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 from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alabaster dePlume, DJ Travella, Christian Lee Hutson, Pastor Champion, and Pillow Queens. 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.)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love [Warner]
Unlimited Love marks the official return of guitarist John Frusciante to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, having last recorded with his long-time associates on 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. (The band’s previous album, 2016’s The Getaway, featured Josh Klinghoffer on guitar.) The boys of Red Hot Chili Peppers return to their freewheeling, fun-seeking selves with songs that highlight their musicianship alongside Anthony Keidis’ enduring love for outrageous wordplay. Read Sam Sodomsky’s review of Unlimited Love.
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Alabaster dePlume: Gold [International Anthem]
Jazz saxophonist and poet Alabaster dePlume encourages kindness and care on Gold, his first new solo album since 2018’s The Corner of a Sphere. With a subtitle of Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love, the album reckons with the discomfort and rewards of vulnerability. DePlume assembled the record from long improvised pieces that he rearranged and stitched together.
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