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 Jessie Ware, the National, Indigo de Souza, Avalon Emerson & the Charm, Dazegxd & Quinn, Lisa/Liza, JFDR, and Baby Rose. 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.)
Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good! [Interscope]
Jessie Ware reaffirmed her seat on the disco-revival throne with “Pearls,” a single from her fifth album, That! Feels Good!, and sashayed deeper into the dancefloor with piano house song “Free Yourself.” She has framed the album as a “conversation” with her LGBTQ+ fans: “They wanted me to be this kind of dominatrix commander to them,” she told Pitchfork. “They relished it, and they willed it on. So I was like, OK, I’ll give you a bit more of that!” Read more in the feature “Jessie Ware’s Pleasure Principle.”
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The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein [4AD]
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