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 Perfume Genius, Destroyer, Lucy Dacus, Aya, YT, Eiko Ishibashi, Deafheaven, Great Grandpa, Ohyung, and Sandwell District. 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.)
Perfume Genius: Glory [Matador]
Following the cryptic, nonlinear compositions of 2022’s Ugly Season, Mike Hadreas returns to a more conventional singer-songwriter mode on his seventh studio album as Perfume Genius. The blistering one-two punch of lead single “It’s a Mirror” and the Aldous Harding duet “No Front Teeth” turns out to be a bit of a misdirect, as Glory is also Hadreas’ quietest, most reserved record in over a decade. That said, he and co-producer Blake Mills still muster up moments of sublime beauty like it’s just another Tuesday; see the tender devotional “Me & Angel,” a maybe-tribute to Celine Dion, and “In a Row,” the rollicking, 11th-hour showstopper that could even unseat “Queen” as his concert-closer of choice.
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Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie [Merge]
