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 Flying Lotus, Cate Le Bon, YG, Steve Lacy, Faye Webster, and Mavis Staples. 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 may earn an affiliate commission.)
Flying Lotus: Flamagra [Warp]
Flying Lotus’ first studio LP in five years features collaborations with Solange, Denzel Curry, Thundercat, George Clinton, Little Dragon, and others. Ahead of the new album, FlyLo shared music videos for Flamagra tracks “Fire Is Coming” (featuring David Lynch) and “More” (with Anderson .Paak). Flamagra is the follow-up to FlyLo’s 2014 LP You’re Dead!
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Cate Le Bon: Reward [Mexican Summer]
Reward is Cate Le Bon’s first solo album since 2016’s Crab Day. Prior to the record, Le Bon shared the tracks “Daylight Matters,” “Home to You,” and “The Light.” In between solo releases, Le Bon teamed up with White Fence’s Tim Presley for Hippo Lite—their sophomore album as DRINKS. Le Bon also co-produced Deerhunter’s most recent LP, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Cate Le Bon is playing this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, which takes place from July 19-21 at Chicago’s Union Park. Tickets are available now.
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YG: 4REAL 4REAL [Def Jam]
4REAL 4REAL is the fourth studio LP from Compton rapper YG. The record was meant to drop April 12, but YG delayed its release out of respect for his friend and collaborator, the late Nipsey Hussle, who was shot dead at the age of 33 in April. 4REAL 4REAL is the follow-up to YG’s 2018 record STAY DANGEROUS.
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Steve Lacy: Apollo XXI [3QTR]
Steve Lacy has had a busy couple of years. In 2018, he released Hive Mind with his band the Internet. Earlier this year, he featured on Vampire Weekend’s recent LP Father of the Bride. Now, Lacy has shared Apollo XXI, his proper debut album. It’s his second solo collection, folowing 2017’s Steve Lacy’s Demo.
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Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Club [Secretly Canadian]
Atlanta Millionaires Club is singer/songwriter Faye Webster’s first full-length for Secretly Canadian. It includes a collaboration with Father on “Flowers.” Read Pitchfork’s Rising feature “Get to Know Faye Webster, Who Makes Retro R&B for Homebodies.”
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Mavis Staples: We Get By [ANTI-]
Mavis Staples’s latest was written and produced by Ben Harper, marking their first full-length collaboration. We Get By was recorded live at Henson Studio in Hollywood. The album’s cover features a 1960s photograph titled “Outside Looking In” by Gordon Parks, the first African American staff photographer and writer for Life magazine. Mavis Staples is also playing this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.
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