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 the 1975, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucrecia Dalt, Bill Callahan, Plains, Mavi, Sam Gendel, and Palm. 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.)

The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language [Dirty Hit]

For the follow-up to Notes on a Conditional Form, Matty Healy and co. enlisted super-producer du jour Jack Antonoff. “People may think that it’s ‘uncool’ to work with the biggest producer in the world,” Healy told Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal. “I don’t give a fuck. I wanna make a great fucking record.” The album, which was led by “Part of the Band,” “Happiness,” “I’m in Love With You,” and “All I Need to Hear,” is “the band’s shortest and most focused album yet, one that perpetuates a simple message: Love will save us,” Brady Brickner-Wood wrote in his review of Being Funny in a Foreign Language. “It’s cliché, it’s obvious, it’s slyly profound—it’s the 1975.”

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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Return of the Dream Canteen [Warner]

Red Hot Chili Peppers released their first album of 2022, Unlimited Love, back in April. For those who felt 17 Chilis songs in a single year was too few, they announced in July that a follow-up was on the way. Now, Return of the Dream Canteen is here, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ second LP of 2022 is “easily as meaningful as the first,” the band said in press materials. It includes lead single “Tippa My Tongue” and an Eddie Van Halen tribute called “Eddie.”

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Lucrecia Dalt: ¡Ay! [Rvng Intl.]

¡Ay! is the latest full-length from Colombian musician Lucrecia Dalt. The follow-up to her 2020 album No era sólida is subtle and slinking, drawing on genres like bolero and jazz. In June, Dalt released ¡Ay!’s lead single “No tiempo,” which was one of the first pieces she composed for her new record. “I wanted to explore a sense of weightlessness,” Dalt said in a press release at the time. “A soft rhythm inspired by a bolero pattern and a voice moving through a swarm of synthesizers. This was the first track where I thought about how I could bring together these two disparate things: bolero and science fiction.” Following No era sólida, Dalt collaborated with Aaron Dilloway on Lucy & Aaron, and penned scores for The Seed and The Baby.

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Bill Callahan: YTILAER [Drag City]

YTILAER is Bill Callahan’s follow-up to 2020’s Gold Record, as well as Blind Date Party, his 2021 collaboration with Bonnie “Prince” Billy. The new LP includes the singles “Coyotes” and “Natural Information.” He recorded the new album with a horn section and backup singers.

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Plains: I Walked With You a Ways [Anti-]

Together, Jess Williamson and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield are Plains. Their debut album, I Walked With You a Ways, contains 10 country originals, including “Problem With It,” “Abilene,” and “Hurricane.” Crutchfield and Williamson recorded their new LP with producer Brad Cook in Durham, North Carolina. Spencer Tweedy and Phil Cook also contributed to the record. Read the new interview “Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson Break Down Their Collaborative Country Project Plains” over on the Pitch.

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Mavi: Laughing So Hard It Hurts [self-released]

Mavi returns with his sophomore album, Laughing So Hard It Hurts. The Charlotte rapper had another version of the record, called Shango, ready to go, but chose to shelve the project to focus more closely on sociopolitical issues, his community, and personal subject matter. Read Pitchfork’s reviews of “Baking Soda” and “Doves.”

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Sam Gendel: Blueblue [Leaving]

Prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel recorded his new album Blueblue in isolation, working out of a makeshift cabin studio atop a tributary of Oregon’s Columbia River. Gendel wrote primarily on guitar, and then fleshed each composition out with saxophone, keys, and percussion—the latter courtesy of Craig Weinrib, who tracked his parts remotely. The 14 songs on Blueblue each correspond to a pattern within the traditional Japanese embroidery style sashiko.

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Palm: Nicks and Grazes [Saddle Creek]

Nicks and Grazes is the third full-length from Philadelphia art rockers Palm. The four-piece—made up of Eve Alpert, Kasra Kurt, Gerasimos Livitsanos, and Hugo Stanley—issued their last LP, Rock Island, back in 2018. Read Pitchfork’s review of the new album’s lead single, “Feathers.”

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