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 projects from the Cure, Mount Eerie, Lil Uzi Vert, Haley Heynderickx, Pablo Skywalkin, Westside Gunn, EarthGang, Freddie Gibbs, VonOff1700, and Thirdface. 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 Cure: Songs of a Lost World [Fiction/Capitol]
The Cure’s long (long, long) awaited return is finally here. Songs of a Lost World, the goth supremos’ follow-up to 4:13 Dream, presents a spangled, stately suite of blissed-out ballads and mortal meditations. Preceded by “Alone” and “A Fragile Thing,” the album was made in Wales with the producer Paul Corkett.
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Mount Eerie: Night Palace [P.W. Elverum & Sun]
Phil Elverum returns to his Mount Eerie project for his first album under the name since 2019’s Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2. Over the past two years, while he wrote Night Palace, Elverum re-learned how to settle down and create art without urgency or expectation again. Clocking in at 26 songs, the new album explores the circle of life (“Broom of Wind”), how Elverum’s grown since releasing A Crow Looked at Me, in 2017 (“I Saw Another Bird”), and a churning rejection of multi-generational theft and destruction (“Non-Metaphorical Decolonization”), all while reviving the sound for which Mount Eerie is known: lonely guitar strumming, blown-out tube amps, and just the right balance of quiet and fuzz.
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Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake 2 [Generation Now/Atlantic]
Lil Uzi Vert worked with Cashmere Cat, Mike Dean, Lil 88, and more on their new album Eternal Atake 2. The pop singer Charlie Puth, the band Big Time Rush, and Jersey club favorite MC Vertt also get credits across the 16-song sequel to 2020’s standout Eternal Atake. Lil Uzi Vert did not release any singles ahead of the album’s post-Halloween release.
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Haley Heynderickx: Seed of a Seed [Mama Bird]
It’s been a long time since Haley Heynderickx released her debut album, but the Portland-based singer-songwriter has finally poked her head out again with new music. The follow-up to 2018’s I Need to Start a Garden explores the ways in which humans have slowly and unintentionally distanced themselves from nature. With songs like “Gemini” and “Seed of a Seed,” Heynderickx suggests, on her new album, that our environment doesn’t just restore our health, but teaches us how to protect ourselves so long as we’re willing to listen.
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Pablo Skywalkin: Pablo for President [Million Dollar Dreams]
Pablo Skywalkin seems to be in the spirit for New Music Friday: His Instagram avatar is none other than the Cure’s Robert Smith. The Detroit street rapper (and repeat feature in Alphonse Pierre’s column The Ones) is altogether more prolific: Pablo for President, his third project of the year, is another brisk showcase of high-concept songs that take one idea (“Dress Shoes,” “Hair Done,” etc.), sprint through a series of gags and hypnotic hooks, and crash over the finish line in approximately 100 seconds.
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Westside Gunn: 11 / Still Praying [Griselda]
On Halloween, Westside Gunn released 11, a project primarily produced by Denny Laflare. The Buffalo rapper followed the five-song release with the full-length Still Praying. The new album is a back-to-basics affair for Gunn after last year’s And Then You Pray for Me. It’s also a collaboration with DJ Drama that features further contributions from Denny Laflare, Griselda regular Daringer, DJ Muggs, and stalwart rappers Conway the Machine, Stove God Cooks, Boldy James, Benny the Butcher, and Rome Streetz.
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EarthGang: Perfect Fantasy [UnitedMasters]
The genre-bending duo EarthGang manipulate hip-hop, funk, pop, and soul on their new album Perfect Fantasy. The follow-up to 2022’s Ghetto Gods boasts an appropriately eclectic cast of guests, including Little Dragon, Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg, Florida rapper Cochise, and Blur and Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn.
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Freddie Gibbs: You Only Die 1nce [ESGN]
With very little notice, Freddie Gibbs returned with the new album You Only Die 1nce on Halloween. Gibbs, Ben “Lambo” Lambert, Norva Denton, and Pops are the executive producers of the Indiana native’s first album since 2022’s $oul $old $eparately, and Gibbs marked the project’s release with a music video for the brooding “On the Set.”
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VonOff1700: #TurntUpNotBurntUp [Signal/Columbia]
VonOff1700 caught ears with his debut mixtape, #FreeMyHoodFuckYoHood, and the rising Chicago drill is star back with the new project #TurntUpNotBurntUp. He got some of his city’s greatest acts—namely Polo G and G Herbo—for the project, which also has a posthumous contribution from King Von.
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Thirdface: Ministerial Cafeteria [Exploding in Sound]
Tennessee hardcore band Thirdface don’t mess around. On their sophomore album, Ministerial Cafeteria, they thrash their way through 12 technically blistering and unrelentingly paced songs without obscuring the weird, melodic hooks buried beneath it all. Vocalist Kathryn Edwards screams about power imbalances, societal hierarchies, and mental health issues across singles like “Meander” and “Midian,” while the rest of the band blurs the line between punk, grindcore, and experimental metal. From start to end, Ministerial Cafeteria continues to dig deep following Thirdface’s impressive 2021 debut, Do It With a Smile.
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