#5 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bill Callahan, Lomelda, Big Sean, and More

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 Bill Callahan, Lomelda, Big Sean, Tricky, and Galya Bisengalieva. 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.)

Bill Callahan: Gold Record [Drag City]

There were six years between Bill Callahan’s Dream River and Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest. Now, a year on from Shepherd, Callahan shares Gold Record, which he’s been previewing with weekly tracks since June. In his Pitchfork review of the album, Mike Powell writes, “If Shepherd’s man was settling down, Gold Record imagines the sweet old codger he may one day become.”

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Lomelda: Hannah [Double Double Whammy]

Hannah Read recorded her new Lomelda album with her brother Tommy in their Silsbee, Texas hometown. The record, the nearly-self-titled Hannah, follows last year’s M for Empathy. Read Pitchfork’s track review of “Wonder.”

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Big Sean: Detroit 2 [G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam]

Big Sean’s new album is the sequel to the rapper’s 2012 Detroit mixtape. It also follows Sean’s twin 2017 releases I Decided. and Double or Nothing. Sean previewed Detroit 2 with “Deep Reverence” (featuring the late Nipsey Hussle) and “Harder Than My Demons.”

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Tricky: Fall to Pieces [False Idols]

Trip-hop pioneer Tricky recorded his new album Fall to Pieces in his Berlin studio last year. Much of the record features vocals from Polish singer Marta Złakowska.

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Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum [One Little Independent]

Kazakh-British violinist/composer and London Contemporary Orchestra leader Galya Bisengalieva named her new album after the Aralkum Desert, an arid region that formed in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan when the Aral Sea dried up. The record is a concept album about the desiccation of the Aral, divided into three parts: “Pre-Disaster,” “Calamity,” and “Future.”

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