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 and projects from Rico Nasty, Sigur Rós, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger, Drakeo the Ruler, Winston C.W., Lee Paradise, and Undergang. 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.)
Rico Nasty: Nightmare Vacation [Atlantic]
Believe it or not, Nightmare Vacation is Rico Nasty’s debut studio album. It’s been in the works for some time—the rapper first announced the title back in 2019—and it’s her first project since the release of Anger Management with Kenny Beats. The album features appearances by Aminé, Gucci Mane, Don Toliver, and Trippie Redd, in addition to production by Take A Daytrip, 100 gecs, Buddah Bless, and Kenny Beats, among others.
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Sigur Rós: Odin’s Raven Magic [Krunk/Warner Classics]
Odin’s Raven Magic is an orchestral collaboration between Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir. Originally premiered at the Barbican Centre in London in 2002, the performance takes its name from an ancient Icelandic poem that recounted “a great banquet held by the gods in Valhalla while they were absorbed in their feasting, ominous signs appeared that could foretell the end of the worlds of the gods and men.”
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