With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be arduous to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork provides a run-down of serious new releases accessible on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Jenny Hval; Mannequin/Actriz; Automotive Seat Headrest; Yung Lean; Anthony Naples; Boldy James & Actual Unhealthy Man; Blondshell; Mei Semones; Paco Cathcart; Loscil; and Wet Miller. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed here are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing by way of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Jenny Whale: Iris Silver Mist (4ad)
Iris Silver Mist, the most recent album from the ever-familiar, ever-surprising singer-songwriter Jenny Hval, emerged from a collection of concert events during which she positioned rice cookers across the stage to fill the venue with the claggy aroma of house comforts. The album, itself named after a fragrance, faucets into her trademark talent for turning misty, windswept synths into lush backdrops for heavenly melodies to thunderbolt proper into. As ever, she offsets her baroque largesse with casually deep, oddly humorous observational lyrics that flip traces like, “You had bled by way of your denims,” into springboards for comedian monologues and philosophical yarns.
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