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 Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, Jessie Ware, 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.)
Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize: Nine Inch Noize [The Null Corporation/Boysnoize Records]
No, it’s not a typo. The mini-opening sets Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize brought to the former’s Peel It Back tour earlier this year have evolved into a full-blown supergroup, with a self-titled album out now. Although the two acts have collaborated in years past, they cemented their partnership at Coachella last week in a driving set that indicated just how neatly they fit together, marrying Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ onyx post-punk and industrial techno with Boys Noize’s sleek, sweaty electroclash.
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Jessie Ware: Superbloom [Interscope]
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Jessie Ware’s Superbloom sounds like the sonic embodiment of a city street exploding with magnolia and cherry blooms as the air warms in spring. There’s the love-drunk disco pop the singer perfected on her 2020 breakout album, What’s Your Pleasure?, the sumptuous proto-house recalling Paradise Garage, and the floral, cinematic soundscapes of ’70s funk. “Since What’s Your Pleasure? I’ve been trying out this fantasy world and escapism. I’m not the most by-the-book ‘pop star’, but I do like to play with dress-up, glamour, and fun,” Ware said in a statement. “While I love dance music, I wanted to dig deeper with this record; to connect with real relationships and appreciate the love I have, and the fears I have of losing it.”
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Tokischa: Amor & Droga [SOL]
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Even though she’s gone head-to-head on a track with Madonna and shaved her head onstage at FKA twigs’ Body High tour, Tokischa continues to find new ways to establish herself as one of neoperreo’s ballsiest torchbearers. Her long-awaited debut, Amor & Droga, transmits her kingpin bravado through new channels like electro-pop, balladry, and even surf rock. Coursing beneath it all is the signature dembow that she has turned every which way over the course of her career, still golden after all these years.
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Tezzus / Diamond*: Uy Scuti Bøyz [YSL]
You’d be hard pressed to find an up-and-coming Atlanta rapper who doesn’t want to pay their respects to Young Thug, but not all of them are signed to his label. Øway collective breakouts Tezzus and Diamond*, who signed with Thugger in January on the wings of a viral crew cypher, named their first joint EP after their big boss’ latest album (which, in turn, was named after the universe’s largest known star). The new project highlights their natural chemistry and clear affinity for the So Much Fun era—the kids are definitely still alright.
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Sexyy Red: Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa [Rebel / gamma]
Never one to pass up a good party, Sexyy Red waited for her birthday to drop Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa. Recruiting mixtape legend DJ Holiday to host, the St. Louis provocateur bakes up another batch of strip-club anthems dripping in ad-libbed bravado, layering her signature flow over Gucci-minded beats from Tay Keith, ATL Jacob, Zaytoven, Metro Boomin, and Mike Will Made-It. She’ll take the album to the stage next weekend at Coachella, after a standout weekend-one performance that featured Lizzo and Central Cee. What’s a birthday album drop without a hype crowd to celebrate it with?
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Lucy Liyou: Mr Cobra [Orange Milk]
A home filled with cracked porcelain, a creaky piano, a sinister voice growling, “What the *fuck* are you doing here?” Lucy Liyou has compared her new album to a “horror house,” and the avant-garde sound artist has clearly done her homework. Mr Cobra opens like a dark, cobwebbed staircase leading into a vast and foreboding space, all frantic flute and piano, creaks, and bone-chilling screeches (not to mention a slutty monologue seemingly communicated via Google Translate). Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films. The bespoke blend of influences lends to the record’s personal material: Liyou adapted Mr Cobra, she says, from a performance art piece she wrote about “a time back in high school when I fell in love with a predator.”
Yaya Bey: Fidelity [Drink Sum Wtr]
After Do It Afraid, an album that explored the Brooklyn-based singer’s grief following the death of her father, Yaya Bey wondered, “What part of that ache is specifically Black?” On Fidelity, she ponders the displacement of Black communities from her native New York, the complicated nature of relationships—familial, romantic, and platonic—and the deep joy we’re promised as we work through it all. Her resounding vocals melt over the crackly interiors of R&B, reggae, and Jersey club. As she sings on “Egyptian Musk,” you get the feeling that “The world is so cold, but baby it’s warm in here.”
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Kuru: Backstage Hologram [deadAir]
Growing up and getting into IDM is somewhat of a rite passage for the young American bedroom producer, but few incorporate it into their style like Kuru. The Japanese American rapper and digicore producer’s new LP, Backstage Hologram, gets playful with polyphony and bit music-inflected suites, as on the dextrous blip-and-vocal orchestra conjured on the “Noir Kei.” Kuru may be expanding their roster of influences, but their roots remain close at hand: The features here include Xaviersobased, Katmoji, and Kuru’s tourmate Lucy Bedroque.
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Frog: Frog for Sale [tapewormies]
Frog were reclusive until they weren’t. The Americana band’s mastermind, Daniel Bateman, put the project on hold for four years before bringing his brother, Steve, into the previously one-man-band in 2023. The subsequent record, Grog, kicked off a prolific streak: Frog for Sale is the lo-fi alt-country duo’s third album in 14 months, a pseudo-sequel to 2025’s 1000 Variations on the Same Song. Playing with the textures of bossa nova, jangle pop, and twee folk in his signature falsetto, Bateman tears through a songwriting spree inspired by fellow creative compulsives, from Lil Wayne to Mozart, plunking away on piano, strumming guitar, and delivering goofy anecdotes like a homespun cabaret act. Getting lost in the whirlwind is half the fun.
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Tiga: Hotlife [Secret City/Turbo]
Tiga’s first album in a decade arrives right on time: Blog house and electroclash, once cramped under the stifling “indie sleaze” umbrella, are in the midst of an intersecting resurgence. The techno hell-raiser is up to his old tricks on Hotlife, pelting out mesmeric earworms and monologued mantras that seem designed to be enjoyed while wearing shades in the club. Several partners in dancefloor anarchy feature, including Boys Noize, downtown electro-pop duo Fcukers, and Canadian sapphic club maestra Maara.
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Kathryn Mohr: Carve [The Flenser]
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There’s nothing pretty about Oakland field recordist and songwriter Kathryn Mohr’s folk music, which feels less Laurel Canyon and more dark, gaping maw. Her stunning 2025 debut, Waiting Room, interrogated horror and discomfort through probing and foreboding synthesizer drones and crackling bass; on Carve, she’s not done with her demons yet. Mixed by Agriculture guitarist Richard Chowenhill, it is her most grunge-forward and melodic record yet, recalling forebears like Courtney Love and PJ Harvey. But because she approaches rock composition with the intuition of an ambient producer, a sense of eerie mystery prevails across the album. This could also have to do with her inspirations: dreams, visions, and “an underground man made waterway I found that went on for miles under the city I live in,” as she noted in a press statement.
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Honey Dijon: The Nightlife [SOS / Blacktopia]
Four years have passed since Honey Dijon parlayed a well-deserved Beyoncé co-sign on Renaissance into the party-starting breakthrough album Black Girl Magic. The spirit of collaboration that characterizes the Chicago house producer’s work—including her stopgap DJ Kicks mix in 2024—remains at the core of The Nightlife, with high-stakes vocal turns from the likes of Rochelle Jordan, Madison McFerrin, Greentea Peng, Chlöe, and, on a pair of songs including the single “Slight Werk,” Bree Runway.
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