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 and projects from Laura Mvula, G Herbo, Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, Surf Gang, and YN Jay. 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.)
Laura Mvula: Pink Noise [Atlantic]
Pink Noise is the third full-length record from British R&B singer Laura Mvula, following 2016’s The Dreaming Room and the 1/f EP she released in March. It’s also her first album for Atlantic. Mvula shared “Church Girl” when she announced the album in March, chasing it with “Safe Passage” and “Got Me.”
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G Herbo: 25 [Machine Entertainment Group]
25, the new album from drill rapper G Herbo, arrives a little more than a year after its predecessor, PTSD. Since then, G Herbo has launched a mental health initiative for Black youth and released the singles “Really Like That” and “Break Yoself.” In December, he released the song “Statement,” on which he addressed federal fraud charges levied against him.
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