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 projects from Stereolab, Smerz, Sparks, Sophia Kennedy, MSPaint, These New Puritans, Home Is Where, and Lindstrøm. 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.)

Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film [Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp]

In the 15 years since their last proper album, Stereolab have kept busy with ongoing reunion tours and a reissue program to rival that of the Beatles. Now, the maestros of kosmische indie-pop have come to reclaim their crown, returning to the studio with 13 originals that whirr and whizz with the same analog-chanson joy that has made them a perennial inspiration to alternative pop tinkerers for decades. Read Ben Cardew’s review of Instant Holograms on Metal Film.

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