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 Madonna, Mary in the Junkyard, Ken Carson, 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.)
Madonna: Confessions II [Warner]
“I don’t want your judgment or your recitations,” Madonna declares on “Bring Your Love,” the Sabrina Carpenter duet the two ambitious blondes debuted at Carpenter’s Coachella set in April. Ironically, Confessions II and its rollout seem like the first time she’s engaged with audience feedback in, well, maybe ever. It’s conventional wisdom that Confessions on a Dance Floor, from 2005, was the last truly great Madonna album, and she has taken pains to follow the family recipe to the letter, reuniting with producer Stuart Price and her old label. After more than two decades, the Queen of Pop is primed to add at least one more jewel to her crown, even if she has to do it one Grindr targeted ad at a time.
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Ken Carson: Xperiment [Opium]
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