With so much great music being released all the time, it can be hard to figure out what to listen to first. Each week Pitchfork offers a roundup of major 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 receive our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All pitches featured here are independently curated by our editors. However, when you purchase something through our affiliate links, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Kali Uchis: Red Moon on Venus [Geffen]
Kali Uchis has described her new album as “a timeless and fiery expression of desire, anguish, faith and honesty, reflecting the divine femininity of the moon and Venus.” It includes the lead single “I Wish You Roses”, which, according to Pitchfork’s Isabelia Herrera, evokes “the ethereal litheness of soul legend Minnie Riperton, but also the gravelly, wailing melancholy of jazz titan Sarah Vaughan.” She read Herrera’s profile, “Welcome to Kali Uchis’s tall woman fantasy.”
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Nyokabi Kariũki: feeling body [Cmntx]
