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 Bon Iver, Ken Carson, Sherelle, Cold Specks, and Vegyn. 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.)
Bon Iver: SABLE, fABLE [Jagjaguwar]
Justin Vernon returned to his woodsy singer-songwriter roots on last year’s SABLE, EP, “three uniformly deep-blue songs introducing an album of kaleidoscopic color,” as Alex Robert Ross put it in Pitchfork’s review. That subsequent album, SABLE, fABLE, appends nine new songs to the EP to present an altogether sprightlier proposition—an exultant symphony of funk-infused rock that doubles as “a genuinely surprising pop and soul record,” Ross added, “from an artist who has spent half a lifetime searching for new modes of expression. Across fABLE, he sounds unrestrained and irrepressible, as though he’s purging some ecstasy he’s kept at bay for years.”
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