9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Panda Bear, Marie Davidson, Darkside, and More


With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be onerous to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork provides a run-down of great new releases accessible on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains 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 publication to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing via our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)


Panda Bear: Sinister Grift [Domino]

Noah Lennox brings the sunshine—and, for the primary time on a Panda Bear album, almost 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 invitations friends together with Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and his previous bandmates so as to add splashes of coloration to his in any other case one-man operation. The end result, mentioned admirer Oneohtrix Level By no means in a press launch, is a “traditional rock dream that ebbs superbly into a bit of little bit of a nightmare.”

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Marie Davidson: Metropolis of Clowns [Deewee]