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 Cameron Winter, Deafheaven, Dawn Richard, Troye Sivan, 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.) Cameron Winter: Live at Carnegie Hall [Partisan/Pias] In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Cameron Winter said that of the few people he’s shown his new solo music to, “I don’t think anyone’s really liked it.” I struggle to believe he’s including the few thousand who heard unreleased material echo through Carnegie Hall’s main auditorium last December. On a new live album from that night—which arrives alongside a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed concert film—Winter cements himself among America’s greatest living songwriters, with tracks from his prodigious debut Heavy Metal stripped down to nothing but Steinway and tessitura.
Once the ultimate “you had to be there” flex, Live at Carnegie Hall can now earn the people’s stamp of approval. Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Listen/Buy at Bandcamp Buy at Rough Trade Marina Herlop: Dja Dja [self-released] Marina Herlop’s first self-released album propels the Catalan composer, producer, and singer into the uppermost echelons of outré pop. Dja Dja comprises 14 songs of polyphonic glitz, MIDI fugues, and Balinese gamelan to form an epic suite spanning ancient timbres and hectic sound design, pure pop and a beguiling avant-garde.
Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form. Her latest, Creole Culture, takes the singer back to her New Orleans roots once again, as she invites a host of lively musicians—including Big Freedia and Durand Bernarr—along with her. The band’s 2025 album Lonely People With Power saw them stick to their guns while still exploring slightly poppier arrangements through some of their quickest, most clearly structured songs to date.
A new surprise EP, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, continues to split that difference across three songs. (Don’t worry, there's still a 12-minute scorcher for the old heads.) Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Listen on Tidal Listen on Amazon Music Troye Sivan: She’s the Best [Interscope] If Troye Sivan’s last house-pop album, Something to Give Each Other, captured post-pandemic euphoria and post-breakup mania, She’s the Best is the comedown after. Written in the solitude of endless tour nights following the release of Something, his fourth album exists in the liminal space between pop stardom and the quiet solitude of a hotel room on tour. To transport us to this emotionally sticky place, the Melbourne singer transitions into a syrupy, mature sound, entangling some of his most reflective lyrics to date with ’90s house, trip-hop, shoegaze, and touches of drum 'n' bass.
Remi Wolf’s third album trades the warm funk and disco of predecessors Big Ideas and Juno for full-fledged folk rock, scaling back tongue-in-cheek gimmickry without losing the oddball candor she does best. Wolf elected to track the album live with a close-knit group of musicians she gathered across Big Bear Lake, Joshua Tree, and New York to creatively coexist as a “family band.” The result is a string of loose and lived-in arrangements. Wolf has never sounded more grounded than with 10 toes down in the muck.
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