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 full-length projects from Taylor Swift, Sofia Kourtesis, the Mountain Goats, Ragana, Shabazz Palaces, Murda Beatz & Shordie Shordie, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, María José Llergo, and New Age Doom & Tuvaband. 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.)
Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) [Republic]
Amid what’s been a blockbuster year for the pop star, the latest installment of Taylor Swift’s series of re-recorded “Taylor’s Version” releases has arrived. The update of 1989 includes the previously unreleased “‘Slut!’,” “Say Don’t Go,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Suburban Legends,” and “Is It Over Now?” It also includes new versions of the hit songs “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Wildest Dreams,” and “Bad Blood.”
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Sofia Kourtesis: Madres [Ninja Tune]
