Daily Newsletter, May 12, 2024

The new albums from Jessica Pratt and Mdou Moctar should be at the top of your queue today. Tap in and find a new obsession.

This week's Notable Releases include Knocked Loose, Yaya Bey, How To Dress Well, Hot Water Music, and more.

Way To Be carries more confidence while maintaining an atmosphere of creative pop melodies and rhythmic exploration. Nick Llobet's guitar work is fluid and breathtaking yet capable of veering into angry eruptions of distortion and fury, adding tension and a sense of chaos that plays well w

Stream new releases from Yaya Bey, Amen Dunes, A. G. Cook, Chief Keef, Sisso & Maiko, Les Savy Fav, Keeley Forsyth, and YhapoJJ

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

This week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered showcases artists stretching limits across a wide spectrum of genres. NPR Music editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre dig into the most exciting albums out May 10, 2024, from a juggernaut of the Mexican regional scene experimenting with song forms and sounds from across Latin America to an R&B singer getting loose after portraying a jazz icon to a blockbuster collection of contemporary indie artists pulled together for the soundtrack of a discombobulating movie rooted in the 1990s. Featured Albums:• Grupo Frontera, Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada• Andra Day, Cassandra (cherith)• Various Artists, I Saw the TV Glow Original SoundtrackOther notable albums out May 10:• Yaya Bey, Ten Fold• Les Savy Fav, OUI LSF• I. Jordan, I Am Jordan• Ryan Castro, El Cantante del Ghetto• Amen Dunes, Death Jokes• Arab Strap, I'm totally fine with it don't give a f*** anymore• Brad Mehldau, After Bach II• Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré• Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance• Chief Keef, Almighty So 2• Conway the Machine, Slant Face Killah• Dehd, Poetry• Gunna, One of Wun• How To Dress Well, I Am Toward You• Jim White and Marisa Anderson, Swallowtail• Kelsey Waldon, There's Always a Song• Kings of Leon, Can We Please Have Fun• Mick Harvey, Five Ways to Say Goodbye• Morgan Guerin, Tales of the Facade• Myriam Gendron, Mayday• Orville Peck, Stampede, Vol. 1• Shannon & the Clams, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place

Atwood's staff share the music they've been listening to: This week's roundup includes Gracie Abrams, Guster, Lucius & Marcus Mumford, Rum Jungle, Pomme, milk., Valley, NOEL, Sega Bodega, Raghd, Phoebe Go, Kobra Paige, The Howl & The Hum, Lauren Ann, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Egosex, Sam Varga, Sadye, Ceara Cavalieri, Full of Hell, Lisa LeBlanc, & Pocketboy Solid!

Plus: Shannon & The Clams, former Bad Seeds Barry Adamson and Mick Harvey, Dehd and more

Don't miss this week's best new songs, featuring Hinds, Cola, John Cale, Parannoul, Rapsody, Ducks Ltd. & more!