#9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Tyler, the Creator, Faye Webster, Lucy Dacus, SPELLLING, and More

“#9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Tyler, the Creator, Faye Webster, Lucy Dacus, SPELLLING, 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 Tyler, the Creator, Faye Webster, Lucy Dacus, SPELLLING, L’Rain, Hiatus Kaiyote, Mabe Fratti, Birds of Maya, and Eli Keszler. 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.)

Tyler, the Creator: Call Me If You Get Lost [Columbia]

After flying a phone number on some billboards, dropping the “Side Street” teaser, sharing a skit called “Brown Sugar Salmon,” and previewing the songs “Lumberjack” and “WusYaName,” Tyler, the Creator has offered up the follow-up to 2019’s Igor. Contributors to Call Me If You Get Lost include Lil Uzi Vert, Jamie xx, DJ Drama, Domo Genesis, 42 Dugg, Lil Wayne, and more.

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Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funny haha [Secretly Canadian]

I Know I’m Funny haha is Atlanta’s Faye Webster’s follow-up to 2019’s Atlanta Millionaires Club. As Jeremy D. Larson wrote in his Best New Music review, “It’s probably one of the best records of the year lol.” Read additional track reviews of “In a Good Way,” “Better Distractions,” and “Cheers.”

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Lucy Dacus: Home Video [Matador]

The latest album from Lucy Dacus features the previously released songs “Brando,” “VBS,” “Hot & Heavy,” and “Thumbs.” Learn more about the album in Pitchfork’s feature “Lucy Dacus Breaks Down Every Song on Her Nostalgic Third Album, Home Video.”

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SPELLLING: The Turning Wheel [Sacred Bones]

Chrystia Cabral’s new album as SPELLLING was led by the single “Little Deer”—a song she called a “thesis track” of the LP because “it accomplishes this strong impression of theater that I was striving for with the album as a whole.” Learn more in the new feature “How Dracula, Tarot Cards, and Drinking in the Shower Inspired SPELLLING’s New Album.”

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L’Rain: Fatigue [Mexican Summer]

L’Rain—aka Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek—made her debut in 2017 with L’Rain. She’s now released her sophomore record Fatigue on her new label Mexican Summer. Read Pitchfork’s track review of “Blame Me.”

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Hiatus Kaiyote: Mood Valiant [Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune]

Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield, Paul Bender, Simon Mavin, and Perrin Moss released their last Hiatus Kaiyote album Choose Your Weapon in 2015. The new album is a collaboration with Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai, and it features the previously shared singles “Red Room” and “Get Sun.”

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Mabe Fratti: Será que ahora podremos entendernos? [Unheard of Hope]

Mabe Fratti is a Guatemala-born, Mexico City–based experimental composer and cellist. Será que ahora podremos entendernos? marks her second studio album, following her 2019 debut Pies Sobre la Tierra. Fratti recorded the new nine-track album at La Orduña, an artist loft converted from an old juice factory in Veracruz, Mexico.

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Birds of Maya: Valdez [Drag City]

Philadelphia’s Birds of Maya—the trio of Jason Killinger (of Spacin’), Ben Leaphart (of Watery Love), and Mike Polizze (of Purling Hiss)—recorded Valdez in 2014. The collection of scuzzy jams is finally seeing the light of day courtesy of Drag City. All but two of its six songs are over seven minutes long.

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Eli Keszler: Icons [LuckyMe]

Icons is the latest from New York–based percussionist and composer Eli Keszler. Keszler—who has collaborated with Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo, and Rashad Becker—utilized both acoustic and electronic percussion for his solo album. The 11-track LP also features panoramic recordings of New York and other audio from his international travels.

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