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 Popcaan, Meg Baird, Lil Yachty, Mark William Lewis, Ruhail Qaisar, Popstar Benny, the Tubs, Oozing Wound, and George. 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.)
Popcaan: Great Is He [OVO Sound]
Dancehall superstar Popcaan is back with his first full-length since 2020’s Fixtape. Great Is He spans 17 tracks and includes guest spots from Drake (“We Caa Done”), Burna Boy (“Aboboyaa”), Toni-Ann Singh (“Next to Me”), and Chronic Law (“St. Thomas Native”). Popcaan and Drake dropped their joint single earlier this month, along with a music video directed by Theo Skudra that was shot in Turks and Caicos.
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Meg Baird: Furling [Drag City]
Furling is the fourth solo album from singer and multi-instrumentalist Meg Baird, who played hypnotic guitar in Philadelphia’s free-flowing Espers and brought thunderous drums to the psych-rock supergroups Heron Oblivion and Watery Love. Working closely with her Heron Oblivion bandmate and partner, Charlie Saufley, Baird delivers nine entrancing songs fleshed out with percussion and piano, starting with the breezy sweep of “Ashes, Ashes.” Furling arrives eight years after 2015’s Don’t Weigh Down the Light; Baird and Saufley had recorded most of the material before the onset of the pandemic, but production delays prolonged its release.
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