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 Lil Durk; Water From Your Eyes; Arlo Parks; Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano; Sparks; HiTech; Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga & Tapiwa Svosve; M. Sage; and Pines of Rome. 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.)
Lil Durk: Almost Healed [Alamo]
Lil Durk launched the home stretch of his Almost Healed campaign with the J. Cole collaboration “All My Life,” which came with a feel-good video shot in Durk’s native Chicago. The remaining tracks feature Future, 21 Savage, Alicia Keys, a Juice WRLD verse, and production from the likes of Metro Boomin and Southside. Almost Healed follows last year’s 7220.
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Water From Your Eyes: Everyone’s Crushed [Matador]
Water From Your Eyes compose freaky pop music out of helter-skelter beats, pitch-bent guitars, weltering synth glitches, signal-jammed earworms, and vocalist Rachel Brown’s sometimes chanted, sometimes chatty, always oddly catchy cadences. Preceded by “Barley,” the alt-pop artists’ sixth studio album and Matador debut twists familiar sounds into horribly misshapen, Beefheartian symphonies that nonetheless make sense of our broken times and minds. Read Pitchfork’s feature “Alt-Pop Duo Water From Your Eyes Commit to the Bit.”
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Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine [Transgressive]
Arlo Parks wrote her second album of immersive indie folk, pop, and rock about a first love, “mid-twenties anxiety,” her friends’ substance use, and “PTSD and grief and self sabotage and joy, moving through worlds with wonder and sensitivity,” she said in press materials. The British singer-songwriter named the album after a quote from Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir about the allure of cinema: “We don’t want to see life as it is played out; we want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.” Phoebe Bridgers features on the single “Pegasus.”
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Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano: Nothing Bigger Than the Program [GDF/Marci Enterprises/Empire]
Compton’s Jay Worthy and New York’s Roc Marciano join forces on their new album, Nothing Bigger Than the Program. Fresh from his level-up with last year’s The Elephant Man’s Bones, Marciano produced the album for the West Coast prodigy, with guest spots from Bun B, A$AP Ant, Ab-Soul, Da$h, Kurupt, and more.
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Sparks: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte [Island]
Sparks never really went away, but the theatrical pop duo has enjoyed a return to the public eye in recent years thanks to two major film projects: Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers documentary and the unorthodox musical Annette, which the Mael brothers penned with Leos Carax. Their first album since all that—and first with Island since leaving the label in 1976—is The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte, a characteristically unpredictable mix of oddball vignettes set to infectious synthpop. Preceding the album were the title track and its video, in which Cate Blanchett dances, David Byrne style, in a really nice yellow suit.
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HiTech: Détwat [FXHE]
Détwat is the latest from HiTech—aka King Milo, Milf Melly, and 47Chops. The Detroit trio meld rap with locally grown footwork, juke, and techno into a sub-genre called ghettotech, which is having a resurgence in Midwest nightclubs. The new album follows the group’s 2021 self-titled debut, and and it includes the DJKillaSquid-featuring single “Zooted.”
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Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga & Tapiwa Svosve: The Sport of Love [Pan]
The Sport of Love is the latest collaborative work of exploratory jazz—by turns freeform, ambient, alien, and spiritual—from composer and cellist Patrick Belaga, Swiss saxophonist and electroacoustic musician Tapiwa Svosve, and Los Angeles producer Asma Maroof (also known as Asmara). For the new album, Maroof took the other two musicians’ compositions and improvisations and “made sense of the madness,” she said in press materials.
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M. Sage: Paradise Crick [Rvng Intl.]
Paradise Crick is M. Sage’s debut album on Rvng Intl., following over a decade of releases on smaller indie labels. For his new collection, Sage was inspired by the great outdoors, specifically the landscapes of Colorado, as well as Richard Brautigan’s classic novella Trout Fishing in America. He recorded Paradise Crick’s 13 songs on a colorful array of instruments such as harmonica, autoharp, chimes, and penny whistle.
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Pines of Rome: The Unstruck Bell [Solid Brass]
The Unstruck Bell is the first new Pines of Rome album in two decades. The Rhode Island slowcore band comprises Songs:Ohia’s Matthew Derby on vocals and guitar, High Aura’d guitarist John Kolodij, drummer Rick Prior, and bassist Steven Kimura. The quartet announced the new LP with lead single “Slick Enhancer” back in March and has since shared the scuzzy rock cut “Redacted.”
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