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 Laura Marling, Soccer Mommy, Megan Thee Stallion, Akai Solo, the late Young Slo-Be, Two Shell, Anna McClellan, Elias Rønnenfelt, Pom Pom Squad, 2nd Grade, and Félicia Atkinson. 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.)
Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat [Chrysalis/Partisan]
Laura Marling’s first album in four years is a trove of nocturnal ballads and introspective lullabies recorded in the room with her newborn daughter. Patterns in Repeat, the British singer-songwriter’s Song for Our Daughter follow-up, is filled with fingerpicked reflections on parenthood and family psychology—informed by her recent completion of a masters degree in psychoanalysis—as well as aging and romance, on songs like the Leonard Cohen–esque “Caroline” or the contemplative “Looking Back,” adapted from a song her father wrote, in his youth, about growing old.
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Soccer Mommy: Evergreen [Loma Vista]
