With so much good music coming out all the time, it can be hard to decide what to listen to first. Each week, Pitchfork offers a roundup of major new releases available on streaming services. This week's batch features new work from Childish Gambino, Los Campesinos!, Lava La Rue, Denzel Curry, Total Blue, JT, Blk Odyssy and Gum & Ambrose Kenny-Smith. 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 publishers. However, when you purchase something through our affiliate links, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Childish Gambino: Bando Stone and the New World [RCA]
It's the end of Childish Gambino as we know him. For years, Donald Glover has been saying he'd take the moniker, which was pulled from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator, and now it's finally happening as the rapper-singer releases new album. Bando Stone and the New World. “It was really like, 'Oh, it's over,'” Glover recently told Reggie Ugwu about The New York Times. “It is not satisfactory. And I just felt like I didn't need to build that way anymore.” Glover is joined on the Gambino finale by Jorja Smith and Amaarae (on the single “In the Night”), Yeat, Chlöe, producers Ludwig Göransson, Michael Uzowuru and Max Martin and more.
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Los Campesinos!: All hell [Heart Swells]
