The Ones.
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Fire-Toolz: Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace) [Orange Milk]
Fire-Toolz is the project of Chicago producer/multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid. Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace) follows last year’s Skinless X-1. In his Pitchfork review of the new album, Miles Bowe writes, “Field Whispers [is] Marcloid’s strongest statement under any moniker, a reaffirmation of her work as a wild playground where anything can happen—and usually does.”
Watch Fire-Toolz’s music videos for “✓ BEiNG” and “mailto:spasm@swamp.god?subject=Mind-Body Parallels / Clear Light.”
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