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 and EPs from Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, Dry Cleaning, Armani Caesar, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Frankie Cosmos, Hagop Tchaparian, and Loshh. 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.)
Taylor Swift: Midnights [Republic]
After a pair of woodsy albums with Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift’s latest LP tells “the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout [her] life.” Antonoff returns to co-produce and co-write the Evermore follow-up, which also features contributions from Lana Del Rey, Zoë Kravitz, Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn (under his pseudonym William Bowery), Sam Dew, and Sounwave. No singles preceded the album.
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Arctic Monkeys: The Car [Domino]
Four years after their sharp left-turn with Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Arctic Monkeys have regrouped for another confounding and divisive LP. Led by the arthouse-cinematic ballad “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball,” the band’s seventh album pivots between orchestral pop, raucous funk (“I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am”), studio-rat sophistipop, and rousing rock singalongs (“Body Paint”), all with intoxicatingly witty and cryptic lyrics. “The Car is an album of love, longing, and doubt,” writes Pitchfork’s Matthew Strauss in his review. “The obfuscation serves to bolster its core belief that the simplest truths are the hardest ones to discover.”
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