Trying to keep up with this week’s new music? Every Friday, we round up new albums available on streaming services on one page. This week check out Yves Tumor’s Praise be to the Lord who chews…100 hexes 10,000 GECIt’s Gee’s Crazyand more.
Eve Tumor, Glory to the Lord who chews but does not consume (or simply, hot between the worlds)
Their transformation from an underground artist combining noise, ambient and loops into a futuristic glam rock extraterrestrial has been nothing short of a revelation. After the breakout in 2020 Heaven for a tortured mind (#6 on our year-end album list) Yves Tumor builds on his dynasty with Praise be to the Lord who chews…not just a reclamation of rock, but a sweeping celebration of how the Black Genius fueled so much of what is challenging in modern music.
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100 GEC, 10,000 GEC
In the time since 100 gecs released their debut album 1000 GEC in 2019, an entire subgenre known as hyperpop has come and gone, its birth inspired by the exuberant style of Laura Less and Dylan Brady — it’s channeling the energy of millions of open YouTube tabs and fueled by a buffet of gas station food. 10,000 GEC arrives in a very different world from its predecessor, but the GECs are eager to prove that their art isn’t as fleeting as the sugar rushes it evokes.
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IS Gee, CRAZY
EST Gee may no longer be a freshman, but the Kentucky rapper has lost none of the hunger that made him a star and sought-after collaborator. A project he billed as “not for the industry,” CRAZY fittingly, it doesn’t feature pop-friendly rappers, instead sticking to Boosie Badass and Young Scooter. Gee shared singles from the project throughout the year: “If I Stop Now,” “Blow Up,” “Undefeated” and “25 Min Freestyle.”
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i like Keed Talk to ‘Em 2
Keed Talk to ‘Em 2 is the first posthumous album by Atlanta’s Lil Kidd, the iconic and quietly influential YSL rapper who died of eosinophilia in May 2022. Kidd’s mother, Toni Woods-Reid, wrote in a letter shared on Instagram that Kidd was working on the album at the time of his death. Young Thug, NAV, Big Sean, Trippie Redd and more appear on 20 tracks.
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m83, Fantasy
M83 rose to prominence as a towering beacon of sincerity in the blog age with their soulful electronic compositions. They can be inspired by shoegaze, adjacent to Vangelis or in the case of their most successful albums Saturday = Youth and Hurry up, we’re dreaming, love letters to escapist pop music. Bandleader Anthony Gonzalez returns to this mode for new album M83 Fantasyout today.
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fatal crash, Less EP
Less is a seven-song collection of devastating slowcore from the London band, who have released their second album Return in 2022. Traces of Elliott Smith and Slint can be found around the contours of songs like “Empty Heavy,” “Duffy’s” and “And Now I Am Lit.”
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Tei Shi, A bad feeling EP
The Colombian-Canadian artist presents her new six-song EP as a fresh start. It’s hard to argue with that based on the retro pop crackle of ‘¿QUIEN TE MANDA?’, the after-hours sensuality of ‘BAD PREMONITION’ and the defiant Little Dragon-meets-Aaliyah stomp of ‘GRIP’. “I went through another difficult time where I lost control of my work and my life,” Tay Shi wrote in a press statement, “but eventually I found my confidence and focus again. It took me 2.5 years to get over it, but the songs I wrote during that time helped me remember who I am as an artist.”
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V
Ruban Nielson’s dreamy psychedelic rock band returns today with a double album inspired by family, mortality and the roots of the self. VUMO’s fifth album, contains the 2021 singles ‘That Life’ and ‘Weekend Run’, with ‘Nadja’, ‘Layla’ and ‘Captain Cook’ also making the line-up.
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