11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Alchemical Sisters, Fine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and More

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 Fine, Ryan Hemsworth , Shabazz Palaces, and more. 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.)

Alchemical Sisters: Alchemical Sisters [Interdimensional Transitions]

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Fine: Jazz Dreams [Escho]

So insular is Fine Glindvad Jensen’s musical realm that one ends up reaching for increasingly tortured anachronisms just to map its periphery: Lana if she fronted the Warm Inventions, Hope Sandoval if she made Honeymoon, a Bond girl who’s also Julee Cruise. That’s not to say Jazz Dreams is unwelcoming; the second solo album from the Copenhagen artist known mononymously as Fine is plush, cozy even, steeped in paisley folk and jangle pop. But spend enough time in this incense-scented, velvet-upholstered lounge, and you may begin to see strange shadows crawling up the walls.

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Ryan Hemsworth: Numbskull [Topshelf]

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Shabazz Palaces: It’s a Style Sport [Sub Pop]

On It’s a Style Sport, his first full-length in six years as Shabazz Palaces, Ishmael Butler slips back into the many guises of his multifarious rap project. Lead single “Ahh World (I Won The Alpha Bet)” sets lucid social commentary to ominous beats that sound like the very dystopian future he rallies listeners to prevent; “Jheri Curl Jump,” meanwhile, is a loquacious love story murmured over jittery electro-funk. Butler’s latest for Sub Pop follows the sibling mini-albums Exotic Birds of Prey and Robed in Rareness. The LP features, among others, Thaddillac, Evan Flory-Barnes, and Kassa Overall, pairing Butler’s own production with that of sometime Shabazz collaborator Erik Blood.

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Josh Johnson: Animative [International Anthem / Nonesuch]

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Hidden in Pieces Live at the Royal Albert Hall [Secretly Canadian]

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Caroline Rose: Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall [Suck]

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Brakence: Marrow [Columbia]

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Sour Widows: Sigil [Julia’s War]

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Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers [Incienso]

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William Basinski: Passing the Cup of Sorrows [Temporary Residence Ltd.]

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Jazz Monroe is a music and culture writer based in London. His work also appears in The Guardian, The Independent, and elsewhere. ... Read More

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