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 American Football, Tori Amos, Zara Larsson, and Kacey Musgraves. 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.)
American Football: LP4 [Polyvinyl]
Decades into their career, American Football still manage to find new tricks up their sleeves. The veteran Midwest emo group’s fourth record traipses into somewhat novel post-rock, shoegaze, and math-y territory. Yet tracks like lead single “Bad Moons” prove they’re the same old AF from the block, as vocalist Mike Kinsella illustrates in his signature murmur, "I'm just two little boys in a trench coat with plastic knives—I'm scared, and I don’t want to grow up."
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Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons [Universal/Fontana]