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 Charli XCX, Glorilla, Elucid, Chat Pile, Molina, Dua Saleh, Popstar Benny, Caroline Says, and Tyshawn Sorey. 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.)
Charli XCX: Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat [Atlantic]
Charli XCX’s Brat has already lived many lives, and, now, it is heading into the next. Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat comprises 16 all-star remixes with guests including Bon Iver, Ariana Grande, Caroline Polachek, the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas, Tinashe, and the 1975. It is, in short, a fresh drop of party treats just as the night seemed to be wrapping up. What could be more brat than that?
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Glorilla: Glorious [CMG/Interscope]
Glorilla’s long-awaited debut, Glorious, features a who’s-who of fellow rising stars: Megan Thee Stallion, Sexyy Red, and Latto feature on the “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” rapper’s album, alongside established artists like T-Pain and Kirk Franklin. The 15-track LP, which follows Glorilla’s 2022 EP Anyways, Life’s Great… and 2024 mixtape Ehhthang Ehhthang, includes previously released singles “Hollon” and “T.G.I.F.,” both prime showcases for the Memphis artist’s inimitable, no-nonsense bars. Watch the newly released music video for the Sexyy Red collaboration “Whatchu Know About Me.”
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Elucid: Revelator [Fat Possum]
Almost exactly a year after the revelatory Armand Hammer album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, Elucid returns with Revelator, his solo follow-up to 2022’s I Told Bessie. The New York rapper enlists his Armand Hammer partner billy woods on the single “Instant Transfer” and Creature and Skech185 elsewhere on the LP. In press materials, Elucid described the album’s ethos simply: “I wanted to get as freaky as I could.”
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Chat Pile: Cool World [The Flenser]
Chat Pile launch another noise-rock offensive on Cool World, the follow-up to their obsession-making 2022 debut, God’s Country. The new album, said vocalist Raygun Busch, “covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another.” The result is a record that incorporates bigger, more diffuse hooks from alt-rock and metal while excoriating state violence, colonialism, and international atrocities.
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Molina: When You Wake Up [Escho]
Danish Chilean artist Molina’s debut album, When You Wake Up, moves fluidly between overlayed samples, Broadcast-adjacent arpeggiated synths, and woolly guitar riffs. The producer took up new instruments, such as the guitar and bass, to further expand her horizons. “I hoped that would create some immediate and unintended material that I had no control over,” Molina said in a press release, “which, for me, is being present.” The brain-rattling LP also features guest appearances from electro-pop musician and fellow Dane ML Buch, as well as the artist GB.
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Dua Saleh: I Should Call Them [Ghostly International]
After a string of solo EPs and collaborations with Bon Iver, Amaarae, and Travis Scott, Dua Saleh has released their debut album. On I Should Call Them, the singer, songwriter, poet, and Sex Education actor opens a multiverse of R&B-inflected alternative pop melding romance, environmental anxiety, and social commentary. Guests include Ambré, Gallant, Serpentwithfeet, and Sid Sriram.
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Popstar Benny: Oasis [True Panther]
Atlanta producer Popstar Benny assembles an all-women cast of rising rappers on his new record Oasis, representing what he calls a “female Renaissance happening right now in Atlanta.” Coco & Clair Clair, SadBoi, Vayda, and Woo da Savage are among the guests, playfully scatter-gunning over beats that range from nostalgic R&B grooves to explosive trap.
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Caroline Says: The Lucky One [Western Vinyl]
A lot has changed in the six years since Caroline Says released her last album, 2018’s No Fool Like an Old Fool, but her warm vocals and grounding take on indie-folk remain the same. On The Lucky One, her third full-length LP, Caroline Says sings about fleeting moments, the unbudging fixtures of our hometowns, and how change sneaks its way into our lives, whether we want it to or not. She, once again, recorded everything herself, and it results in the type of crisp, autumnal folk that ushers in the season—as heard on singles “Faded and Golden,” “Dust,” and “Roses.”
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Tyshawn Sorey: The Susceptible Now [Pi]
On the heels of his 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music, Tyshawn Sorey reunites his trio for a new set of interpretations, The Susceptible Now. With pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Raghavan, Sorey takes on four songs including “A Chair in the Sky,” Joni Mitchell’s collaboration with Charles Mingus. For his trio’s version, Sorey took inspiration from a recording of Sue Mingus discussing her husband’s embrace of his own mortality. The new version, said Sorey, is “highly reflective and dream-like, and full of memory. Much of my own music also deals with these very real emotions, and I wanted to include it here.”
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