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 the late Juice WRLD, Leo Bhanji, Yung Kayo, Mark Barrott, Jaeychino, 96 Back, Juanita Stein, Sech, Jakob Bro, RRoxket, and Bedsore. 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.)
Juice WRLD: The Party Never Ends [Grade A Productions/Interscope]
Billed as Juice WRLD’s final posthumous album, The Party Never Ends invites guests including Eminem, Fall Out Boy, the Kid Laroi, Benny Blanco, and, on a new “All Girls All the Same” remix, Nicki Minaj to round out the late rapper’s legacy. A Steve Canon–directed trailer teased the album, set in a virtual reality–loaded future where a grandfather tells his grandchildren about “the legend of Juice WRLD” and why the last album was worth the wait. Make your mind up below.
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Leo Bhanji: Shell EP [Dirty Hit]
On his first release in three years, Leo Bhanji weaves pillow-talk murmurs through pings and twinkles that synthesize emo and electronica, stripping down the sound developed on his Arm’s Length and No Guard EPs. The London singer-songwriter led into the Dirty Hit EP with videos for “27,” “Book 1,” and “Lung.”
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Yung Kayo: Holy Grails [self-released]
After releasing his debut album, DFTK, in 2022 and one of the best songs the year along with it, Yung Kayo comes back with his follow-up project. Holy Grails helps him maintain his status as a Young Thug protégé with more no-holds-barred rap that hurtles through productions bridging trap and cloud rap.
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Mark Barrott: Everything Changes, Nothing Ends [Reflections]
British producer Mark Barrott has lived several lives, from his breakbeat roots through a series of landmark Balearic records including 2016’s Sketches From an Island 2. His latest, the orchestral work Everything Changes, Nothing Ends, is dedicated to his late partner, Sara Kult-Smith, following her death last year. In press materials, he called the album a “story of two lives coming together through a chance meeting on an aeroplane and spending the next 20-plus years together via the craziness of Berlin in the late ’90s to Northern Italy, South America, and, finally, the tranquility of rural Ibiza. The story of how life can change and be snatched away in the blink of an eye.” But, he added, “this is not a sad story. It’s a story of joy, love, grief and gratitude for what was.”
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Jaeychino: Artwork III [PRNLDOCC]
It would take sheer brute strength to stop Jaeychino. Four projects deep in 2024 alone, the Washington, D.C., rapper’s Artwork III collects 17 songs in a brisk 29 minutes. Jaeychino continues to favor digitized, lightweight beats that could be ripped straight from a Yeule or Frou Frou record, only this time he talks about drama in his circles and how he’s been spending his life these past few months. Featured on the project are ST6 JodyBoof, Broadway Rx, SlimeGoon9, and Snow Strippers.
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96 Back: Tender, Exit [Svbkvlt]
Evan Majumdar-Swift composed his sixth album as 96 Back, Tender, Exit, as “a long-form eulogy” to his years living in Manchester. Now relocated to London, the outré electronic producer brings along vocalists Lintd and Terrashotta for the LP but mostly composes instrumental, abrasive, industrial symphonies spangled with melodic rivets and queasy sound design.
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Juanita Stein: The Weightless Hour [Agricultural Audio]
Howling Bells singer Juanita Stein burrows into haunted, folk-infused indie-rock on her fourth solo album. The Australian singer-songwriter produced the LP alongside Depeche Mode and Blur collaborator Ben Hillier, paring the songs down to skeletal forms that can shatter at a moment’s notice. “I’ve finally learned to be OK in space and be loud in my experiences,” she said in press materials.
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The Innocence Mission: Midwinter Swimmers [Thérèse]
Husband-and-wife folk duo the Innocence Mission return with the follow-up to 2020’s See You Tomorrow and the 13th studio album of their storied career: Midwinter Swimmers. Nearly 40 years in, Karen and Don Peris continue to write dreamy folk pop songs with the richness and warmth of a huge mug of cider, the first sip being the singles “This Thread Is a Green Street” and the title track. Front and center across the album is Karen Peris’ evocative, tender falsetto as she tells stories of love, longing, and the lengths we will go to transcend distance in the name of both.
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Sech: Tranki, Todo Pasa [Rimas]
Panamanian reggaeton singer Sech signed to Bad Bunny’s Rimas Entertainment for his follow-up to 2021’s 42. He preceded Tranki, Todo Pasa with “Toy Perdió,” a song about when “you give a lot for a person, and despite that, they do you dirty,” he told Rolling Stone. Latin American singers De La Rose, Elena Rose, and Beéle feature on the new album.
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Jakob Bro: Taking Turns [ECM]
Danish guitarist and jazz composer Jakob Bro got some of the best in the business to join him on his new album as bandleader, Taking Turns. Recorded at New York’s Avatar Studio a decade ago, it features improvisational contributions from Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, and Andrew Cyrille for a mellow, atmospheric, and unhurried session. Led by the songs “Milford Sound” and the moody “Aarhus,” Taking Turns is about “catching a glimpse of a feeling, sketching it down, and then unfolding it as we record,” explained Bro.
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RRoxket: RRoxket [Santa Anna]
Fresh from his feature on YhapoJJ’s latest project, RRoxket cements his position among the great prospects of Atlanta’s underground rap scene on this self-titled record. Its 13 tracks whip past in a haze of dizzy bars, dreamy beats, and rhythmic groans in just under half an hour, with 2sdxrt3all coming along for the ride on “Pizza Box.”
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Bedsore: Dreaming the Strife for Love [20 Buck Spin]
Italian band Bedsore fuse death metal and prog-rock, and their sophomore album, Dreaming the Strife for Love, leans into the production-heavy aspects of those genres by embracing 1970s polish. Inspired by the mysterious renaissance-era book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the four-piece act sings about love as a battlefield, pagan temples, and arcane symbols over thundering drums and bold synths. Over the course of six songs, including the singles “Scars of Light” and “Realm of Eleuterillide,” Bedsore aim for extravagance and fanfare with melodrama to spare.
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