One of Jamaican dancehall’s biggest crossover stars, Popcaan shares his fifth studio album and second for Drake’s label OVO Sound. Great Is He follows the acclaimed 2020 project FIXTAPE, No. 10 on our end-of-year albums list, and contains the singles “We Caa Done” featuring Drake, “Set It,” “Next To Me,” and “Skeleton Cartier.”

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The long-running Canadian hardcore group’s sixth album is their shortest yet, coming in at a relatively terse 40 minutes, but it doesn’t lack for detail or energy. Vocalist Damian Abraham and guitarist Mike Haliechuk discussed the project’s most recent single “Cicada” on this week’s episode of The FADER Interview.

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Let’s Start Here finds the influential Atlanta rapper in a more experimental mode after landing a huge viral hit last year with “Poland,” one of our favorite songs of 2022.

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Chicago’s Oozing Wound make feel-bad noise-rock with an entrancing misanthropy. “Hypnic Jerk,” the most recent single from their sixth album, was playlisted when it came out for Songs You Need.

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Samia continues to distinguish herself in the crowded field of pop-leaning indie rock singer-songwriters with her sophomore project Honey, out today. Announced in August, Honey contains “Kill Her Freak Out,” a Best Rock Song of the month last year, as well as “Pink Balloons” and “Sea Lions.”

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English electronic artist SG Lewis wrote his new album during the pandemic, enlisting collaborators like Channel Tres, Charlotte Day Wilson, Ty Dolla $ign, and Tove Lo to explore the theme of love and its competing appearances, represented here in a double album format. “AudioLust is the darker, lusty, infatuated, short-lived, and ego-driven version of love,” he says in a press statement. “The second half represents a much deeper, actualized, and fulfilled version of love.

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The sophomore album from Montreal-based songwriter Jonah Yano is a personal history of sorts, tracking his relationship with his grandfather and family in Japan and reckoning with the dissolution of a romantic relationship. BADBADNOTGOOD produces the new record.

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The veteran, Vermont-based garage rocker releases his sixth studio album today, a project “about love and nature and youth” that’s co-written and co-produced by SASAMI.

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Swedish label YEAR0001 enlists signed artists and friends for its second charity compilation benefitting Ingen människa är illegal, an organization helping refugees and undocumented immigrants in Sweden obtain permanent residence. Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital, Clip, Malibu, Mechatok, Merely, and more contribute songs to the collection.

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Angel Electronics is Ada Rook, one half of the experimental industrial-pop group Black Dresses, and Ash Nerve. Their debut album dropped earlier this week, and its blend of pop-punk, noise, and metal is a candy-covered haymaker.

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New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif teams up with producer Roper Williams for his new EP, released on Thursday. His remarkable flow, something between a possession and a bad trip, matches well with the swirling samples. You’ll hear features from Bruiser Wolf and Elucid.

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A producer on the vanguard of underground Atlanta rap, Popstar Benny stays relevant thanks to an ability to try different styles and make them all sound his own (read his Beat COnstruction profile here). His new album enlists Tony Shhnow, Bear1Boss, and many more.

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Everyone’s favorite psycho-jazz luminaries are back with a compilation of rare collaborations. Collected from private-press 45s, Wolf Eyes latest features joint tracks with Alex Moskos (Drainolith), Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway (formerly a member of Wolf Eyes himself), and Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné-American composer Raven Chacon.

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ORA77K explodes out of the chute with their second C0DE$W1TCH album, a showcase of the Hawthorne, California artist’s talent for pushing hip-hop to its extremes. Out on A2B2 Records, the bold imprint of Death Grips’ Andy Morin, the project is an obliterating thrill ride co-produced by Morin himself.

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