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 Sleater-Kinney, Green Day, Mary Halvorson, Ana Tijoux, Donato Dozzy, Cowboy Sadness, Packs, and Bolts of Melody. 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.)
Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope [Loma Vista]
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker return with a new Sleater-Kinney record, the follow-up to 2021’s Path of Wellness. The new LP, Little Rope, was borne, in part, out of tragedy: the deaths of Brownstein’s parents in a car accident while vacationing in Italy. In the ensuing months, she turned to music: “I don’t think I’ve played guitar that much since my teens or early twenties,” she said in press materials. “Literally moving my fingers across the fretboard for hours on end to remind myself I was still capable of basic motor skills, of movement, of existing.” Working with producer John Congleton, the band turned songs of grief, loneliness, and transformation into a rich tapestry of indie-pop anthems.
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Green Day: Saviors [Reprise/Warner]
Last year, Green Day announced Saviors with lead single “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” along with a zombie apocalypse–inspired music video. The track, which they debuted live in concert, opens their new 15-song LP, which also includes “Dilemma,” “One Eyed Bastard,” and “Look Ma, No Brains!” Green Day recorded Saviors in London and Los Angeles with Rob Cavallo, the producer of albums like Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, American Idiot, and Bullet in a Bible.
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Mary Halvorson: Cloudward [Nonesuch]
Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet follow their eponymous 2022 album with eight eclectic improvisonatial jazz compositions on Cloudward, a relatively comfortable addition to the bandleader’s sprawling catalog. Laurie Anderson joins the Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow on “Incarnadine.”
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Ana Tijoux: Vida [Victoria Producciones]
Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux’s first album since 2014’s Vengo isn’t keeping things small-scale: In addition to releasing the 15-track Vida, Tijaux recently announced a full U.S. tour that marks her first trek in the country since 2019. The record, which Tijoux has called “a call to every single creator out there,” features appearances from iLe, Talib Kweli and De La Soul’s Plug 1.
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Donato Dozzy: Magda [Spazio Disponibile]
Per Italian producer Donato Dozzy, his latest studio album, Magda, is dedicated to two important figures in his life: his aunt and the Adriatic Sea. Dozzy, whose music has spanned from techno to sound installations to albums focused on mouth harp, hadn’t shared a new album since the 2019 ambient release 12H. Magda is out via Dozzy’s own label, Spazio Disponibile.
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Cowboy Sadness: Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1 [People Teeth]
Cowboy Sadness is a collaborative project from members of the Antlers, Bing & Ruth, and Port St. Willow, who recorded this debut record between 2017 and 2021. The singles “First Rodeo” and “Second Rodeo” illustrate the lambent “jambient” sound that characterizes the Aphex Twin–referencing LP, with Peter Silberman’s baritone guitar and synths wending through plush electronics from David Moore and Nick Principe’s drums and synth.
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Packs: Melt the Honey [Fire Talk]
Mostly recorded between Mexico City and Xalapa, the third album from Packs arrives after a fall that saw singer-songwriter Madeline Link tour with Geese and Slow Pulp. Melt the Honey takes significant inspiration from the quiet environment where it was made—the song “Missy” is even written from the perspective of a cat Link often saw around her practice space.
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Bolts of Melody: Film Noir [Outer Battery]
Swervedriver frontperson Adam Franklin debuts his Bolts of Melody project with Film Noir, which features J Mascis, the Besnard Lakes, Kellie Lloyd, and Sukie Smith, as well as longtime collaborators Locksley Taylor, Josh Stoddard, and Mikey Jones. It plays “like a soundtrack,” said Franklin in press materials, with each song “given license to roam.” He continued, “Some were quite literally composed as library music before being rescued from life in an elevator when it was realised that they contained some semblance of heart and soul.”
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