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12 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Miley Cyrus, Ty Segall, and More
All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Miley Cyrus, February 2025 (Kevin Mazur/Peacock via Getty Images) 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 Miley Cyrus; Ty Segall; Caroline; Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko; Matt Berninger; Shura; Yeule; Aesop Rock; Obongjayar; Qasim Naqvi; Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams; and Photographic Memory. 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.) After winning the Record of the Year Grammy for 'Flowers' last year, Miley Cyrus took a logical next step that so often eludes pop stars at the highest level: She leaned into her weirdest, most experimental impulses for an album that panders to nobody but herself. Enter Something Beautiful, a wily pop opus with contributions from a diverse array of indie artists. Executive-produced by Cyrus and Shawn Everett, the sprawling album balances its outré intentions by keeping a handle on the most durable pop influences—'the Beatles and Elvis and David Bowie and Prince like Madonna, these are all pop artists,' Cyrus told Apple Music. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Buy at Rough Trade Possession isn't the usual Ty Segall record as of late. The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks. Segall sounds looser and sunnier on these songs, harkening back to his older sound while allowing the vibrancy of Yoka's imagination—which previously took shape solely in the visual world of Segall's albums Goodbye Bread, Manipulator, and Emotional Mugger—to lead toward low-heat grooves ('Fantastic Tomb') and Bowie-style classic rock ('Possession') when it may. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Caroline's debut album built an outpost at the intersection between post-rock, emo, and campfire folk. Three years later, the follow-up, Caroline 2, expands outward in every direction, pairing scraggy, strummed chorales with heart-on-sleeve mantras and distorted furore. The London octet enlisted Caroline Polachek for lead single 'Tell Me I Never Knew That,' one of many moments that feels like the work of not just a band but a community. 'The first record was a compilation, but this one is a declaration,' as singer-guitarist Jasper Llewellyn put it in press materials. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Ukrainian composer and avant-garde electronic musician Heinali has spent the past few years contributing to the growing trend of fusing electronic music with medieval folk. On Гільдеґарда, the album recorded from his new show with Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, he draws from the work of Hildegard von Bingen to explore further the intersection of those genres. The 12th-century abbess, composer, philosopher, and visionary becomes a thrilling subject when backed by modular synths, Ukrainian folk singing, and high medieval music. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp The National's Matt Berninger made his second solo album, Get Sunk, around his move from Los Angeles to Connecticut. After a period of writers' block—and a sense he was 'drowning' in his own voice—he cracked open a new songwriting idiom, before assembling musicians including Booker T. Jones, Hand Habits' Meg Duffy, National touring member Kyle Resnick, and members of the Walkmen, mostly recording with Berninger in a basement. 'Our heart's are like old wells filled with pennies and worms,' he said of the album's themes. 'I can't resist going down to the bottom of mine to see what else is there. But sometimes you can get yourself stuck.' Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Shura glides between rallying and confessional synth-pop on I Got Too Sad for My Friends, the six-years-coming follow-up to Forevher. The British singer-songwriter applies her lithe pop sensibility to topics such as social anxiety, pandemic isolation, and, as ever, the tumult of love on the Luke Smith–produced album, which features guest turns from Cassandra Jenkins, Helado Negro, and Becca Mancari. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade In a shapeshifter career, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun is Yeule's most disarming transformation yet. Having mastered hyperpop heaters and meteoric alt-rock, the singer-producer-songwriter summons trip-hop ooze and industrial sleaze on an album that is both a total reinvention and, on the synth-pop-grunge hybrid of songs like 'Eko,' a consolidation of the adventuring spirit that has made Yeule one of the defining artists of the decade. