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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 Sabrina Carpenter, Blood Orange, the Beths, Anna Tivel, Ganser, Westside Gunn, Zach Top, CMAT, and Lathe of Heaven. 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.)
Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend [Island]
After graduating from the school of pop underdogs with Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter is back with Man’s Best Friend—another manically characterful, mood-improving, hater-infuriating opus of screwball pop that angles for guffaws rather than big feelings and occasionally gets both. From the country jangle of “Go Go Juice” to “House Tour”’s bubblegum funk, the album presents Carpenter as a multi-costumed maven pouring glitter in the gutter of lowest-common-denominator pop and inviting the world to take a swig. Don’t be mad! Drink up.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Blood Orange: Essex Honey [RCA]
Devonté Hynes’ return as Blood Orange follows a period of relative quiet (his last studio album, Negro Swan, came out in 2019) in which his status has nonetheless ballooned. As well as having his old classic “Uncle Ace” synced in a memorable Challengers scene, Hynes has essayed further into classical music, whose form and texture color the eclectic borders of new album Essex Honey. Joining him for the indie-pop odyssey is an armada of guests: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Amandla Stenberg, and Zadie Smith, among others.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie [Anti-]
“I thought I was getting better, but I’m back to where I started,” the Beths singer Elizabeth Stoke admits when opening the band’s first album in three years. After feeling frustrated by songwriting stall-outs and the nonlinear trajectory of life’s highs and lows, the Beths learned that creativity can’t be lost; you just need to find alternate pathways to it sometimes—hence the album’s title, Straight Line Was a Lie. From the ironic thrills of “No Joy” to the confessional “Mother, Pray for Me,” the New Zealand indie-rockers find their groove again after the surreal feeling of breaking out with 2022’s Expert in a Dying Field.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Anna Tivel: Animal Poem [Fluff & Gravy]
Anna Tivel recorded her new album, Animal Poem, in a circle of close friends, and the record feels like a sort of communion—not only between that circle but also between the Portland, Oregon, singer-songwriter and the characters she sends loping through the world, pondering existence. Written in the flush of a new friendship with co-producer, engineer, and musician Sam Weber, the album unspools a suite of folk miniatures riven with discursive melodies as evocative as the cultural ephemera dotted through the lyrics.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Ganser: Animal Hospital [Felte]
Ganser are an eminent Chicago post-punk band whose songs mix the trashy and the otherworldly, the noise-rock howl and the melodic earworm. Produced with their longtime collaborator Angus Andrews of Liars, Animal Hospital showcases their playfulness and poise, balancing high-octane punk whirlwinds with headier excursions into dubbed-out zones, as vocalist Sophie Sputnik chants and hollers like Les Savy Fav’s Tim Harrington leading an army into the apocalypse.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Westside Gunn: Heels Have Eyes 2 [Griselda]
Westside Gunn recorded April’s 10-minute Heels Have Eyes in just one day. The Griselda rapper stretches out considerably across the sequel’s 37 minutes, bringing along familiar collaborators, like Conductor Williams, Harry Fraud, DJ Muggs, Benny the Butcher, and Stove God Cooks, but also a surprising and welcome new face in New York underground hero MIKE, who features on the Myles-produced “Blow Hendry.” Heels Have Eyes 2 is another reliable entry in the Buffalo, New York, rapper’s vast catalog of gritty hip-hop.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Zach Top: Ain’t in It for My Health [Leo33]
Zach Top doesn’t hail from the South, but he sure as hell sounds like he does. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter grew up on a farm in rural Sunnyside, Washington, doing chores and listening to traditional country music. Ain’t in It for My Health is Top’s second album, following last year’s Cold Beer & Country Music, and he’s still making tunes that wouldn’t sound out of place blasting from a honky-tonk or sung by Southern stars Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, or Alan Jackson. The new album was led by the singles “Good Times & Tan Lines” and “South of Sanity.”
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories CMAT: Euro-Country [AWAL]
Euro-Country is both a country album and an album about a country. On her third full-length, CMAT offers a country-dappled twist on Irish indie-pop, as she grieves the economics of country life and the grip that the euro currency has over Ireland. Euro-Country swings big, be it over fiddle on “When a Good Man Cries” or in the big-hearted balladry of the title track. By the time CMAT is belting out her heart during the massive, cinematic outro of “The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station,” she is not just envisioning a new genre but dreaming up a whole new Ireland.
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Entertainment news Celebrity gossip Movie and TV show updates Latest celebrity news Trending entertainment stories Lathe of Heaven: Aurora [Sacred Bones]
Lathe of Heaven so thoroughly channel the pop-oriented, beat-driven post-punk that briefly rose out of the British underground in the 1980s that their new album, Aurora, could be mistaken for a meticulously remastered echo. But the Brooklyn, New York, quartet is as much concerned with the future as the past. Having taken their name from an Ursula K. Le Guin novel, Lathe of Heaven double down with a series of sci-fi vignettes that serve as allegories for anti-colonialism and resistance, including a paean for Gaza in “Portrait of a Scorched-Earth.”
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