With so much good music released all the time, it can be difficult to determine what to listen to first. Every week Pitchfork offers a number of important new releases for streaming services. This week it features new albums, projects and EPs from Palberta, Caroline Shaw, Logic1000, Peewee Longway and Cassius Jay, Mason Lindahl, Lande Hect and Asphyx. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All of the publications featured here are independently selected by our editors. However, if you buy something through our affiliate links, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Palberta:: Palberta5000 [Wharf Cat]
New Yorkers Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg and Nina Ryser are back with their 2018 successor from Roach Goin ‘Down. Palberta recorded their new album with Matt Labozza in his studio in Peekskill, New York.
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Caroline Shaw:: Narrow sea [Nonesuch]
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw’s second Nonesuch album contains two works she composed for the New York Ensemble Sō Percussion: the five-part Narrow Sea and a 2012 piece entitled Taxidermy. Shaw emphasized the issue of water and found herself back home. He pulled the Narrow Sea lyrics from a songbook of spiritual music called The Sacred Harp. Soprano Dawn Upshaw and pianist Gilbert Kalish also play in Narrow Sea.
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