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade On Black Hole Superette, Aesop Rock presents the late-night convenience store as a symbol of the modern condition. The Long Island veteran—assisted by likeminded rappers Lupe Fiasco, Homeboy Sandman, Open Mike Eagle, billy woods, and Elucid—invites us into surreal lyrical mazes as he stumbles, half-asleep, through a vortex of consumerism and encroaching tech. Watch the hallucinatory 'Checkers' video for a window into the dreamworld. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Paradise Now is a renewed mission statement from Obongjayar, the Nigerian musician whose hyperactive fusion of Afrobeat, soul, and hip-hop has made him a sensation in his adopted hometown of London. The album adds volleys of synth-punk and summery electropop to his eclectic palate, explored with collaborators including producer Kwes Darko, Fontaines D.C.'s Carlos O'Connell, and, on 'Talk Olympics,' Little Simz. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Dawn of Midi drummer Qasim Naqvi flexes his skills as a composer on his latest album for Erased Tapes, Endling. Haunted by a phrase from a dream his wife had one night—'God docks at death harbor'—the Pakistani American artist conceived of a 'tone poem' about, he's said, 'the last human on the planet—an endling, traversing a world centuries into the future. A world decayed and mutated into a strange amalgam of the natural and artificial.' Moor Mother features on the undulating ambient refractions of 'Power Down the Heart.' Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade New York rapper Rome Streetz and superstar producer Conductor Williams unite for their debut collaborative album in Trainspotting. Williams' freewheeling production snips hooks from jazz and gospel while his collaborator knots together dense verses on industry greed on the Tribe-referencing 'Rule 4080,' expanding the vintage style the pair explored on Rome Streetz's 2022 album, Kiss the Ring. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Photographic Memory is the solo project of Los Angeles producer, singer, and songwriter Max Epstein. I Look at Her and Light Goes All Through Me, his third album, shares some of the maximalist sensibilities of collaborators like Militarie Gun and Jane Remover, neutralizing lashings of overdriven excess with oases of introspective, melodic emo and shoegaze. Guests include Winter and Wisp. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
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11 New Albums to Stream Today
The post 11 New Albums to Stream Today appeared first on Consequence. It's New Music Friday, and the weekend brings an exciting batch of new albums to stream. Miley Cyrus is back with her highly-conceptual, Pink Floyd-inspired visual album Something Beautiful, while The National's Matt Berninger returns for his second solo effort, Get Sunk. Plus, there's new releases from yeule, Garbage, and Mt. Joy, as well as a collaborative project between Low's Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles. Check out our list of the best new albums to stream today. After sharing the experimental White Roses, My God last year, Low's Alan Sparhawk returns today with a collaborative album made with the folk band Trampled by Turtles. It's a fitting combination, as both acts emerged from the Duluth, Minnesota area and have shared the stage together dozens of times over the years. Stream on , , or | Buy on Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller returns to music with Cover the Mirrors, his first project since the tragic passing of his son Dorian Zev in 2023. The new album, releasing on Dorian's 19th birthday, is a raw, emotional journey through grief and loss, with support from Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman, The Flaming Lips, and Coconut Records. Kweller broke down the origins of lead single 'Optimystic' for Consequence here. Stream on , , or | Buy on Vinyl/CD Three years removed their self-titled debut album, London eight-piece band Caroline have returned with the aptly-named Caroline 2. To keep things as 'Caroline' as possible, the group recruited Caroline Polachek for lead single 'Tell me I never knew that' and included a song on the album called 'Coldplay cover' that, in fact, is not a Coldplay cover. Stream on , , or Spotify | Buy on While Garbage are often masters at depicting darkness, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light searches for a more uplifting message. 