With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be exhausting to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork presents a run-down of great new releases out there on streaming providers. This week’s batch consists of new albums from Jenny Hval; Mannequin/Actriz; Automobile Seat Headrest; Yung Lean; Anthony Naples; Boldy James & Actual Dangerous Man; Blondshell; Mei Semones; Paco Cathcart; Loscil; and Wet Miller. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist [4AD]
Iris Silver Mist, the newest album from the ever-familiar, ever-surprising singer-songwriter Jenny Hval, emerged from a sequence of concert events through which she positioned rice cookers across the stage to fill the venue with the claggy aroma of residence comforts. The album, itself named after a fragrance, faucets into her trademark talent for turning misty, windswept synths into lush backdrops for heavenly melodies to thunderbolt proper into. As ever, she offsets her baroque largesse with casually deep, oddly humorous observational lyrics that flip traces like, “You had bled by means of your denims,” into springboards for comedian monologues and philosophical yarns.
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Mannequin/Actriz: Pirouette [True Panther]
