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 Panda Bear, Marie Davidson, Darkside, Ichiko Aoba, Kilbourne, Boldy James & Chuck Strangers, Deep Sea Diver, Cheekface, and Saffron Bloom. 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.)
Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino]
Noah Lennox brings the sunshine—and, for the first time on a Panda Bear album, nearly all of his Animal Collective bandmates—on Sinister Grift, an album of spongy psychedelic daydreams and melodies that yearn and enchant. Co-produced by Animal Collective’s Josh “Deakin” Dibb, the Buoys and Reset follow-up invites guests including Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and his old bandmates to add splashes of color to his otherwise one-man operation. The result, said admirer Oneohtrix Point Never in a press release, is “classic rock dream that ebbs beautifully into a little bit of a nightmare.”
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