#new-releases

#new-releases

85-year-old James L. Brooks has such an enviable track record as a TV creator (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons), and movie writer/director (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, As Good as It Gets), that it's hard not to hope for the best when he makes his first feature film in 15 years. Alas, this treacly, tone-deaf dramedy centered on the travails of its titular idealist will be nobody's idea of a good time.

Melody Prochet took the title for her new Melody's Echo Chamber album, Unclouded, from a Hayao Miyazaki quote about achieving equilibrium and clearing away hate to create space for acceptance. The follow-up to 2018's Bon Voyage is a showcase for suitably unburdened and dreamy psych-pop with rolling basslines and reverb-cloaked vocals, resulting in music that's more floral wisps than paisley curls. Even the song titles themselves invoke a trippy 1970s film: Eyes Closed, The House That Doesn't Exist, Flowers Turn Into Gold.

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.

"It's very much inspired by the history of our city and the Gaol house that stood on the south gate bridge many years ago, lyrically I had hoped to evoke images of silhouetted city walls and security fences," says frontman Euan Manning. "Sometimes aesthetics can carry a song from its inception to its completion. Kevin Barry's novel 'City of Bohane' also served as inspiration for a gothic re-imagining of Cork."

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music.

On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you'd gladly send to a friend.

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 Taylor Swift, Malibu, Kelly Moran, Snooper, Nala Sinephro, Thirteendegrees º, Peel Dream Magazine, Blue Lake, Klein, Prewn, and Agriculture.

The trend of 'set-jetting' is on the rise, with travelers increasingly inspired by locations featured in films and TV shows such as The White Lotus in Thailand and Bridgerton in Bath.

The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you'd gladly send to a friend.

Kaizen - A Factory Story is a puzzler set in 1980s Japan where players build popular electronics like calculators and arcade cabinets.

Archaeologists have conjured vivid portraits of humankind's past from recovered relics, though experimental archaeology captures sounds, smells, and tastes that traditional methods cannot convey.

"Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy-a guiding light in all of my music. It’s shaped by my love of the melancholic songwriting traditions of Europe from composers like Monteverdi and John Dowland, all the way to 90s Eurodance and the uplifting trance of the 2000s-artists like Gigi D'Agostino and Alice Deejay."

Cash Cobain is set to embark on his inaugural headlining tour, the Party With Slizzy Tour, stretching across 22 locations in the U.S. and Canada this fall.