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 late Mac Miller, the Weather Station, Ela Minus, Blue Lake, Yola, Benjamin Lackner, Jasmine.4.T, and Kele. 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.)
Mac Miller: Balloonerism [Warner]
To Mac Miller fans, Balloonerism is a holy grail posthumous album—a comprehensive LP recorded and compiled in 2014, around the release of Faces, under Miller’s own direction. The long sought-after project, a statement from his family notes, “was of great importance to Malcolm,” who went as far as to commission artwork and plot the release plan before Faces follow-up GO:OD AM took precedence. An animated short film accompanies the release.
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