Pitchfork has recommended 14 new albums available on streaming services, featuring artists like American Football, Tori Amos, and Zara Larsson. The weekly roundup covers diverse genres from emo and post-rock to country and electronic. Editors selected the releases independently, with affiliate links for purchases.
Pitchfork's latest New Music Friday guide spotlights significant releases, including American Football's LP4 on Polyvinyl. The Midwest emo veterans explore post-rock, shoegaze, and math territory on their fourth record. Vocalist Mike Kinsella murmurs on lead single “Bad Moons,” “I'm just two little boys in a trench coat with plastic knives—I'm scared, and I don’t want to grow up.” The album is available on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, and Rough Trade. Tori Amos releases her 18th studio album, In Times of Dragons, via Universal/Fontana. The 17-track set confronts greed and individualism in modern society, with Amos using harpsichord for the first time since 1996’s Boys for Pele. Other highlights include Hekt's debut Forever on Numbers, blending left-field pop from Copenhagen, and Ana Roxanne's lucid Poem 1 on Kranky, channeling drone into balladry. Zara Larsson follows her 2025 hit “Midnight Sun” with the remix album Midnight Sun: Girls Trip on Sommer House/Epic, featuring Robyn, Shakira, Tyla, JT, Eli, and Malibu. Isaiah Rashad drops It’s Been Awful on TDE/Warner, his first LP in five years, with lead single “Same Sh!t” and guests like Dominic Fike, Julian Sintonia, and SZA. Rashad noted in press materials, “I wanted to ensure there was something that spoke directly to where I’m from, for my older brothers, for that core audience.” Kacey Musgraves' Middle of Nowhere on Lost Highway draws from her Texas hometown, featuring Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov. Additional picks encompass Hiss Golden Messenger's I’m People on Chrysalis, Lip Critic's concept album Theft World on Partisan, Kneecap's Fenian on Heavenly, Seefeel's Sol.Hz on Warp, Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer's requiems for Gaza on Silver Current Records, Jump Source's Fold on NAFF, and Safety Trance's Sacrificio on Romantico/Mad Decent.