Best New Music This Week: Hey, Nothing, Denzel Currey & Kenny Beats, Westside Cowboy, and More

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Every Friday, we challenge ourselves to sift through new music releases and curate a list of albums we think you should be listening to.

Leading the charge this week is hey, nothing with Hound, the Atlanta duo’s expansive major label debut that pushes their intimate folk foundations into widescreen, emotionally candid territory. Denzel Curry & Kenneth Blume (aka Kenny Beats) reunite for ii, a compact nine-track sequel with features from JPEGMAFIA, Westside Gunn, and Yebba. Manchester’s Westside Cowboy deliver It Goes On, a wildly confident debut that fuses jittery live energy with indie-folk and garage-rock nerve. Squirrel Flower’s Say A Prayer To The Gods of Getting Going reads like a travelogue of American highways, blending spacious folk, rock, and country into a 35-minute road-worn reflection. Weezer return with their seventh self-titled record, the Gold Album, a 10-song collection of polished alt-rock hooks and classic Cuomo melodicism. Rounding things out is Wild Pink with Still Coming Down, the Brooklyn indie-rock trio’s new album, balancing atmospheric guitars, emotional vulnerability, and expansive, quietly powerful songwriting.

Tap your favourite music app, put those headphones on, and listen to some new music you hopefully discover for the first time. See below for this week's recommendations.

HEY, NOTHING
HOUND

Label: Music Soup/Interscope Records

DENZEL CURREY & KENNETH BLUME
ii

Label: Loma Vista Recordings

WESTSIDE COWBOY
It Goes On

Label: Island Records

SQUIRREL FLOWER
Say A Prayer To The Gods of Getting Going

Label: Polyvinyl Record Co.

WEEZER
Weezer (Gold Album)

Label: Warner Records

WILD PINK
Still Coming Down

Label: Fire Talk