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 billy woods & Kenny Segal, the Smashing Pumpkins, Fred Again.. & Brian Eno, Westerman, Destroy Lonely, Beta Librae, Felicita, Conway the Machine, Greg Mendez, and Cloth. 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.)
billy woods & Kenny Segal: Maps [Backwoodz Studioz]
Maps is a new album from New York rapper billy woods and Los Angeles producer Kenny Segal. It’s ostensibly an album about the road. “Neither of us wanted to make Hiding Places 2,” woods said in a statement. “We needed to go on other journeys, artistic and otherwise, to come back and do something fresh.” The album features Danny Brown, Elucid (of Armand Hammer), Samuel T. Herring (of Future Islands), Shabaka Hutchings, Quelle Chris, Aesop Rock, Benjamin Booker, and Shrapknel. Read Pitchfork’s Best New Track review of the single “FaceTime.”
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The Smashing Pumpkins: Atum [Martha’s Music]
