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 Kali Uchis, Nyokabi Kariũki, Kate NV, Young Nudy, Chunky, Morgan Garrett, Majesties, and BabyBaby_Explores. 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.)
Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus [Geffen]
Kali Uchis has described her new album as “a timeless, burning expression of desire, heartbreak, faith, and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus.” It includes lead single “I Wish You Roses,” which Pitchfork’s Isabelia Herrera says conjures “the lissome ethereality of soul legend Minnie Riperton, but also the low, plangent melancholy of jazz titan Sarah Vaughan.” Read Herrera’s profile, “Welcome to Kali Uchis’ High-Femme Fantasy.”
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Nyokabi Kariũki: Feeling Body [Cmntx]
Feeling Body is the debut full-length from Kenyan composer Nyokabi Kariũki, following her 2022 EP, Peace Places: Kenyan Memories. Feeling Body was inspired by Kariũki’s experience with long Covid. “I am ever in awe of our bodies, and how they keep going, despite and in spite of all the pain we go through in life,” Kariũki said when announcing the LP. “In a way, this album is an expression of love, and gratitude, to my own.” The new album includes contributions from violinist and vocalist Yaz Lancaster, bassist Ian Fales, drummer Chris O’Leary, and trumpeter Michael Denis Ó Callaghan. Check out Pitchfork’s track reviews of Kariũki’s “Equator Song” and “Nazama.”
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Kate NV: Wow [Rvng Intl.]
Since releasing her 2020 full-length Room for the Moon, Russian experimental pop artist Kate NV has shared a collection of eight improvisations (made with Andrey Bessonov) to benefit Ukrainian refugees, and launched Decisive Pink, her duo with Angel Deradoorian. Now, NV is back with a new solo album, Wow, which she announced with the release of “Oni (They).” The 11-song record also includes “Early Bird,” issued last fall. Revisit Pitchfork’s Moodboard feature “Kate NV on the 9 Things That Inspired Her Excellent New Album, Room for the Moon.”
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Young Nudy: Gumbo [PDE/RCA]
Prolific Atlanta rapper Young Nudy is back with Gumbo, a 13-track project where every song is named after something edible (see: “Duck Meat,” “Hot Grease,” and “McChicken”). The LP follows last summer’s EA Monster, and features guest verses from Key Glock and Nudy’s cousin 21 Savage on “Pot Roast” and “Peaches & Eggplants,” respectively. Revisit “Young Nudy Is Putting the Bullshit Behind Him” on the Pitch.
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Chunky: Somebody’s Child [Eglo]
Somebody’s Child is the debut album from Manchester rapper and producer Chunky. The full-length, which features interviews with his family and focuses on his roots in Zimbabwe, has contributions from Rolla, Metrodome, and Not4Many.
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Morgan Garrett: Extreme Fantasy [Orange Milk]
On Extreme Fantasy, the experimental noise artist Morgan Garrett emphasises the word “extreme.” Spoken word mixes with feedback, searing guitars, and screaming. That said, the Philadelphian has described it as “certainly my most refined and accessible audio production yet.”
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Majesties: Vast Reaches Unclaimed [20 Buck Spin]
Vast Reaches Unclaimed is the debut album from the melodic death metal trio Majesties. The band features members of two different Minneapolis black metal bands. Tanner Anderson is from Obsequiae, while Carl Skildum and Matthew Kirkwold are members of Inexorum.
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BabyBaby_Explores: Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow [No Gold]
With an album titled for two of the most prolifically Googled phrases in the world, BabyBaby_Explores is a project from the Providence, Rhode Island, trio whose members identify as Lids B-day, sam m-h, and Gabe C-D. It comes courtesy of No Gold, the artist support company started by Liars’ Angus Andrew.
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