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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 Melody’s Echo Chamber, Redveil, Western Vinyl, Voices From the Lake, the Deep, DJ Narciso, Dove Ellis, and Karri. 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.)
Melody’s Echo Chamber: Unclouded [Domino]
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 2022’s Emotional Eternal 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.” Joined by musicians from Dungen, Heliocentrics, and more, Prochet sounds at peace learning how to make her dreams a reality.
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Redveil: Sankofa [Fashionably Early]
On his follow-up to 2022’s Learn 2 Swim, Redveil takes the reins as both rapper and producer to craft the exact type of sound he hears in his head. Sankofa is built atop jazz rhythms, soulful harmonies, and some intentionally blown-out production, meshing his influences to form an impassioned and eclectic listen. Leading the LP are Redveil’s singles “Mini Me,” the Smino collaboration “Brown Sugar,” and “Lone Star,” which features singer Carolyn Malachi; the album’s eclectic back half, meanwhile, showcases what made the teenage rap phenom an artist with big dreams worth following.
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V/A: Passages: Artists in Solidarity With Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers [Western Vinyl]
The timely new compilation Passages: Artists in Solidarity With Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers benefits two Texan organizations supporting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Contributing artists—including Dirty Projectors, Alan Sparhawk, and Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin—followed a loose brief: Write and record in a place that feels like home—because “home, as we know it, is under threat,” the organizers said. Tim Heidecker, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, William Tyler, Lambchop, Lonnie Holley, and Benjamin Booker are among the other featured artists.
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Voices From the Lake: II [Spazio Disponibile]
Some 13 years after their debut, the Italian electronic artists Donato Dozzy and Neel—together operating as Voices From the Lake—return with a follow-up. Their atmospheric, jazz-slanted productions unspool across a 45-minute odyssey of sighing synth tones and diffuse percussion on II. “The project was never meant to become what it did,” the duo said in press materials. “At one point, we even paused it. Only to later embrace it in all its forms. II is both a continuation and a reinvention.”
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The Deep: KPop B!tch [self-released]
KPop B!tch is the debut album from independent K-pop maverick the Deep, formerly one half of Morethan7. Combining elements of UK garage, hyperpop, hip-hop, and blog house in hectic, high-stakes productions, the album features contributions from Frost Children, Dorian Electra, and Kimj.
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DJ Narciso: Dentro De Mim [Svbkvlt]
Lisbon’s own DJ Narciso turned around Dentro De Mim, his latest extended EP, by combining seven songs with remixes from Swimful and Kop-Z. But his originals stand on their own, with bulbous beats that invite even the most tepid dancer into Portugal’s underground club scene. Here, he latches onto fragments of time by way of crisp memories, clinging to the feelings that transport him back to the past and figuring out a way to translate each unique one into a song.
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Dove Ellis: Blizzard [Black Butter/AMF]
On debut album Blizzard, Dove Ellis entwines the bombast of American folk-pop with the chills and intricacies of his native Ireland. The singer-songwriter is releasing the album off the back of a tour with Geese, part of a transatlantic connection that sets him apart from his contemporaries in the south London folk scene.
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Karri: Slider II [PFL]
Since crossing over from the TikTok viral fame of 2023 single “3AM in Oakland,” Karri has become a maestro of R&B seductions and late-night confessionals indebted to the lineage of his native Bay Area. Slider II, a sequel to Late Night Slider Music, includes “Go,” the rising singer’s Kehlani-assisted flip of E-40’s “Tell Me When to Go.”
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Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Melody’s Echo Chamber’s new album, Unclouded, is the follow-up to 2018’s Bon Voyage. Melody’s Echo Chamber released the studio album Emotional Eternal in between Bon Voyage and Unclouded.
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