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 Neil Young, Tate McRae, James Elkington, Akai Solo, Jerskin Fendrix, and Bory. 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.)
Neil Young: Before and After [Reprise]
For his latest full-length, Before and After, Neil Young perused his catalog and re-recorded songs from across the past five decades of his career. You’ll find new, acoustic renditions of his first Buffalo Springfield track, “Burned,” the previously-unreleased cut “If You Got Love,” the title track from 1978’s Comes a Time, and more. Rather than spacing the tracklist out with the typical pause between songs, Young chose to let each piece blend into one another so that the “music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation,” as he put it in press materials. The 48-minute record was produced by Young and Lou Adler. Before and After follows Young’s release of his “lost” album, Chrome Dreams, which arrived earlier this year.
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Tate McRae: Think Later [RCA]
Canadian pop star Tate McRae has released her second studio album. Think Later features collaborations from producers to the stars Ryan Tedder and Greg Kurstin. It includes the previously released singles “Greedy,” “Exes,” and “Grave.” She recently appeared as a musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live.
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James Elkington: Me Neither [No Quarter]
Guitarist James Elkington’s new album, Me Neither, is comprised of 29 short instrumental guitar tracks. “I’d improvise and record the first thing that came into my head, quickly record something else on top of that, try to add some random elements, edit it and mix it, then stop before it had the chance to get stale,” he said in a statement. Elkington recorded the album at his Nada Studios in Chicago.
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Akai Solo: Only the Strong Remain / Verticality///Singularity [Break All Records]
Akai Solo follows last year’s Spirit Roaming with two new albums, Only the Strong Remain and Verticality///Singularity. The former album is available exclusively on the new Break All Records website, while the latter is also on Bandcamp. Producers on the projects include Earl Sweatshirt, Nicholas Craven, Wavy Bagels, Roper Williams, and Pepper Adams. The Brooklyn rapper previewed his album with music videos for “Waveland,” “All Yours,” and “2 Meters Short (Pyre!).”
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Jerskin Fendrix: Poor Things (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Milan]
Poor Things is the new black comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. The score comes courtesy of Jerskin Fendrix, the British artist who came up in the same Brixton scene as Black Midi and Black Country, New Road.
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Bory: Who’s a Good Boy [Earth Worms]
Songwriter Brenden Ramirez has released his debut album as Bory. Produced by his friend and regular collaborator Mo Troper, Who’s a Good Boy features the previously shared track “End of the World.” Ramirez said that the song “is kind of about avoiding conflict or being non-confrontational, but to a silly degree. Like, ‘Oh, maybe the world will end before I have to confront this person. How convenient would that be?’”
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