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 Lady Gaga, Harto Falión & Evilgiane, Tokimonsta, Star 99, Hamilton Leithauser, the Tubs, Sasami, and Tobacco City. 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.)

Lady Gaga: Mayhem [Interscope]

Lady Gaga teased LG7 for so long that, when “Disease” arrived with news of the album release, it could easily have been underwhelming. But that would not be the Lady Gaga way. Instead came a juggernaut so abundant in hooks, harmonic pivots, and gleefully indulgent production flourishes that it sounds like the result of a sinister plan to option every unclaimed hit on the marketplace and Frankenstein it into one maximalist pop symphony. Mayhem also features the EDM/Eurodisco hybrid “Abracadabra,” along with—why not?—her rock’n’soul ballad with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile.” Anything goes, in other words, as Gaga finds herself “returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” as she put it in press materials.

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Harto Falión & Evilgiane: The Hurtless [Surf Gang]