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 includes new releases from Brittany Howard, Helado Negro, Little Simz, Madi Diaz, David Nance & Mowed Sound, Itasca, Pouty, Amiture and Mk.Gee. 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.)
Brittany Howard: Now what [Island]
The title of Brittany Howard's second solo album is two-fold, the Alabama Shakes frontperson said in press material: “Everything seems to be getting more extreme and everyone keeps asking, 'What now? What's next?' By the same token, the only constant on this record is that you never know what's going to happen next: Each song is its own aquarium, its own little miniature world built around whatever I was feeling and thinking at that moment.” . Enter her Jaime follow-up to the title track, a “precisely detailed portrait of the singer-songwriter in conflicted contemplation,” as Allison Hussey wrote in her review of the track.
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Helado Negro: Phasor [4AD]
