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 MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt with Surf Gang, Sunn 0))), Bon Iver, and Los Thuthanaka. 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.)
MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and Surf Gang: Pompeii // Utility [10k]
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It was only a matter of time. MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt, and Surf Gang’s first official joint tape has been simmering for years; today, it finally materialized in full 33-track, double-album form. Pompeii // Utility is Speakerboxx/The Love Below done up 10K style—a sharply observed, lushly illustrated back-to-back that highlights both rappers’ idiosyncrasies without prohibiting them from sliding on the groove they share. Rooted in African diasporic tradition and modern Black community-building, Pompeii // Utility goes way back in many ways—even the album’s cover art features two works crafted by Earl’s childhood friend, the sculptor Sharif Farrag.
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Los Thuthanaka: Waq’a [Self-released]
Los Thuthanaka’s self-titled 2025 debut left big shoes to fill, shaking the very bones of genre and form with its collection of collagist, hypnotic electronic suite. The duo of Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s highly anticipated follow-up continues their work blending indigenous futurism with ancestral tradition. Titled Wa'qa, it’s an interpretation of the Aymara legend of the sun that arrives alongside a booklet co-created with Shana Inofuentes and Eber Miranda of Ch’ama Native Americas. Waq’a translates the story across three distinct songs, each representing a different phase in the sun’s journey.
Bon Iver: Volumes: One “Selections From Music Concerts 2019–2023 Bon Iver 6 Piece Band” [Jagjaguwar]
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Bon Iver’s new album looks back to look forward, quite literally. Volumes: One launches Justin Vernon’s new archival series with a 10-song suite of songs recorded with his six-piece band between 2019 and 2023. Modeled after Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series and the Neil Young Archives, it’s a new avenue through which Vernon can survey the scope of his career and sound, which continues to influence indie rock today. “This is what we became,” Iver has said of the collection, played with bandmates Andrew Fitzpatrick, Jenn Wasner, Matthew McCaughan, Michael Lewis, and Sean Carey. “This is really us at our best. This is it.”
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Sunn O))): Sunn O))) [Sub Pop]
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Thirty years into their collaboration, Sunn O))) show no sign of shedding their cloaks anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean the drone-metal duo don’t have room for alteration. Their new self-titled record, and their first since signing to legendary Seattle label Sub Pop, strips Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson’s work to its most primal format (did we mention its also the first record where they’ve played every instrument?). Recorded overlooking a forest in Bear Creek, Washington, Sunn O))) finds new textures in familiar open-chord and reverb-laden pastures, conjuring a dark and deceptively simple expanse that, like night vision, comes into detailed focus over time.
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Thundercat: Distracted [Brainfeeder]
Six years after It Is What It Is, Thundercat rebuilds his sumptuous, studio-rat universe of funk on Distracted. He brings along guests including Tame Impala, A$AP Rocky, and Lil Yachty—as well as a verse from the late Mac Miller—on an album that leans into the joys of daydreamy drift. “Sometimes you need to be distracted to focus in a different way,” as Thundercat puts it in press materials.
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Robber Robber: Two Wheels Move the Soul [Fire Talk]
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Nina Cates and Zack James started work on their second album as Robber Robber after a landlord called to have their building demolished. Spat out into midwinter Vermont at short notice, the two cofounders couch-surfed with friends while channeling their wrath into the cataclysmic sounds that would make up Two Wheels Move the Soul. The result is a dazzling onslaught of knotty vocal-and-guitar hooks that evoke everything from post-hardcore to classical minimalism, all rendered in the sort of alt-rock hues that can make a melodic minefield feel like home.
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41: Area 41 [Republic]
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Area 41 is the debut album and mission statement of New York drill collective 41. Built around core members TaTa, Kyle Richh, and Jenn Carter, the record features Key Glock, G Herbo, Fivio Foreign, and Cash Cobain on tracks that rattle through quick, volleying verses and pace-switching beats with volatile energy.
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Angine de Poitrine: Vol. II [Les Cassettes Magiques]
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There’s a nonzero chance that, in the last few months, you’ve been jump-scared on TikTok or Instagram Reels by a pair of polka-dotted ghouls playing bone-dry microtonal funk. These Yellow Submarine also-rans are Khn and Klek de Poitrine—the pseudonyms of two anonymous Qubecois musicians—and they perform as Angine de Poitrine (literally “chest pain” in French); Klek is the drummer, while Khn plays a monstrous double-necked guitar/bass hybrid. Together, they definitively answer the question: what does Jacob Collier see when he closes his eyes at night?
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Bruce Hornsby: Indigo Park [Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers]
Bruce Hornsby is not just for your millennial music-nerd friends anymore (although we can only hope you keep such company). The veteran troubadour has traversed many different eras since his top-rate 1986 debut, and in turn, touched many fanbases, especially as his distinctly ‘80s sound has made its way back around from quirk to cool. His latest album, Indigo Park, manages to capture them all in one big bear hug, swerving from delightfully inscrutable (to understand “Alabama,” you might want to brush up on Hungarian) to plainly diaristic over energized production that takes as many hints from early-’90s hip-hop as the Dead. In a fittingly era-eclectic touch, Hornsby invites a span of collaborators to round out the guest list, including Ezra Koenig, Bonnie Raitt, and the late Bob Weir, in one of his final recordings.
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Charley Crockett: Age of the Ram [Island Records]
Charley Crockett’s new album is his third full-length release in just over a year, completing his so-called “Sagebrush Trilogy” that also includes 2025’s Lonesome Drifter and Dollar a Day. According to press materials, Age of the Ram tells the story of a “small-time cattle rustler” named Billy McLane who finds himself “pursued by bounty hunters working for a shadow syndicate.” If Crockett’s cinematic ambitions weren’t obvious from the 20-song tracklist studded with parentheticals like “Main Theme,” the first thing we hear on the record is “and now for our feature presentation” and the sound of a projector rolling. While his aperture may be wider than ever, the Texan songwriter keeps his camera trained on the outskirts, and the rovers, roamers, and drifters who traverse them.
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Swae Lee: Same Difference [EarDrummers/Interscope]
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It’s never too late for a debut solo album…right? In Swae Lee’s case, the timing actually may be opportune—with 2016 nostalgia in full swing and a new Spiderman on the way, the Rae Sremmurd crooner’s signature sound is once again in demand. Same Difference, his first release without his brother and Rae Sremmurd bandmate Slxm Jimmi, splits the difference between centering his elastic singing voice and cementing him as a presence in rap’s major leagues. The beat palette ranges from smooth Afrobeats to F1LTHY nods to Weeknd-style '80s pop pastiche, but always keeps a light touch. Features shake out the same way, with NAV, Jhené Aiko, Rich the Kid, French Montana, and “Sunflower” collaborator Post Malone all dropping in; even Jimmi pops up on “Working Remote.”
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