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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 drops available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Greg Freeman, Emily A.
Sprague, Quavo, and more. 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.) Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone [Transgressive/Canvasback] Greg Freeman may have called his last album Burnover, but the John Congleton-produced All Set the Bone is the sound of the Vermont singer aflame.
Take album opener “Cahokia”: After 20 seconds of riffage that could’ve been lifted from a Riot!-era Paramore single, the track lurches into rollicking cabaret rock, then hand-me-down power pop, then an almost magisterial dual-guitar outro. As he blazes from one idea to the next Freeman no longer sounds like he’s writing really good Isaac Brock or Jason Molina or MJ Lenderman songs. He’s just writing really good Greg Freeman songs.
Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade B0YG1RL: B0YG1RL [Surf Gang] There’s a hot streak, and then there’s the year Miami duo B0YG1RL are having. Angela Rio and June “Tété” Vinette’s new self-titled album actually marks their fourth LP of 2026, and follows the thrilling Novagang collab EXIT 2B. The pair’s blend of kompa, post-rage rap, reggaeton, electro-pop, and baile funk is a testament to their rich roots in the South Florida scene and beyond, delivered primarily in Haitian Creole.
They easily blend diasporic traditions with hyperlocal heat by recognizing that the two are, more often that not, one and the same. Sprague: Cyano [Rvng Intl.] Emily A. Sprague, the experimental artist otherwise known as Florist, conceived Cyano on a winter solstice trip to an Icelandic fjord.
Inspired by photographer Anna Atkins and her work with cyanotypes, Sprague concocted a science-fiction album concept of a character on a faraway planet, represented by sounds with uncanny resemblance to organic instruments, like guitar and piano, that feel oddly holographic, and thus infused with the magic of discovery. Spiritually ambient but with strokes of dream-pop desire, Cyano weaves texturally incongruous melodies into soundscapes that resemble space-age animations. Slow jams like “Come Back to You” and “I Want You” are laden with unshakable desire, while the Kaytranada-produced single “Reach Out” takes that same yearning and dances it out over retro house.
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