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 Mac Miller, 070 Shake, Keeley Forsyth, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, of Montreal, and Aoife Nessa Frances. 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.)
Mac Miller: Circles [Warner]
Circles is the first posthumous album from Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, who died in 2018 at the age of 26. The 12-track LP is a companion album to Miller’s previous release, 2018’s Swimming. Like Swimming, Circles was partly made in collaboration with Jon Brion. In his Pitchfork review of the album, Sheldon Pearce writes, “Circles provides some resolution and helps finish Miller’s final thoughts.” Read Pitchfork’s track review of “Good News.”
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070 Shake: MODUS VIVENDI [G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam]
MODUS VIVENDI is the debut album from G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam signee 070 Shake. It follows her 2018 G.O.O.D. debut Glitter EP. Check out Shake’s new music video for “Guilty Conscience” and read Pitchfork’s new feature interview “070 Shake Moves Beyond the Buzz.”
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Keeley Forsyth: Debris [The Leaf Label]
English artist Keeley Forsyth has been a working actor since the ’90s, but Debris marks her first album of original music. The eight-track LP of gloomy folk was written by Forsyth, produced by Sam Hobbs, and arranged by Hobbs, Mark Creswell, and Matthew Bourne. Watch Forsyth’s music videos for “Debris” and “Start Again.”
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: X: The Godless Void and Other Stories [Dine Alone]
Austin, Texas rock band …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have been together for 25 years, and, to celebrate that anniversary, they’ve released their 10th studio album. X: The Godless Void and Other Stories is comprised of 12 tracks, including previously-shared single “Don’t Look Down,” which arrived with a music video directed by the band’s Conrad Keely.
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of Montreal: UR FUN [Polyvinyl]
UR FUN is of Montreal’s first studio album since 2018’s White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood. The band recently shared the album’s “You’ve Had Me Everywhere,” which Kevin Barnes called “one of the purest and most unguarded love songs in [his] oeuvre.”
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Aoife Nessa Frances: Land of No Junction [Ba Da Bing]
Land of No Junction is the debut album from North Dublin-based singer-songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances. Frances co-produced the album with fellow Irish guitarist Cian Nugent. Ahead of the record’s release, Frances shared videos for “Blow Up” and “Here in the Dark.”
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