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 billy woods; Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke; PinkPantheress; MIKE & Tony Seltzer; Erika de Casier; Kali Uchis; Cole Pulice; Preoccupations; Kara-Lis Coverdale; and Mclusky. 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.)

billy woods: Golliwog [Backwoodz Studioz]

Remarkably, Golliwog is billy woods’ first album without a dedicated creative partner since 2019’s Terror Management. Nevertheless, he welcomes guest rappers and producers aplenty across the new album’s 18 tracks. Among the contributors are familiar faces like Elucid, the Alchemist, El-P, Preservation, DJ Haram, Kenny Segal, and Despot, to name only a handful. As woods swings from one standout track to the next, he fleshes out a story about an “evil golliwog” that he wrote when he was nine years old and all the realities—displacement, war-torn trauma, love triangles, real-life horror stories—that it can represent.

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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales [Warp]