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 projects from Kamaiyah; Guided by Voices; Ingri Høyland; Feeling Figures; Snow Strippers; Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro & Marilyn Mazur; O.; Light in the Attic Records; and the Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian. 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.)
Kamaiyah: Another Summer Night [Keep It Lit]
Oakland rapper Kamaiyah’s new album, Another Summer Night, was announced with the single “Groupies” and follows her recent project with Jay Worthy and Harry Fraud, The Am3rican Dream. It’s also her latest solo release after 2022’s Keep It Lit EP. The new album includes guest spots from Jay Worthy, 03 Greedo, and Hott Boy Zay, as well as production from Linkup, Key Z, and QuakeBeatz. Check out Kamaiyah’s new video for the album’s “Steppin’.”
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Guided by Voices: Nowhere to Go but Up [Guided by Voices Inc.]
The Guided by Voices release cycle continues at a prolific clip with the band’s third full-length of 2023. Nowhere to Go but Up follows Welshpool Frillies and La La Land. The latest from Robert Pollard and the band in their 40th year includes “For the Home” and “The Race Is On, the King Is Dead.” The lineup this time around includes Pollard, Doug Gillard, Bobby Bare Jr., Mark Shue, and Kevin March.
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Ingri Høyland: Ode to Stone [Rhizome]
Copenhagen-based composer and sound artist Ingri Høyland’s new album, Ode to Stone, is a series of seven experimental, collage-heavy compositions. Created with Ida Urd, Sofie Birch, and Lea Gulditte Hestelund, the record was inspired by the works of Ursula K. Le Guin and the overwhelming nature of the North Sea.
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Feeling Figures: Migration Magic [K/Perennial]
Feeling Figures corral outré rock and thrashing post-punk into hectic gasps of jangly noise-pop on their debut LP, Migration Magic, recorded after years gigging around Montreal. Core songwriting duo Zakary Slax and Kay Moon recorded most of the LP live with the band over two nights last December, before throwing in new recordings of songs from their deep catalogs accumulated with various outfits around eastern Canada.
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Snow Strippers: Night Killaz Vol. 1 EP [Surf Gang]
Snow Strippers are the Detroit electronic duo of Tatiana Schwaninger and Graham Perez. Earlier this year, they released April Mixtape 3, which included a feature from Lil Uzi Vert; they followed that with an appearance on the rapper’s album Pink Tape. The new release features seven songs, include the single “Just Your Doll.”
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Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro & Marilyn Mazur: Strands (Live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall) [ECM]
Recorded this February, the live album Strands unites three eminent Danish jazz players, pairing longtime friends and collaborators Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Jakob Bro (guitar) with percussionist and EMC veteran Marilyn Mazur. Of this collaboration, released on the venerable ECM label, Bro said in press materials, “There is air in the music, great freedom and a shared desire to create something that cannot necessarily be explained, but felt.”
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O.: Slice EP [Speedy Wunderground]
After a run of dates supporting the likes of Black Midi and Gilla Band, O. are releasing their debut EP of high-octane, foot-moving instrumentals on Dan Carey’s influential London label, Speedy Wunderground. The duo of baritone saxophonist Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary wrote the title track after a week in Brazil. “One of the things we loved about carnival was the amount of energy and buzz that goes into the music,” the musicians said in press materials. “‘Slice’ is us taking that approach with our own songs.”
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V/A: Light in the Attic & Friends [Light in the Attic]
The beloved archival label Light in the Attic assembled genre- and generation-spanning artists for its cover series of 7″ singles, compiled here alongside a batch of new recordings. Among the picks: Iggy Pop & Zig Zags cover Betty Davis; Ethan and Maya Hawke cover Willie Nelson; Swamp Dogg, John C. Reilly, Jenny Lewis, and Tim Heidecker take on the Louvin Brothers; Mac DeMarco does Haruomi Hosono; Mark Lanegan and Angel Olsen offer separate reimaginings of Karen Dalton; Mary Lattimore covers Hiroshi Yoshimura; and Steve Gunn and Bridget St. John do Michael Chapman.
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The Gurdjieff Ensemble & Levon Eskenian: Zartir [ECM]
Zartir is the third album for ECM from Levon Eskenian’s Gurdjieff Ensemble. The group reimagines the 20th-century Armenian composer Georges I. Gurdjieff’s work through a folk sensibility that Eskenian developed during his youth in Lebanon and study in his Armenia, his current home. The ensemble recorded Zartir live in Yerevan in 2021, in a set mixing sacred dance with ritual music of multiple faiths.
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