{"id":1718543,"date":"2026-01-30T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718543"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:50:08","slug":"11-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-xaviersobased-shackleton-and-joyce-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1718543","title":{"rendered":"11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: xaviersobased, Shackleton, and Joyce Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: xaviersobased, Shackleton, and More<\/h1>\n
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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\u2019s batch includes new albums from xaviersobased, Shackleton, and Joyce Manor. Subscribe to Pitchfork\u2019s<\/em>New Music Friday newsletter<\/em>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.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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xaviersobased: Xavier<\/em> [1-chance \/ Surf Gang Records]<\/h2>\n
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To call xaviersobased\u2019s debut album \u201clong-awaited\u201d might be an understatement. Over two years into a killer run of mixtapes, EPs and load-bearing loosies, it\u2019s hard to fathom that the crown prince of New York underground rap hasn\u2019t dropped an official LP until now. But he takes care to set the 20-track Xavier<\/em> apart from past releases, foregrounding his own production (on lead single \u201ciPhone 16\u201d) and keeping the features list as selective as it is inspired. OsamaSon, Yung Sherman, and Zaytoven under one roof? Consider us enthused.<\/p>\n

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Shackleton:\u00a0Euphoria Bound<\/em>\u00a0[AD 93]<\/h2>\n
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British producer Shackleton has spent over a decade pushing percussion to thrilling highs (and, of course, lows). His label Skull Disco was on the front lines of dubstep\u2019s UK explosion in the mid-2000s, and in recent years he has sought out a diverse array of collaborators, from Tectonic boss Pinch to Italian avant-garde performer Ernesto Tomasini to leftfield Polish composer Waclaw Zimpel. Despite the high bar, his new album Euphoria Bound<\/em> still finds new frequencies to vibrate on, pairing the experimental spirit of jazz with serious bass-weight and spectral vocals. He\u2019s found a pocket that\u2019s both texturally and tonally exciting.<\/p>\n

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Joyce Manor:\u00a0I Used to Go to This Bar<\/em>\u00a0[Epitaph]<\/h2>\n
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Three and a half years have passed since Joyce Manor\u2019s last album, 40 oz. to Fresno<\/em>\u2014the longest gap between LPs since the California pop-punk greats careened into immortality with their self-titled 2011 debut. While age can bring a change of pace, no such slowdown is evident in I Used to Go to This Bar<\/em>. Led by the title track\u2019s scrum of hurtling guitars and nostalgic earworms, the LP zips through West Coast anthems that crackle with the excitement of their return to touring (work on the record began as pandemic restrictions eased in early 2023). Bad Religion\u2019s Brett Gurewitz produces, and Enema of the State<\/em> engineer Tom Lord-Alge makes several contributions.<\/p>\n

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fakemink: The Boy Who Cried Terrified<\/em> [EtnaVeraVela]<\/h2>\n
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One day, the brainrot-fluent bards of the future will spin yarns about the rise of fakemink: the singles that just kept getting better, the Frank Ocean and Playboi Carti cosigns, the Nettspend beef, the countless IG Lives. The UK rapper came out swinging in 2024 with a debut titled London\u2019s Saviour<\/em>, and The Boy Who Cried Terrified<\/em> maintains the inertia of a rocket mid-blastoff. The mixtape, which sets the table for his much-hyped forthcoming album Terrified<\/em>, confidently steps into underground eras past. From sampling Burial\u2019s 2013 track \u201cRival Dealers\u201d on a single to throwing out bars about inspiring Britain\u2019s next generation, he\u2019s pulling out all the stops.<\/p>\n

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Geologist: Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?<\/em> [Drag City]<\/h2>\n
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Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?<\/em> is the Geologist album we were all waiting for: a sprawling, prog-spirited opus designed to answer the question of how it would sound if punk producer Ethan James had made a hurdy gurdy album for SST. Inspired by a Keiji Haino performance he saw in 1998, Brian Weitz made the new album as a roundabout attempt to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming the next Greg Ginn. \u201cI still can\u2019t play or write like my favorites, but the hurdy gurdy got me closer than guitar ever did,\u201d he says in press materials. Fellow Animal Collective member Avey Tare and Weitz\u2019s son Merrick are among the contributors.<\/p>\n

