7 Albums Out Today You Should Listen to Now: Angel Olsen, Isaiah Rashad, Patti Smith, More

7 Albums Out Today You Should Listen to Now: Angel Olsen, Isaiah Rashad, Patti Smith, 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, EPs, and compilations from Angel Olsen, Isaiah Rashad, Patti Smith, Soundwalk Collective, and Jesse Paris Smith, serpentwithfeet, Zomby, P.S. Eliot, and Eluvium.
Angel Olsen: MY WOMAN [Jagjaguwar]

MY WOMAN is Angel Olsen’s follow-up to 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness. Olsen worked with producer Justin Raisen on the record. Guest guitarist Seth Kauffman joined her regular band: bassist Emily Elhaj, drummer Joshua Jaeger, and guitarist Stewart Bronaugh. The album is led by three tracks: “Intern,” “Shut Up Kiss Me,” and “Sister,” all of which were named Best New Track. Read our new feature, “This Woman’s Work: The Many of Lives of Angel Olsen.”

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Isaiah Rashad: The Sun’s Tirade [Top Dawg Entertainment]

Isaiah Rashad’s The Sun’s Tirade follows 2014’s Cilvia Demo. It features Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, SZA, and the Internet’s Syd, among others, with production from Mike WiLL Made-It, Cam O’bi, and more. Read our review of the record’s “Free Lunch,” which was named Best New Track.

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Killer Road is a new album from the Soundwalk Collective in collaboration with Patti Smith and her daughter Jesse Paris Smith. It’s a tribute to Nico with a narrative about the singer’s death in 1988. On Killer Road, Smith recites Nico’s poems and lyrics over Soundwalk Collective music. Some of the music on the album was performed on Nico’s actual harmonium, which Smith recovered from a pawn shop in 1978.

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blisters is Baltimore-born NYC transplant Josiah Wise’s debut EP as serpentwithfeet. The EP is preceded by the title track and “Flickering,” which are both produced by the Haxan Cloak. Read our Rising interview with serpentwithfeet, “The Ecstasy of Exorcism.”

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Zomby: Ultra [Hyperdub]

Ultra is Zomby’s first full-length album since 2013’s With Love. It includes the Burial collaboration “Sweetz,” and the Darkstar collaboration “Quandry.”

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P.S. Eliot: 2007-2011 [Don Gionvani]

In 2007, Katie and Allison Crutchfield (best known for work in Waxahatchee and Swearin’, respectively) started a band called P.S. Eliot, which broke up in 2011. 2007-2011 is a compilation of the band’s complete recorded works. It features both of the band’s albums—2009’s Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Minds and 2011’s Sadie—and their 2010 Living in Squalor EP, along with demos and home recordings. Read a portion of the oral history that accompanies the compilation, “How Allison and Katie Crutchfield’s P.S. Eliot Came to Be.”

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Eluvium: False Readings On [Temporary Residence]

False Readings On is Matthew Cooper’s latest album as Eluvium. It follows the 2013 double album Nightmare Ending. It was inspired by “themes of cognitive dissonance in modern society.” False Readings On is led by the single “Fugue State.”

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