Daily Newsletter, May 27, 2024

The new albums from Young Jesus and Vince Staples should be at the top of your queue today. Tap in and find a new obsession.

Stream new releases from Vince Staples, Diiv, Shenseea, Young Jesus, James Devane, Nathy Peluso, and Mui Zyu

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.)

It's New Music Friday, and once more The FADER is rounding up all the albums you should stream. Today, hear new projects from DIIV, Young Jesus, Mui Zyu, and more.

"I’ve been very bored with R&B," snapped K Michelle when I interviewed her a few weeks ago. She went on to take aim at 1) white artists continuing to displace black artists on the radio and in the mainstream consciousness, 2) misogynist bro-R&B "talking about [women] like we’re trash" courtesy of the likes of Chris […]

On our survey of the week's most exciting new albums, WRTI's Nate Chinen and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce get all wrapped up in the amniotic embrace of a new album by a guru of the L.A. ambient-jazz scene.The new album by Carlos Niño & Friends is called Placenta. If you know anything about Niño, you'll probably be able to guess that the subject that title suggests — pregancy and childbirth — are taken very seriously. Those "Friends" are crucial too: Niño has become a central figure in a scene whose reverberations are starting to be felt well beyond the community itself, and are drawing more artists in. You can hear Niño on André 3000's flute album New Blue Sun, and André returns the favor here.Also this week: The fourth album by DIIV sees the indie rock group leaning into shoegaze-inspired sounds, and Andrew Bird creates an album in tribute to the "Golden Era" jazz tunes of the 1930s and '40s he heard on Sunday morning radio shows as a young adult in Chicago.Featured Albums:• Carlos Niño & Friends, Placenta• DIIV, Frog in Boiling Water• Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On Other notable albums out May 24: • Tiny Habits, All For Something• Vince Staples, Dark Times• Alex Sipiagin, Horizons• Machinedrum, 3FOR82• Joshua Moshier, semipermanence• Nathy Peluso, Grasa

Don't miss this week's best new songs, featuring Ben Katzman, Horse Jumper of Love, Clairo, Vince Staples & more!

La Luz explore the intricacies and emotional experience of being human in an uncertain world. The album draws upon an apocalyptic theme, running deeper than being simply an indie or rock piece, News of the Universe travels beyond time, genre, and lyrical boundaries.

This week's playlist features Oranssi Pazuzu, Amyl and The Sniffers, Vince Staples, Growing Stone, WHY?, Bizhiki, Young Jesus, The Chameleons, and more

Five covers of Neil Young's "Powderfinger" capture a young man's final futile moments of life, their different spins not lessening the impact.