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 Yaya Bey, Amen Dunes, A. G. Cook, Chief Keef, Sisso & Maiko, Les Savy Fav, Keeley Forsyth, and YhapoJJ. 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.)
Yaya Bey: Ten Fold [Big Dada]
In the lead-up to Ten Fold, Yaya Bey released a string of quiet R&B earworms, including the hypnotically off-kilter “The Evidence” and “Sir Princess Bad Bitch,” a house-heavy refusal of gender conformism. Elsewhere on the album, sultry rumination rubs shoulders with the political satire of songs like “Eric Adams in the Club.” Production on the album comes courtesy of Butcher Brown’s Corey Fonville, Karriem Riggins, Jay Daniel, Exaktly, and Boston Chery. Read the new interview “Yaya Bey Comes Back Around.”
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Amen Dunes: Death Jokes [Sub Pop]
Damon McMahon plotted a sharp left turn for his seventh album as Amen Dunes, Death Jokes, learning piano and immersing himself in electronic composition and collage. The result is a meld of experimental pop, indie-rock, and folk, sometimes noisy and disorientating, others conjuring the crooked largesse of Spiritualized. While the album prods at apocalyptic themes, pristine melodies ring through, as on the plague-themed “I Don’t Mind”—a song, McMahon said in press materials, that “blossomed madly, starting with just the little harpsichords” before adding drum loops and “wonderfully fucked” MIDI guitars.
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A. G. Cook: Britpop [New Alias]
Britpop, A. G. Cook’s first album since shuttering the influential PC Music label, is a three-disc odyssey and sprawling showcase for the UK producer and singer-songwriter’s expandable box of tricks. The first disc represents the past, conjuring “an epitaph to PC Music’s now-classic sound, a shiny playground of boing-splat colors and neon noise,” as Chal Ravens puts it in her review. The second, representing the present, brings Cook to the microphone, in the style of 2020’s Apple, and the finale looks to the future, in the sense that “if someone really doubles down on their personality and commits to that, it opens up an interesting path,” Cook said in press materials.
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Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 [43B]
Chief Keef announced Almighty So 2, the sequel to his October 2013 mixtape, way back in October 2022. He’s been pushing it back ever since, and he even released a collaborative project with Mike Will Made-It, Dirty Nachos, as the solo album languished. That all ends now, as Chief Keef unleashes Almighty So 2, an album that features Tierra Whack, Sexyy Red, Quavo, G Herbo, Lil Gnar, and Ballout.
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Sisso & Maiko: Singeli Ya Maajabu [Nyege Nyege Tapes]
Fresh from their mesmerizing Boiler Room session, Sisso and Maiko have teamed up for their debut album as a duo, a delirium-inducing cocktail of haywire hooks, bubbly sound effects, and radiated synths, all colliding with their trademark hyperspeed beats. Recording together live, the Sisso Records head and producer-keyboardist whirl Afro-house, hip-hop, and footwork into a riotous singeli showdown.
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Les Savy Fav: Oui, LSF [Frenchkiss/The Orchard]
Les Savy Fav went quiet for 14 years before returning in February with “Legendary Tippers,” which the post-hardcore greats swiftly followed with the announcement of Oui, LSF. The comeback record balances their anarchic streak with the growing sentimentality of their middle era. As Evan Rytlewski notes in his review, “It can be odd, hearing the same wildman famed for stripping down to a Speedo on stage and scaling the tallest object within sight earnestly sing lines like, ‘It’s hard to let love in when we’re so scared of getting hurt.’” Odd, but not unwelcome. “When you’ve got a sound this singular, this established, this irreplicable, there’s no shame in letting it ride,” Rytlewski concludes.
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Keeley Forsyth: The Hollow [FatCat]
Keeley Forsyth introduced her third album, The Hollow, with “Horse,” a reimagining of the score to Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse. The ancient foreboding of Mihály Vig’s original score is an uncanny fit for this English singer-songwriter and composer, who unspools drones, moans, spoken word, and haunting melody in compositions that feel at once secretive and ceremonial. Another single, “Turning,” features fellow brooder Colin Stetson on saxophone.
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YhapoJJ: P.S. Fuck You [Simple Stupid]
On P.S. Fuck You, rising rapper YhapoJJ expands his trap offshoot style “jerk rap” to a full-length project for the first time since his breakout from the Alabama underground. Producers FearDorian, Devstacks, and OK feature, as does Atlanta rapper-producer Lil Tony Official on the sensually electric single “SSwerve Geeked.”
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