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 Primal Scream, SahBabii, Claire Rousay, Perila, El Cousteau, BabyTron, Loe Shimmy, Ab-Soul, and more. 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.)
Primal Scream: Come Ahead [BMG]
Come Ahead marks Primal Scream’s first album in eight years. The longstanding Scottish rock group’s 12th album and follow-up to 2016’s Chaosmosis is an album about “conflict, whether inner or outer,” according to singer Bobby Gillespie. “The title is a Glaswegian term. If someone threatens to fight you, you say, ‘come ahead!’ It’s redolent of the indomitable spirit of the Glaswegian, and the album itself shares that aggressive attitude and confidence.” Come Ahead, produced by David Holmes, is also the band’s first record since the death, in 2022, of Martin Duffy, who had played on all of the group’s records since 1991’s Screamadelica.
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