8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Caroline Polachek, Skrillex, Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, and More
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 Caroline Polachek, Skrillex, Avey Tare, Screaming Females, Nappy Nina, Runnner, Mioclono, and Hellripper. 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.)
Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You [Perpetual Novice]
Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, Caroline Polachek’s follow-up to 2019’s Pang is her definitive statement as a solo artist, adding puckish details and far-flung musical cues—including bagpipes on “Blood and Butter”—to her experimental pop. Her oddly addictive anthem “Bunny Is a Rider” features, as do many other post-Pang singles. On “Fly to You,” the former Chairlift singer brings along Grimes and Dido for the ride; elsewhere, the sound palette calls to mind flamenco, trip-hop, and trance. The cumulative effect, writes Cat Zhang in her review, is “like staring up at a giant fresco, the detail so exquisite you can’t decide where to rest your eyes first.”
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Skrillex: Quest for Fire [Owsla/Atlantic]
