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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 Grace Ives, Elucid, Joyce Manor, Saya Gray, Sam Gendel, Levon Vincent, and Deliluh. 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.)
Grace Ives: Janky Star [True Panther/Harvest]
Brooklyn-based musician Grace Ives announced Janky Star in April with the release of her irresistible track “Lullaby.” The indie pop jam arrived with a horse girl–friendly music video starring Ives dancing and prancing through stables and farmland. “Lullaby” is one of 10 songs on the new record, which also includes the singles “Loose” and “Angel of Business.” Janky Star follows Ives’ 2019 album 2nd and features co-production from Justin Raisen. It touches on themes like devotion, sobriety, and the desire to transcend modern life.
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Elucid: I Told Bessie [Backwoodz Studioz]
Elucid named his latest LP after his paternal grandmother, Bessie Hall—a prominent figure in his life until she died in 2017. “Since she left this plane, I have felt her presence and voice in my life more than ever,” Elucid wrote of Hall in press materials. “With this album I want to pay tribute to her and acknowledge her continuing impact on my life path.” I Told Bessie features contributions from the New York rapper and producer’s Armand Hammer bandmate billy woods, as well as Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris, the Alchemist, Kenny Segal, and others.
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Joyce Manor: 40 oz. to Fresno [Epitaph]
Joyce Manor’s follow-up to 2018’s Million Dollars to Kill Me was named after an auto-corrected text message about Sublime and their 1992 album 40 oz. to Freedom. The latest from the California power pop and pop-punk band was produced by Rob Schnapf. Read Mia Hughes’ review, which notes that it’s a “Joyce Manor album for Joyce Manor fans—a loving, uncynical refinement of the band’s best.”
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Saya Gray: 19 Masters [Dirty Hit]
19 Masters, the debut release from Canadian-Japanese singer-songwriter Saya Gray, is filled with reflections on being a mixed-race woman growing up in a mostly white environment. While Gray largely recorded the project on her own, 19 Masters also features contributions from her family: her mother’s voice opening the project, guitar from her brother, and trumpet from her dad.
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Sam Gendel: Superstore [Leaving]
Los Angeles musician and producer Sam Gendel returns with Superstore. The 34-track project glides between jazz, ambient, bossa nova, and more. Gendel enlisted a compact but lauded group of players for the album: bassist Gabe Noel, percussionists Philippe Mlanson and Kevin Yokota, as well as Blake Mills on synths and guitar. Superstore follows Gendel’s 52-song album Fresh Bread, which arrived last year, as well as the composer’s Antonia Cytrynowicz collaboration Live a Little.
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Levon Vincent: Silent Cities [Novel Sound]
The latest project from the American-born, Berlin-based house and techno producer Levon Vincent is keyed in at 72 beats per minute—his average resting heart rate. “I was expanding further along the lines of a surprise favorite from my previous LP, a song called ‘She Likes to Wave to Passing Boats’ which was not a four-on-the-floor piece to play in clubs but a more impressionistic piece of music that I wrote to expound some emotions one day,” Vincent said in statement. “It was a song written using just intonation. I really love how warm the pure fourths sound, so when working on the new LP Silent Cities I decided to use my own tunings.”
Deliluh: Fault Lines [Tin Angel]
Deliluh’s Kyle Knapp and Julius Pedersen relocated to Europe from Toronto, which is where Fault Lines took shape. “We did a lot of heavy lifting at home together in Berlin and Marseille, taking turns training back and forth, throwing shit at the wall and experimenting,” Pedersen said. The album features the single “Amulet.”
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