7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bright Eyes, Fireboy DML, the Killers, 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 Bright Eyes, Fireboy DML, the Killers, Nubya Garcia Bully, H.C. McEntire, and No Joy. 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.)
Bright Eyes: Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was [Dead Oceans]
Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was is Bright Eyes’ first album since 2011’s The People’s Key. In the time between records, Conor Oberst has released several solo LPs (most recently 2017’s Salutations) and Better Oblivion Community Center with Phoebe Bridgers. In his Pitchfork review of the new album, Marc Hogan writes, “Down in the Weeds, recorded before the global pandemic, suits the daily desolation of lockdown.”
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Bright Eyes: Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
Fireboy DML: Apollo [YBNL/EMPIRE]
Fireboy DML is the moniker of Nigerian artist Adedamola Adefolahan. His new record Apollo follows last year’s Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps. “My second studio album, Apollo, is about evolution, growth, love, and the pain that comes with it,” Fireboy said in a statament. “My legacy will not be forgotten.”
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Fireboy DML: Apollo
The Killers: Imploding the Mirage [Island]
It’s been a long road to the Killers’ Imploding the Mirage, with the title getting revealed in November 2019 and the release date being pushed from May until now due to the pandemic. It’s the first Killers album without founding guitarist Dave Keuning, but it does feature production from Shawn Everett and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, as well as contributions from Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Weyes Blood, the War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, k.d. lang, Blake Mills, and Lucius. Read Pitchfork’s track review of “Fire in Bone.”
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The Killers: Imploding the Mirage
Nubya Garcia: SOURCE [Concord Jazz]
Nubya Garcia’s debut full-length for Concord Jazz, SOURCE, is heavily inspired by the British saxophonist’s family history. “The focus of this record is about personal power, collective power, collectivism,” she told Marcus J. Moore for The New York Times. “It’s about my heritage, my ancestry, exploring those places and those stories from my parents and my grandparents.”
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Nubya Garcia: SOURCE
SUGAREGG is singer-songwriter Alicia Bognanno’s first album since she turned Bully into a solo project. Bognanno also opens up about her bipolar II diagnosis for the first time in her music. The album, which follows 2017’s Losing, was engineered by John Congleton.
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Bully: SUGAREGG
H.C. McEntire: Eno Axis [Merge]
Mount Moriah frontwoman H.C. McEntire’s sophomore solo album derives part of its name from the Eno River, a tributary in her home state of North Carolina, where she recorded the album. Like her 2018 debut Lionheart, Eno Axis is a biographical record, spanning psychedelic rock and country gospel and closing with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy.”
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H.C. McEntire: Eno Axis
No Joy: Motherhood [Joyful Noise/Hand Drawn Dracula]
Motherhood is the first new album from No Joy in half a decade. The Canadian project began as a quartet of shoegazers and is now the solo project of frontwoman Jasamine White-Gluz. Returning collaborator Jorge Elbrecht co-produced the record; drummer Jamie Thompson and guitarist Tara McLeod also make appearances.
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No Joy: Motherhood
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