'This record is about what it means to be alive, and about what it means to face your imminent destruction,' said the band's Shirley Manson. 'It's hopeful. It's very tender towards what it means to be a human being.' They're also supporting the album with their first headlining North American tour in seven years. Stream on , , or | Buy on The National frontman Matt Berninger is back with his sophomore solo album Get Sunk, a rich, sorrowful exploration of the human experience. The single 'Bonnet of Pins' showcases Berninger's knack for storytelling, offering a taste of the hero's journey to the self that Berninger delivers on Get Sunk. Stream on , , or | Buy on Miley Cyrus returns again with Something Beautiful, her ninth studio album. The project was inspired by Pink Floyd's The Wall and high fashion, and features an accompanying music video for each song. Plus, she recruited some exciting collaborators for the album, including Shawn Everett, Brittany Howard, Alvvays' Molly Rankin and Alec O'Hanely, Model/Actriz's Cole Haden, BJ Burton, Ryan Beatty, and many more. Stream on , , or | Buy on The five-piece indie folk and rock outfit Mt. Joy is back with their fourth studio album Hope We Have Fun. The project is a reflection of the fast-paced, chaotic lifestyle that comes with being an artist, which is captured in lead single 'More More More.' They're also heading out on a major 2025 tour in support of the album. Stream on , , or | Buy on Oakland-based rapper and producer Ovrkast. returns with his latest collection of sample-based, jazz-inspired hip-hop. On the newly released WHILE THE IRON IS HOT, he's joined by Vince Staples, MAVI, Samara Cyn, Malaya, and his upcoming tour mate Saba. Stream on , , or This year marks a decade since the release of Sufjan Stevens' beloved, personal album Carrie and Lowell. In honor of the milestone, Asthmatic Kitty is releasing a 10th anniversary edition with 40 minutes of bonus material from the era, including demos for songs like 'Death With Dignity,' 'Should Have Known Better,' and 'The Only Thing.' Read our review for the original record here. Stream on , , or | Buy on Indie rocker Ty Segall continues his prolific output of music with his 16th album Possession, a cinematic romp through the American landscape. The lead single 'Fantastic Tomb' is a tale about an attempted home burglary, backed by a jaunty guitar and a saxophone played by Mikal Cronin. Possession sees Segall once again collaborating with filmmaker Matt Yoka, who brings another level to the narrative arc of the album. Stream on , , or | Buy on Experimental artist yeule is back with Evangelic Girl is a Gun, their fourth full-length project and the follow-up to 2023's acclaimed Softscars. They've already supported the release with a standout appearance on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney this month, where they gave a highly-choreographed performance of lead single 'Skullcrusher.' Stream on , , or | Buy on Popular Posts Billy Joel Diagnosed with Brain Disorder, Cancels All Upcoming Tour Dates Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest Freddie Mercury's Alleged Child Revealed in New Biography David Lynch's Personal Archive Going Up for Auction Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence Are Now In-Laws Dave Mustaine: Metallica Stole "Enter Sandman" Riff from Another Band Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
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Machine Gun Kelly's "Cliché" has TikTok in a dance frenzy
Machine Gun Kelly is making his case for the song of the summer. Why it matters: The Cleveland entertainer's latest single, "Cliché," made the cover of Spotify's New Music Friday playlist last week and has launched a social media trend. It could soon join songs like "Bad Things" and "My Ex's Best Friend" as one of MGK's biggest hits to date. The intrigue:"Cliché" takes its inspiration from the glory days of MTV's "Total Request Live." The music video is loaded with intentionally corny lyrics, boy band dance moves and a closing rain sequence the "Step Up" movie franchise would be proud of. What they're saying:""If 'TRL' in the nineties was still going … it would be up there," Machine Gun Kelly said while walking the red carpet at Sunday's American Music Awards. The 35-year-old, who just had a baby with actress Megan Fox, will continue his nostalgia trip by performing at the Warped Tour 30th anniversary shows in Washington, D.C. next month and Orlando in November.
