10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: This Is Lorelei, Alex G, 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 drops available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from This Is Lorelei, Alex G, Haruomi Hosono, 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.)This Is Lorelei: The Singer in My Band [Matador]If you're most familiar with This is Lorelei and Water from Your Eyes’ Nate Amos as a producer, no worries—for many years, so was he. “I kind of landed on this songwriter thing in the most ass-backwards way,” he told the Fader recently. Regardless of how he ended up here, The Singer in My Band establishes the historically puckish Amos as a skillful bard with a knack for twang and earnest evaluation; his dad even has a banjo solo. Populated with picaresque and peripatetic characters who dip in and out of frame, The Singer in My Band takes a keen eye to the literal and s...