8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Indigo De Souza, Turnstile, Big Red Machine, Chvrches, and More
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 Indigo De Souza, Turnstile, Big Red Machine, Chvrches, Nite Jewel, Water From Your Eyes, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler, and Bendik Giske. 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.)
Indigo De Souza: Any Shape You Take [Saddle Creek]
Any Shape You Take is the sophomore studio album from North Carolina musician Indigo De Souza, who co-produced the record with Brad Cook. The LP follows the recent reissue of De Souza’s debut I Love My Mom. Check out Pitchfork’s reviews of “Kill Me” and Best New Track “Hold U.”
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Turnstile: Glow On [Roadrunner]
Baltimore band Turnstile are back with the follow-up to 2018’s Time & Space. The new LP features Blood Orange on both lead single “Alien Love Call” and “Lonely Dezires.” Turnstile’s Brendan Yates co-produced the album with Mike Elizondo. Glow On includes “Holiday,” “Mystery,” “No Surprise,” and “T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection),” which made up the Turnstile Love Connection EP that dropped in June.
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Big Red Machine: How Long Do Think It’s Gonna Last? [Jagjaguwar/37d03d]
How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? is Aaron Dessner (of the National) and Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver)’s second Big Red Machine album. The record is filled with guests, including Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Sharon Van Etten, and Anaïs Mitchell. Read Pitchfork’s track review of “Renegade,” featuring Swift.
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Chvrches: Screen Violence [Glassnote]
Screen Violence follows Chvrches’ 2018 LP Love Is Dead. The new album includes lead single “He Said She Said,” as well as “How Not to Drown,” featuring the Cure frontman Robert Smith, and “Good Girls.” Both “How Not to Drown” and “Good Girls” subsequently received remixes by Smith and filmmaker John Carpenter, respectively.
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Nite Jewel: No Sun [Gloriette]
Los Angeles musician Ramona Gonzalez follows her 2017 Nite Jewel album Real High with No Sun, a record inspired by Gonzalez’s research on women’s musical lament practices from her Ph.D studies in musicology at UCLA. The album arrives after the dissolution of Gonzalez’s 12-year marriage, and “questions and remodels the archetype of female pain,” as she put it in press materials. Read Pitchfork’s review of the single “Before I Go.”
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Water From Your Eyes: Structure [Wharf Cat]
Brooklyn-based Nate Amos and Rachel Brown comprise the experimental pop duo Water From Your Eyes. Their latest album Structure is their first for Wharf Cat. It follows the duo’s 2019 release Somebody Else’s Song and the subsequent covers compilation Somebody Else’s Songs. Check out Pitchfork’s Best New Track review of “‘Quotations’,” a reinterpretation of another Structure cut.
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Marisa Anderson / William Tyler: Lost Futures [Thrill Jockey]
Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler announced Lost Futures way back in March. The album’s title originates from a theory embraced by writer Mark Fisher. “For every choice made, every path taken, there are multitudes of choices not made, paths not taken,” Anderson stated in press materials.
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Bendik Giske: Cracks [Smalltown Supersound]
Cracks is the second album from Oslo-born, Berlin-based saxophonist and composer Bendik Giske, following his 2019 debut Surrender. The five-song album includes lead single “Flutter,” which Giske shared alongside a Kiani del Valle–directed music video. The new record is a collaboration between Giske and producer André Bratten. “The tracks wedge themselves into the cracks of our perceived reality to explore them for their beauty,” Giske said in press materials, adding that Cracks is “a celebration of corporeal states and divergent behaviours.”
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