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23-05-2025
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8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Stereolab, Smerz, and More
All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Stereolab, photo by Joe Dilworth 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 projects from Stereolab, Smerz, Sparks, Sophia Kennedy, MSPaint, These New Puritans, Home Is Where, and Lindstrøm. 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.) In the 15 years since their last proper album, Stereolab have kept busy with ongoing reunion tours and a reissue program to rival that of the Beatles. Now, the maestros of kosmische indie-pop have come to reclaim their crown, returning to the studio with 13 originals that whirr and whizz with the same analog-chanson joy that has made them a perennial inspiration to alternative pop tinkerers for decades. Read Ben Cardew's review of Instant Holograms on Metal Film. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Four years after debuting with the minimalist mission statement Believer, Norwegian duo Smerz return with a new batch of retrofuturist warehouse pop on second album Big City Life. Set to stark beats, the grayscale record laces daydreamy monologues with wisps of satiny R&B and occasional, eerie piano lines that seem to have wandered in from a Shostakovich recital. The result is an exercise in controlled chaos, full of moments of plainspoken wonder. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Sparks are still flying high on Mad!, the latest album of hare-brained confections from the duo celebrated in Edgar Wright's Sparks Brothers documentary. Maverick siblings Ron and Russel Mael sharpen their knives for a playful evisceration of topics including banter and the rise of influencers on the follow-up to The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte, in a series of pop operettas that remind us of all the silliest ways one can put melodic genius to use. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Squeeze Me is the latest from Baltimore-born artist Sophia Kennedy, who splits her time between Berlin and Hamburg. The 10-song LP follows her 2021 release, Monsters, and her collaborations with DJ Koze; first on 2023's 'Wespennest' and again on this year's 'Der Fall' and 'Die Gondel.' Kennedy has shared a handful of singles from her new, more stripped-back record, including 'Rodeo,' 'Hot Match,' and 'Imaginary Friend.' Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade MSPaint's new five-track EP, No Separation, follows the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, synth-punk group's 2023 debut, Post-American. No Separation was produced by Julian Cashwan Pratt and Harlan Steel of New York hardcore band Show Me the Body. MSPaint announced the new record with their single 'Angel,' which arrived with a dystopian music video starring director Alex Thiel. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp These New Puritans became an overnight cult phenomenon with their 2010 album Hidden, an album that paired Jack Barnett's murmured mantras and medieval compositions with his brother George's militant beats. Their albums since have taken that premise along wildly divergent paths, taking Talk Talk and Depeche Mode textures to their logical end point in Crooked Wing. The culminating album, led by the Caroline Polachek–assisted 'Industrial Love Song,' is by turns epic, quiet, gorgeous, and ungodly. Or, as George Barnett put it more simply in press materials, 'Jack on a piano, me smashing the living daylights out of some drums.' Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Home Is Where broke out making athletic, anthemic hardcore, and have only limbered up with time. Hunting Season, the emo-rock outfit's third album and the follow-up to 2023's The Whaler, is looser and shaggier than its predecessors, written in a period when frontwoman Bea MacDonald 'was homesick and Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers' first record specifically sounded like home.' Fear not: The songs still find their moments to thrash, resulting in an album that feels like embarking on a freewheeling road trip while your companion waves a machete out the window. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade For the follow-up to 2023's Everyone Else Is a Stranger, Lindstrøm relaunched the Feedelity label that the Norwegian producer founded back in 2003. He marks the occasion with a reset to the bubbly euphoria explored during his ascent. Lead single 'Cirkl,' he said in press materials, 'taps into the same energy I explored with those early releases, while also pushing into new sounds and ideas. It's minimal in structure, with a warm and uplifting energy.' Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
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23-05-2025
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Watch: MGK releases 'Cliche,' music video Friday
1 of 5 | MGK, formerly Machine Gun Kelly, attends the annual Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in 2022. He released new music Friday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo May 23 (UPI) -- MGK, formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly, is back with new music. The music artist, 35, released the song "Cliche" and a music video on Friday. "Tell me would you wait for me? Baby I'm a rolling stone. I got a lot of right in me, but I don't want to say this wrong," he sings. "Tell me would you stay with me? Maybe we could make this home. You should run away with me, even if you're better off alone." The video shows him dancing in a car wash, on the back of a moving truck and in a motel parking lot. MGK posted a video to Instagram that show him reacting to seeing himself on Spotify's New Music Friday playlist cover. "For the first time in my career," he captioned the reaction video. Teddy Swims offered his support in the comment section, writing, "I love you. You deserve everything good." The singer released an expanded version of his 2019 album Hotel Diablo in 2024, called Floor 13 Edition.