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Don Toliver: Octane<\/em> [Cactus Jack\/Donnway & Co\/Atlantic Records]<\/h2>\n
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Two years after the release of Hardstone Psycho<\/em>, Don Toliver returns to Travis Scott\u2019s label with a new album inspired by rally racing culture and, more broadly, his passion for cars. Aptly titled Octane<\/em>, it\u2019s another showcase of the rapper\u2019s melodic, R&B-inflected trap that plants his voice front and center. He\u2019ll pressure test the record live later this year when he headlines Rolling Loud alongside Playboi Carti and YoungBoy Never Broke Again.<\/p>\n

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The Soft Pink Truth: Can Such Delightful Times Go on Forever?<\/em> [Thrill Jockey]<\/h2>\n
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On his latest solo LP as the Soft Pink Truth, Matmos\u2019 Drew Daniel applies his usual puckish sensibility\u2014and a flex of compositional largesse\u2014to a suite of chamber music that uplifts the anxiety and horror of recent years in a late-Romantic sweep. Presented as his \u201cqueer refuge\u201d and performed by a transcontinental cast of musicians, Can Such Delightful Times Go on Forever?<\/em> is Daniel\u2019s great exhale of beauty into authoritarian times, overflowing with emotions so vast and pulsing they form a temporary shield around those seeking shelter.<\/p>\n

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By Storm: My Ghosts Go Ghost<\/em> [DeadAir]<\/h2>\n
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When their Injury Reserve bandmate Stepa J. Groggs died in 2020, Parker Corey and Ritchie With a T retired the moniker, explaining in a statement that they wanted to \u201crespect the specificity of all three of us.\u201d The duo\u2019s first album under new alias By Storm is instinctive and inextricable from a profound sense of forced metamorphosis\u2014it\u2019s also a pretty intimate affair, with only billy woods contributing a verse to \u201cBest Interest.\u201d Whether art is imitating life or the other way around, this is a new chapter worth tuning into.<\/p>\n

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Lande Hekt: Lucky Now<\/em> [Tapete]<\/h2>\n
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Since her 2021 debut, Going to Hell<\/em>, Lande Hekt has carved a niche equally rooted in British twee-pop and the ecstatic yearn of indie-rock. Written and produced with latter-day Wire guitarist Matthew Simms, Lucky Now<\/em> is the Bristol singer-songwriter\u2019s first album in four years and follow-up to House Without a View<\/em>. \u201cI wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive,\u201d the former Muncie Girls frontperson says of the lyrics, \u201cwhich I\u2019m trying to do more of generally\u2014just to not fall apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Blackwater Holylight: Not Here Not Gone<\/em> [Suicide Squeeze]<\/h2>\n
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Three years ago, hard-rock trio Blackwater Holylight moved south from Portland to Los Angeles, a transition that left them with a blank slate and a sunnier outlook on production. Their new album digs into that transition, adding light synth work to heavier shoegaze riffs and exploring all the emotions associated with a big move\u2014but mostly, the time it takes to settle in. \u201cIf there were to be a theme to the album, it would be patience,\u201d vocalist, guitarist, and bassist Sunny Faris said in a statement. Frequent TV on the Radio and Run the Jewels producer Dave Sitek also features, contributing the beat for instrumental track \u201cGiraffe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zukenee:\u00a0ZUMINATI<\/em> [SlayLife]<\/h2>\n
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Zukenee has long approached the Atlanta rap underground like his own medieval round table\u2014in an average year, you can find him brandishing swords, lighting spliffs with candles, and referencing blood pacts. His last album, 2025\u2019s Slaytanic<\/em>, built his breakout Birth of St. Slay<\/em> into a whole odyssey of pounding hooves, flute melodies, and woodland trysts with fair maidens. On his latest, ZUMINATI<\/em>, he’s tackling a new secret society with a lot more Hollywood clout, but keeping his inner circle hyperlocal\u2014the album\u2019s only guest appearance is fellow Georgia upstart Sk8star, who hops on \u201cGlock Backshots.\u201d<\/p>\n

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