With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of serious new releases obtainable on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Drake, Bartees Unusual, Fragrance Genius, Yaya Bey, Anteloper, John Luther Adams, Tim Bernardes, and Flasher. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday publication to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. Whenever you purchase one thing via our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Drake: Truthfully, Nevermind [OVO Sound/Republic]
Drake took everyone without warning final evening when he introduced that his subsequent album was on the best way. The rapper dropped his seventh solo studio LP, Truthfully, Nevermind, about six hours later. The follow-up to final 12 months’s Licensed Lover Boy was govt produced by Drake, longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib, Drake’s supervisor Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre, and Grammy winner Black Espresso. The 14-track document additionally options intensive manufacturing from Black Espresso, Gordo, Alex Lustig, and Beau Nox. Congolese singer Mukengerwa “Tresor” Riziki seems as a further vocalist on “Currents,” “Down Hill,” and “Tie That Binds.” 21 Savage is the album’s sole credited featured artist, showing on the closing “Jimmy Cooks.”
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