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 projects from Jessica Pratt, Mdou Moctar, Kamasi Washington, Jawnino, Ibibio Sound Machine, Evilgiane & Slimesito, Kacy Hill, Hana Vu, Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, and Jadasea. 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.)

Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch [Mexican Summer]

Here in the Pitch is Jessica Pratt’s first album in half a decade. Pratt previewed her follow-up to 2019’s Quiet Signs with “Life Is,” “World on a String,” and closing track “The Last Year,” all of which are informed by psychedelic 1960s pop. The title, per a press release, refers to “pitch darkness,” as well as bitumen, the black viscous substance that forms deep below the surface of the earth, suggesting a dose of darkness lurking beneath the album’s woozy sheen. Pratt will perform a live set at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago in July.

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Jessica Pratt at Pitchfork Music Festival 2024

Mdou Moctar: Funeral for Justice [Matador]