#7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: slowthai, Virginia Wing, Minari, and More

“#7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: slowthai, Virginia Wing, Minari, 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, soundtracks, and EPs from slowthai, Virginia Wing, Emile Mosseri, Chris Crack, Loshh, Django Django, and Ad Nauseam. 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.)

slowthai: TYRON [Method/AWGE/Interscope]

TYRON is the second album from Northampton rapper slowthai, who issued his debut Nothing Great About Britain in 2019. The record features a number of guests, including Skepta (“Cancelled”), A$AP Rocky (“MAZZA”), and James Blake and Mount Kimbie (“feel away”).

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Virginia Wing: private LIFE [Fire]

Alice Merida Richards, Sam Pillay, and Christopher Duffin comprise the Manchester-based electronic pop act Virginia Wing. Their new private LIFE follows 2019’s Pale Burnt Lake. Check out Virginia Wing’s music videos for “I’m Holding Out for Something” and “St. Francis Fountain.”

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Emile Mosseri: Minari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Milan]

American composer and pianist Emile Mosseri has had a busy couple of years. He scored Miranda July’s latest film Kajillionaire, episodes of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, and The Last Black Man in San Francisco. His latest project is the score for Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, the semi-autobiographical drama of a Korean family who moves to Arkansas.

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Chris Crack: Might Delete Later [Fool’s Gold]

Might Delete Later is the prolific Chicago rapper and producer Chris Crack’s first LP for Fool’s Gold. He led the record with “False Evidence Appearing Real” last month. The new album follows November’s Haters Forget They Were Fans First.

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Loshh: ÍFARADÁ EP [TENNNN]

Loshh is the project of Loshh Aje, the London-based artist whose mediums also include visual arts and poetry. Following a string of singles, Loshh has released his debut EP ÍFARADÁ. The project combines jazz, Afrobeat, funk, and pop. ÍFARADÁ features the previously-released “FAJI” and “FEELAM”—both heavy with horns, percussion, and guitar.

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Django Django: Glowing in the Dark [Because]

Glowing in the Dark is Django Django’s fourth studio album, following 2018’s Marble Skies. The new LP features “Free From Gravity,” which the group released last month along with a Jim Canty–directed music video starring a kid in an alien costume. In 2020, MGMT remixed Django Django’s Glowing in the Dark opener “Spirals.”

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Ad Nauseam: Imperative Imperceptible Impulse [Avantgarde]

Imperative Imperceptible Impulse is the sophomore release from Italian death/black metal quartet Ad Nauseam, whose debut LP Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est arrived back in 2015. The new album, as with their prior album, was self-produced by the members of the group, who also designed and built most of the equipment used on the record, including drums parts, cabinets, and more.

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