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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 Snocaps; Florence and the Machine; KeiyaA; Daniel Avery; Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo; Claire Rosay; Big L; Anna von Hausswolff; the Belair Lip Bombs; Shlohmo; and Ship Sket. 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.) Snocaps: Snocaps [Anti-] Before breaking out with Waxahatchee and Swearin’, respectively, twin sisters Katie and Alison Crutchfield made music together in P.S. Eliot. That band broke up in the early 2010s, but the Crutchfields recently felt the urge to make music together again. The result is a self-titled album from the new band Snocaps. Backing the twins on the surprise 13-track record are Tigers Blood collaborator MJ Lenderman and longtime Waxahatchee producer Brad Cook. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Florence and the Machine: Everybody Scream [Republic] While touring behind her last album, Dance Fever, Florence Welch was hospitalized for an ectopic miscarriage; the singer channeled the effects of that life-altering, traumatic event into work for a follow-up. For the resulting Everybody Scream, Welch dove into medieval and renaissance studies and the history of witchcraft and mysticism, shrouding her characteristically vivid chamber pop with even deeper pathos and psychodrama. Welch worked on the new Florence and the Machine LP with Idles’ Mark Bowen, Danny L Harle, the National’s Aaron Dessner, and Mitski, who helped pen the title track. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Buy at Rough Trade KeiyaA: Hooke’s Law [XL] KeiyaA’s second studio album is named after the law of elasticity, which states that the extension of a spring is directly proportional to the load applied to it. The Chicago-born, New York–based singer and producer puts that law to the test with an expansive, head-spinning collage of R&B, electronic, jazz, and experimental music that threatens to uncoil at any minute. KeiyaA wrote, recorded, and produced the new material over the past five years, playing every instrument on the album, with one feature from rapper Rahrah Gabor. Hooke’s Law is “an album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care,“ KeiyaA explained in press materials. “It’s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It’s more of a cycle, a spiral—it’s Hooke’s law.” Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo: In the Earth Again [Computer Students] Between Hayden Pedigo’s beatific guitar symphonies and Chat Pile’s chthonic sludge, the unlikely collaborative album In the Earth Again is a match made in both heaven and hell. More than anything, it is a match made in Oklahoma City, home of the DIY scene that brought the fingerpicking composer and noise-rock quartet together. The musicians interpret rural America through folk and metal and with a general sense of apocalypse, on an album that confronts the abyss before concluding on a sanguine note with the quiet, gleaming beauty “A Tear for Lucas.” Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Big L: Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King [Mass Appeal] Mass Appeal has spent 2025 celebrating legends of New York hip-hop. There have been new albums from Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, and, now, the late Harlem rapper Big L. Harlem’s Finest: Return of the King is the first posthumous studio album from the horrorcore progenitor since 2011’s The Danger Zone, and it features Jay-Z, Method Man, Joey Bada$$, Joe Budden, the late Mac Miller, and others. Nas, who appears on lead single “U Aint Gotta Chance,” recently reflected on Big L’s legacy, telling Rolling Stone, “Big L was always ahead of his time. There’s some quotes out there from me about Big L, like how terrifyingly good that he was that made me have to step up my game.” He added, “This album will remind you that it’s not about hype, it’s about art.” Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Buy at Rough Trade The Belair Lip Bombs: Again [Third Man] The Belair Lip Bombs’ particular strain of power-pop and indie-rock caught the ears of Third Man Records, which reissued the Australian group’s 2023 debut, Lush Life, after its initial release via Melbourne’s Cousin Will Records. The band—featuring vocalist Maisie Everett, guitarist Mike Bradvica, bassist Jimmy Droughton, and drummer Daniel “Dev” Devlin—now returns with its first original album for Jack White’s label. The Belair Lip Bombs produced Again with Nao Anzai and Joe White and previewed it with “Hey You,” “Don’t Let Them Tell You (It’s Fair),” and “Back of My Hand.” Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Shlohmo: Repulsor [R&R] Two decades after his emergence in the Los Angeles beat scene—and six years since his last studio album, The End—Shlohmo is back to mind-melting, maniacally distorted business with Repulsor. The experimental producer has stockpiled an arsenal of abrasive anthems for his comeback, alternating industrial, metal, and emo with playful, woozy beats in a way that slots alongside the more confrontational end of hyperpop. Fittingly, Salem and Corbin both feature.
