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 the 1975, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lucrecia Dalt, Bill Callahan, Plains, Mavi, Sam Gendel, and Palm. 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.)
The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language [Dirty Hit]
For the follow-up to Notes on a Conditional Form, Matty Healy and co. enlisted super-producer du jour Jack Antonoff. “People may think that it’s ‘uncool’ to work with the biggest producer in the world,” Healy told Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal. “I don’t give a fuck. I wanna make a great fucking record.” The album, which was led by “Part of the Band,” “Happiness,” “I’m in Love With You,” and “All I Need to Hear,” is “the band’s shortest and most focused album yet, one that perpetuates a simple message: Love will save us,” Brady Brickner-Wood wrote in his review of Being Funny in a Foreign Language. “It’s cliché, it’s obvious, it’s slyly profound—it’s the 1975.”
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