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 EPs from Moor Mother, Two Shell, Naima Bock, Medicine Singers, Momma, Ahmer, and Mat Ball. 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.)
Moor Mother: Jazz Codes [Anti-]
Camae Ayewa’s latest Moor Mother album is the follow-up to 2021’s Black Encyclopedia of the Air. The album features contributions from Mary Lattimore, Akai Solo, Fatboi Sharif, Irreversible Entanglements, Yungmorpheus, and more. “It’s poetry that drives this album,” Ayewa said in a statment. “The stories of these artists and countless others not named but felt—is the leading motivation. I wanted to honor & give offerings, hold them in my body, dream with them, send sweetness.”
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Two Shell: Icons EP [Mainframe Audio]
Not much is known about the London duo Two Shell, who debuted in 2019 with the Access EP. The UK bass duo’s new EP, Icons, includes the singles “Pods” and “Dust.” In his Best New Music review of the EP, Philip Sherburne writes, “Virtually every element of Icons feels engineered to replicate the dizzy rush of nightclubbing at its most exhilarating, when a new sound gets its claws into you for the first time.”
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