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 Hotline TNT, Tkay Maidza, Marnie Stern, Ian Sweet, Matmos, Amor Muere, Actress, Empty Country, and William Eggleston. 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.)

Hotline TNT: Cartwheel [Third Man]

Two years after Hotline TNT’s Will Anderson dropped the band’s Nineteen in Love on YouTube, he and the group are back with a new LP, Cartwheel, that arrives via Third Man. “It’s about breaking hearts and being heartbroken,” Anderson told Pitchfork earlier this year, noting that the group’s inclinations toward loud, fuzzy walls of guitars are “supposed to sound huge.” Read Pitchfork’s Rising feature “Hotline TNT Filter Heartbreak Through Dizzying, Distorted Guitar Rock.”

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Tkay Maidza: Sweet Justice [4AD]

Sweet Justice, the latest from African Australian rapper Tkay Maidza, features party-starting single “Ring-a-Ling,” the Flume-produced “Silent Assassin,” and collaborations with Lolo Zouaï, Amber Mark, Duckwrth, and producers Kaytranada and Stint. “Sweet Justice was a way for me to channel my emotions from what I’ve experienced in the last two years,” Maidza said in press materials. “It’s a diary of things and thoughts I’ve kept to myself. Making the record was a healing experience, and I’m grateful to have worked with producers who have inspired me throughout my career.”

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Marnie Stern: The Comeback Kid [Joyful Noise]

New York’s Marnie Stern delivers her first LP in a decade with The Comeback Kid, a blistering return of high-energy guitar antics and a demonstration of chops that have only sharpened in the intervening years. Her follow-up to 2013’s The Chronicles of Marnia speeds through a dozen boisterous, flashy tracks in half an hour. Stern released album opener “Plain Speak” in August, following it with “Believing Is Seeing” and “Til It’s Over.”

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Ian Sweet: Sucker [Polyvinyl]

Sucker, the fourth album from wily pop and indie-rock artist Ian Sweet, injects the songwriter’s self-scrutinizing lyrics with soaring melodies expand upon every element of her diverse catalog. Where 2021’s Show Me How You Disappear chronicled her reckoning with a mental health crisis, Sucker “wasn’t life or death—it was just life, and I was lucky to be living it,” she said in press materials.

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Matmos: Return to Archive [Smithsonian Folkways]

Matmos’ Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt mined the furthest corners of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog to create Return to Archive, a collection of re-worked material culled from the organization’s vast collections of non-musical recordings. The duo sampled sounds from frogs, dolphins, special effects, insects educational recordings, and more, re-constructing them into the likes of “Mud Dauber Wasp” and “Injection Basic Sound.”

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Amor Muere: A Time to Love, a Time to Die [Scrawl]

A Time to Love, a Time to Die is the second Mabe Fratti–involved record to be released in recent weeks, following October’s Vidrio with Titanic. Here, she’s part of a Mexico City–based performance collective with Concepción Huerta, Camille Mandoki, and Gibrana Cervantes. Their album as Amor Muere, a collage of vocals, tape manipulation, synthesizers, and strings grew out of a 2018 performance in their home city. “It’s a beautiful process where we connect through emotions and feelings as friends to make music,” wrote Cervantes in a statement.

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Actress: LXXXVIII [Ninja Tune]

On his latest album as Actress, the avant-garde electronic producer Darren Cunningham set out to apply game theory to his artistic practice. (He teased the record with a trailer that could be accessed after playing him at online chess.) Actress led LXXXVIII—whose promotion will include support slots with James Blake—with singles including “Its Me ( g 8 )” and “Game Over ( e 1 ),” which flitter between soul-sampling grooves and nervy, ambient dreamscapes.

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Empty Country: Empty Country II [Get Better]

The latest Empty Country album from Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Joseph D’Agostino draws inspiration from his move from Philadelphia to rural New England and the culture shock that came with it. Recorded at R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter’s studio in Kernersville, North Carolina, with John Agnello, Empty Country II comprises an array of “weird mics, amplifiers, and oddball orchestral instruments: organs, Buddhist temple bells, bar chimes, [and] tubular bells,” and includes a song called “David,” a tribute to D’Agostino’s late friend David Berman.

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William Eggleston: 512 [Secretly Canadian]

William Eggleston, one of the United States’ premier photographers, issued his first album, Musik, in 2017. At age 84, he’s back with his second LP, 512. For the new album, Eggleston reunited with producer Tom Lunt, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Amidon and saxophonist Matana Roberts contributed to the project, as did Brian Eno, who’s on “Improvisation.” Revisit Pitchfork’s feature “William Eggleston on the Music That Made Him a Photography Legend.”

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