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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 Sampha, Blink-182, Jane Remover, Titanic, Lost Girls, Maria BC, Galya Bisengalieva, Pink Navel & Kenny Segal, and Katie von Schleicher. 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.)
Sampha: Lahai [Young]
Years after Sampha released his debut album, the Mercury Prize–winning Process, he’s returned with the follow-up, Lahai. The new album features contributions from Yaeji, Léa Sen, Sheila Maurice-Grey of Kokoroko, Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson of Black Midi, Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves, El Guincho, and Kwake Bass. Read Pitchfork’s review of “Spirit 2.0,” named Best New Track.
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Blink-182: One More Time… [Columbia]
For the first time in almost 15 years, Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and Tom DeLonge have released an album together as Blink-182. One More Time… follows a pair of records that Hoppus and Barker recorded with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba: 2016’s California and 2019’s Nine. The new album touches on personal hardships the band members faced prior to reuniting, including Hoppus’ cancer treatment and Barker surviving a plane crash. Blink-182’s live reunion kicked off at this year’s Coachella, before they embarked on a big reunion tour.
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Jane Remover: Census Designated [DeadAir]
Just about two years ago, digicore pioneer Jane Remover broke through with her official debut, Frailty. For her follow-up, Census Designated, she’s shifted toward a sound that incorporates shoegaze, emo, and more. Describing the new album in his Pitchfork review, Kieran Press-Reynolds writes, “Census Designated hits like a flash flood, following moments of dreamy calm with clattering downpours. It’s a feverish mutation of shoegaze and bedroom pop, anchored by [Jane Remover’s] skills as a producer for sculpting layers that sparkle and mutate.”
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Titanic: Vidrio [Unheard of Hope]
Mabe Fratti and Hector Tosta are Titanic, and Vidrio is their new album. They recorded the LP at studios across their shared hometown of Mexico City. It features music, according to Fratti, born “from the feeling of being judged, with tied hands, and the anger that gets stuck inside” or “not knowing what to want and trying to recognize what it is that you like.”
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Lost Girls: Selvutsletter [Smalltown Supersound]
Selvutsletter is the second album from Jenny Hval’s collaborative project with Håvard Volden, Lost Girls, following 2021 debut Menneskekollektivet. The band translates the new album’s title as “self-effacer: Someone who tries to erase themselves. Someone who is cleaning out themselves. Performing exorcism. Or perhaps just getting older, less interested in their own present self.”
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Maria BC: Spike Field [Sacred Bones]
Maria BC’s follow-up to 2022’s Hyaline is their first full-length with Sacred Bones. Spike Field includes the tracks “Amber” and “Watcher.” Per the album’s announcement, they looked to create a record focusing on feelings of shame they experience when they look back at their past. “I had a very strong tendency to want to destroy any previous version of me,” they said in a statement. “I wanted to erase the memories of anyone who knew me more than a year ago. It’s the effect of shame.”
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Galya Bisengalieva: Polygon [One Little Independent]
Kazakh British artist Galya Bisengalieva has released the follow-up to her 2020 debut album, Aralkum. The new LP, Polygon, is themed around the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan, which was the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear testing zone for decades. The songs are named after villages, towns, and landmarks from within the Polygon. “Balapan,” for example, is named after an underground facility used to test explosions. “It’s a sarcastic track that seems happy at first glance,” Bisengalieva said in a statement.
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Pink Navel & Kenny Segal: How to Capture Playful [Ruby Yacht]
The latest effort from Kenny Segal, the Los Angeles producer behind one of the best rap albums of 2023, pairs him with Massachusetts’ Pink Navel. The musicians previewed their new full-length, How to Capture Playful, with “Present Vendor” and “Memory Card.” Guests on the album include R.A.P. Ferreira, Sha Ray, Randal Bravery, and SB the Moor.
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Katie von Schleicher: A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night [Sipsman]
The latest album from singer-songwriter Katie von Schleicher borrows its title from Harry Nilsson. And what does A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night have that Nilsson’s original didn’t? How about an overt reference to Dwayne Johnson, for starters, or, for that matter, an accompanying zine called Dwayne Johnson in Review: A Complete Critical Perspective on the Rock in Hollywood Made by His Peers and Bosses. Von Schleicher made her new album with longtime collaborator Sam Owens.
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