8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Diiv, Queens of the Stone Age, and More

Skip to main contentNewsletterNewsReviewsBest New MusicFeaturesListsColumnsVideoAlso stream new releases from Heathers and Andy StottCourtesy of DIIVWith 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 TK. 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.)DIIV: ZIRP! [Fantasy]Despite writing the new DIIV album in a period of chaos—welcoming his second child amid fallout from the destruction of his home in the Altadena wildfires—Zachary Cole Smith went into ZIRP! in a spirit of unbridled, determined fun. Buoyed along by an unlikely producer in A. G. Cook, the band compacts its trademark shoegaze sound into nuggets of electro-pop joy, the smothering haze coexisting with effervescent hooks that go down as easily as pop-punk alcopops.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeAndy Stott: Late Loop [Modern Love]For Andy Stott’s music to hit hardest, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and envision the world in slow motion. The electronic producer moves carefully through every song, as if reducing listeners’ heartbeats is the trick to making them see everything around them. On his first album in five years, Late Loop, Stott transformed experimental drone into downtempo trance songs by enlisting vocalists Alison Skidmore and Elaine Howley to articulate a few observations—how pressure leads to escape, or mirrors can extend forever—that turn into mantras.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeHeathers: Awesome [Warner]blurb tkListen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeBrat Star: Southern Ontario Gothic [Pre Lapsarian]blurb tkListen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeDream Unending: Certain Uncertainties [20 Buck Spin]blurb tkListen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeLydia Loveless: Accolades [Bloodshot]blurb tkListen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeQueens of the Stone Age: Perfecth [Matador]In the world of Queens of Stone Age, nobody’s perfect, but you can be perfecth. For a band that’s been around for three decades—and spent much of their 2023 album, In Times New Roman…, discussing how twisted, messy, and dark life can get— coming to terms with the inevitability of your own blemishes seems like the logical next step. On Perfecth, you can hear the band loosening their shoulders after a long, grueling battle with acceptance. In some of the stoner-rocker’s most relaxed and spacious music in years, they muse on heartbreak, sex, and purifying catharsis.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeKali Malone: Burning Song [Ideologic Organ]J.S. Bach spent the last 27 years of his life working as the music director at Thomaskirche, a Lutheran church located in Leipzig, Germany. It’s the same location Kali Malone recorded music on two late nights in August with cellist Lucy Railton and Stephen O’Malley, who joined on bowed acoustic guitar. The session has now become Burning Song, a ruminative album that reveals its quiet beauty layer by layer, like ocean water slowly breaking down rock.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough Trade