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 projects from Bon Iver, Porridge Radio, Japandroids, High Vis, Kelly Lee Owens, Lechuga Zafiro, Office Culture, Mediopicky, Machine Girl, and Kurious. 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.)
Bon Iver: SABLE, EP [Jagjaguwar]
Justin Vernon and his collaborators recorded the four-track SABLE, EP at the Bon Iver leader’s April Base studio in Wisconsin. Vernon shared just one single, “S P E Y S I D E,” ahead of the record, along with a moody black-and-white video directed by Erinn Springer and starring Vernon in a large hat. Vernon produced the EP with Jim-E Stack, who also co-wrote “S P E Y S I D E” with Vernon, Ryan Olson, and BJ Burton. Rob Moose also contributed to the record, playing viola and arranging strings throughout. Vernon named the project SABLE, after “near-blackness,” he said in press materials.
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Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me [Secretly Canadian]
