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 projects from Alex G; Raekwon; DJ Haram; Che; Anycia & DJ Drama; $ilkMoney; Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka; Jim Legxacy; Disiniblud; Cleo Reed; Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes; and Zac Farro. 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.)

Alex G returns with his 10th studio LP—and his first on a major label. Headlights, the singer-songwriter’s RCA debut, follows 2022’s God Save the Animals. Speaking in press materials, Alex G described the songs on his new album as an amalgam of “absurd twists and mundane milestones.” He shared lead single “Afterlife” back in May, along with a music video directed by Charlotte Rutherford, followed by the tracks “June Guitar” and “Oranges.” Read more about the new album in Pitchfork’s profile “The (Real) Alex G.”

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Raekwon: The Emperor’s New Clothes [Mass Appeal]

For his new album, The Emperor’s New Clothes, veteran rapper Raekwon got features from several big names in New York hip-hop. The 17-track LP includes guest spots from Raekwon’s Wu-Tang Clan bandmates Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, and Method Man, as well as fellow New York native Nas. He also got rap’s marquee Buffalonians, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, and Westside Gunn, to appear on “Wild Corsicans.” The Emperor’s New Clothes is Raekwon’s first solo album since 2017’s The Wild.

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DJ Haram: Beside Myself [Hyperdub]

Beside Myself is the debut solo album from DJ Haram. Across the 14-track LP, the producer fuses club beats, acidic bars, and Middle Eastern percussion into a slightly sinister shade of electronica. DJ Haram enlists a bevy of collaborators for the roiling project, including Moor Mother, Bbymutha, Armand Hammer, Abdul Hakim Bilal, Kayy Drizz, Carmen Nebula, and others.

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Che: Rest in Bass [10K Projects]

After releasing a string of singles this year, young Atlanta rapper Che follows his 2024 debut, Sayso Says, with Rest in Bass. The new album includes the glitchy, chip tune-ish cut “Hellraiser,” which features a guest spot from OsamaSon. Che teased his album last month in a grainy video that cut between the rapper giving scant details on the release and shots of something engulfed in flames. Prior to dropping Rest in Bass, Che shared the non-album tracks “Pose for the Pic,” “Love (MKB),” and “Green Day.”

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Anycia & DJ Drama: Grady Baby [UnitedMasters]

Atlanta MC Anycia is back with a new mixtape hosted by DJ Drama. Grady Baby, the follow-up to last year’s Princess Pop That, includes the singles “Put Up,” “Never Need,” and “No Scrub,” the latter of which nods to the hit 1999 single by Atlanta legends TLC. Grady Baby, like Princess Pop That, centers around Anycia’s smoky low register and subtly layered beats.

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$ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? [Lex]

Say it with me: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and the Fruits No Longer Bear? That is the title for $ilkMoney’s latest album. The Richmond, Virginia, rapper and former Divine Council member is back after three years, when he dropped his 2022 full-length I Don’t Give a F**k About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don’t Feel Like It Anymore. The new LP features laidback, funk-inflected beats and $ilkMoney’s rapid flow. Joining him on the record are co-producer Kahlil Blu and Mutant Academy producer Sycho Sid.

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Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka: Hiraeth [Unsound]

For their second joint album, Hiraeth, Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka recorded acoustic instruments during a nature retreat in southern Poland. Armed with just a guitar, a zither, and a portable Nagra reel-to-reel tape machine, they captured the framework of the soothing, softly undulating sounds of this 13-song work. Months later, they reconvened in a Copenhagen studio, carefully layering old synths and organs into the mix. Both artists sing on the album, their celestial voices braiding in with delicate instrumentation.

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Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (2025) [XL]

British rapper, singer, and producer Jim Legxacy has been teasing his new mixtape since he signed to XL Recordings last year. The 15-song Black British Music (2025) includes the singles “Father” and “Stick.” It follows Legxacy’s 2023 release Homeless N***a Pop Music.

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Disiniblud: Disiniblud [Smugglers Way]

Disiniblud is the first collaborative project from Philadelphia-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith and Brooklyn composer and experimental musician Rachika Nayar. The record spans 11-tracks, drawing from ambient, classical, jazz, and various electronic genres. Disiniblud features Julianna Barwick, Katie Dey, and others.

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Cleo Reed: Cuntry [self-released]

Cleo Reed, a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, has described Cuntry as a “folk rap album that tells stories of American labor, empirical agenda, and intends to hold space for the working class.” Reed added that the album deals with the body, “particularly the Black Femme body.” Throughout the songs on Cuntry you will hear collaborators such as billy woods, Isa Reyes, Elliott Skinner, Iwewe, Momo Boyd, Malaya, Harlem Farr, Matthew Jamal, and Kyle Kidd. Reed wrote and produced the entirety of Cuntry.

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Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes: Adventure Club [Polyvinyl]

Last year, Laura Jane Grace went to Greece via an invitation from the Onassis Foundation. The organization wanted her to transform a century-old Greek poem into a song for a documentary focusing on inmates and artistic expression. While abroad, Grace and a band of local punks visited ancient ruins, swam in the Aegean sea, and recorded the song “Walls” to satisfy their commitment to the foundation. The trip so inspired Grace that she returned six months later on a full residency with the Onassis Foundation and recorded her new album, Adventure Club, with the same musicians she met on the previous trip. Joined by her wife and collaborator, Paris Campbell Grace, bassist Jacopo Fokas, and drummer Orestis Lagadinos, the outfit was dubbed: Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes.

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Zac Farro: Operator [Congrats]

Operator is the latest solo project from Paramore drummer Zac Farro, who has recorded for years under his Halfnoise moniker. The nine-song LP blends country twang with breezy indie-rock, and draws upon “deeply personal” subject matter, as Farro mentioned in a press release. The musician recorded Operator with his Nashville-based pals Josh Gilligan and Matt Chancey.

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