6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Lucinda Williams, Lorenzo Senni, 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 Lucinda Williams, Lorenzo Senni, Klein, Default Genders, altopalo, and WiFiGawd with Tony Seltzer. 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.)
Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels [Highway 20/Thirty Tigers]
Lucinda Williams addresses personal and political tumult on her new album Good Souls Better Angels, as on the Trump-lacerating “Man Without a Soul.” She once again recruited producer Ray Kennedy, with whom she’d last collaborated on her landmark 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
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Lorenzo Senni: Scacco Matto [Warp]
Scacco Matto is Italian producer Lorenzo Senni’s first full-length for Warp. The title is Italian for “check mate” because Senni compared the tracks to a chess game with himself, “trying to bring the music to a certain place and then switch advantageously to another approach.” To that end, Senni also launched an online chess companion for the record.
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Klein: Frozen [self-released]
Frozen is the new album from the South London experimental producer Klein, whose latest fuzzy collages are built from guitar, piano, and vocals. Frozen follows last year’s full-length Lifetime, and, before that, she scored and directed a musical about childhood and UK health policy called Care.
Default Genders: pain mop girl 2020 [self-released]
Jaime Brooks is back with a new LP as Default Genders. pain mop girl 2020 marks Brooks’ third album under the moniker, following main pop girl 2019 from last year. The new release spans 14 tracks and features edits and reworkings from artists like Ada Rook, Snail Cream, Wren Dove Lark, and more.
“I don’t really see it is a remix album,” Brooks wrote on Bandcamp. “It kinda is to main pop girl 2019 what FF7 remake is to the original: It has the same characters, some similar dialogue, and many story beats, but it’s a new thing.”
altopalo: farawayfromeveryoneyouknow [Samedi]
farawayfromeveryoneyouknow marks the sophomore LP from New York experimental quartet altopalo. Upon announcing the new album, the group shared “honey,” which they described as “a love song to Lexapro.” The 14-track record follows the band’s 2018 debut frozenthere and was described by altopalo’s bassist Jesse Bielenberg as a collection of “ruminations on a transitional period.”
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WiFiGawd / Tony Seltzer: Heat Check Vol. 2 [self-released]
Washington D.C. rapper WiFiGawd and New York producer Tony Seltzer team up for their second Heat Check collaboration. The release, which was led by “Legg,” features D.C.’s The Khan and New York’s Wiki on closing track “Ten Toes.”
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