With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be exhausting to find out what to take heed to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases obtainable on streaming providers. This week’s batch contains new albums from Megan Thee Stallion, Mabe Fratti, Omar Apollo, Fortunate Daye, Channel Tres, Soiled Three, Eiko Ishibashi, Lupe Fiasco, Bitter Widows, and the People Implosion. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. While you purchase one thing by our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)
Megan Thee Stallion: Megan [Hot Girl Productions]
After introducing Megan with three serpentine singles—“Hiss,” “Boa,” and “Cobra”—Megan Thee Stallion has uncoiled the completed product. For her third album, the Houston rapper invitations friends together with Glorilla and Victoria Monét to fill out a sometimes raucous assortment of brutal bars, infectious hooks, and venomous one-liners.
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