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#7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Spirit of the Beehive, Damon Locks, BROCKHAMPTON, and More

#7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Spirit of the Beehive, Damon Locks, BROCKHAMPTON, 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 SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble, BROCKHAMPTON, Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley, Yaya Bey, Yshinori Hayashi, and the Vijay Iyer Trio. 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.)

Spirit of the Beehive: Entertainment, Death [Saddle Creek]

Spirit of the Beehive’s Entertainment, Death is their fourth LP and their first for Saddle Creek. It’s also the first record that the band recorded and produced themselves. “Spirit of the Beehive’s surreal lyrics reflect the kind of malaise that’s superabundant in the writing of Kmart realists: visceral, hallucinatory vignettes that evoke an entire landscape of feeling in very few words,” Pitchfork’s Sophie Kemp writes. Read the rest of the Best New Music review here. 

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Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble: NOW [International Anthem]

NOW is the second album from interdisciplinary artist Damon Locks and his Chicago-based Black Monument Ensemble, a lineup that here includes clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid and multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay. Like its 2019 predecessor, Where Future Unfolds, NOW addresses Black liberation as explored through samples from archival multimedia recordings and improvisation-guided jazz channels. Locks said in a statement, “It was about expressing possibility. It was about asking the question, ‘Since the future has unfolded and taken a new and dangerous shape… what happens NOW?’”

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BROCKHAMPTON: ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE [Question Everything/RCA]

After sharing and removing new material on streaming services twice last May, BROCKHAMPTON returned in  March with “BUZZCUT,” with Danny Brown in tow. It was the first single from their next record ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE. They’ve since released the single “COUNT ON ME,” which features A$AP Rocky, Shawn Mendes, and Ryan Beatty.

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Matthew E. White / Lonnie Holley: Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection [Spacebomb/Jagjaguwar]

Musician and sculptor Lonnie Holley joins producer and singer-songwriter Matthew E. White on Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection. The two developed the project from loose recordings that White had made with bandmates in Richmond, Virginia, with White recruiting 71-year-old Holley to add vocals to the instrumentals. The album’s five pieces include “This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14” and “I’m Not Tripping/Composition 8.” 

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Yaya Bey: The Things I Can’t Take With Me EP [Big Dada]

Yaya Bey’s new EP, The Things I Can’t Take With Me, is an interlude between last year’s Madison Tapes and another full-length that the Brooklyn artist says is in the works. The six-track project includes the February single “fxck it then.” “[The album] is going to be about the journey home to self,” she said in a statement. “But on the way, there’s all this shit I gotta let go of, just the things I can’t take with me.”

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Yoshinori Hayashi: Pulse of Defiance [Smalltown Supersound]

Tokyo-based producer Yoshinori Hayashi bends elements of house, jazz, dub, and more on Pulse of Defiance. He shared “Touch” and “I Believe in You” from the project ahead of its release. Pulse of Defiance follows 2019’s Ambivalence and a subsequent EP titled γ

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Vijay Iyer Trio: Uneasy [ECM]

Bassist Linda May Han Oh and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey join renowned jazz pianist Vijay Iyer on Uneasy, their first album for ECM as a trio. The pieces attempt to reckon with injustices in the United States, such as the Movement for Black Lives (“Combat Breathing”) and the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan (“Children of Flint”). The ensemble also reinterpret the Cole Porter standard “Night and Day” alongside Iyer’s other original compositions. 

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