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 Jenny Hval; Model/Actriz; Car Seat Headrest; Yung Lean; Anthony Naples; Boldy James & Real Bad Man; Blondshell; Mei Semones; Paco Cathcart; Loscil; and Rainy Miller. 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.)
Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist [4AD]
Iris Silver Mist, the latest album from the ever-familiar, ever-surprising singer-songwriter Jenny Hval, emerged from a series of concerts in which she placed rice cookers around the stage to fill the venue with the claggy aroma of home comforts. The album, itself named after a perfume, taps into her trademark skill for turning misty, windswept synths into lush backdrops for heavenly melodies to thunderbolt right into. As ever, she offsets her baroque largesse with casually deep, oddly funny observational lyrics that turn lines like, “You had bled through your jeans,” into springboards for comic monologues and philosophical yarns.
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