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 Sleater-Kinney, Green Day, Mary Halvorson, Ana Tijoux, Donato Dozzy, Cowboy Sadness, Packs, and Bolts of Melody. 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.)
Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope [Loma Vista]
Tutu Lee
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker return with a new Sleater-Kinney record, the follow-up to 2021’s Path of Wellness. The new LP, Little Rope, was borne, in part, out of tragedy: the deaths of Brownstein’s parents in a car accident while vacationing in Italy. In the ensuing months, she turned to music: “I don’t think I’ve played guitar that much since my teens or early twenties,” she said in press materials. “Literally moving my fingers across the fretboard for hours on end to remind myself I was still capable of basic motor skills, of movement, of existing.” Working with producer John Congleton, the band turned songs of grief, loneliness, and transformation into a rich tapestry of indie-pop anthems.
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Green Day: Saviors [Reprise/Warner]
