With so much great music being released all the time, it can be difficult to know what to listen to first. Each week, Pitchfork provides an overview of the significant new releases available on the streaming service. This week’s batch includes Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Dry Cleaning, Armani Caesar, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Frankie Cosmos, Hagop Chaparian, Roche’s New His Album and His EP.subscribe to pitchfork new music friday newsletter To receive our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. However, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission when you purchase something through an affiliate link.)
Taylor Swift: midnight [Republic]
After two woody albums with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift’s latest LP tells “13 stories of sleepless nights scattered around.” [her] life. ” Antonov returns to co-producing and co-writing Evermore The follow-up also includes contributions from Lana Del Rey, Zoe Kravitz, Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn (under the pseudonym William Bowery), Sam Dew, and Soundwave. There were no singles before the album.
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arctic monkeys: car [Domino]
Four years after their sharp left turn Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Arctic Monkeys regrouped for another confounding and divisive LP. Art House Cinematic Ballad “i wish i had a mirror ballthe band’s seventh album, pivots between orchestral pop and raucous funk (“i’m not where i think i am”), Studio Rat’s sophistypop, provocative rock singalongs (“body paint”), all with intoxicatingly witty and cryptic lyrics. “car is an album of love, longing and doubt,” writes Pitchfork’s Matthew Strauss in his book. review“Obfuscation helps reinforce the core belief that the simplest truths are the hardest to discover.”
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