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 Saya Gray, Youth Lagoon, Tate McRae, Nao, Baths, Pissgrave, Anxious, and Eem Triplin. 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.)

Saya Gray: Saya [Dirty Hit]

There comes a point in Saya Gray’s trick-mirror music where it’s best to accept that you can’t predict what’s coming next. On Saya, which follows the Qwerty EPs and 19 Masters, the Japanese Canadian singer-songwriter traverses alt-rock, off-kilter pop, and smirking R&B, processesing the dissolution of a romantic relationship to the tune of chilly harpsichord (“Shell ( Of a Man )”) and slow-motion bass beats (“H.B.W.”), among much more. “I’ve been hyper-intuitive—extrasensory perception—from the moment I was cognitive,” she once told Pitchfork. The musical precision and range of Saya puts those observations into sound.

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Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream [Fat Possum]