{"id":645020,"date":"2026-05-15T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:35:09","slug":"15-new-albums-you-should-listen-to-now-kevin-morby-drake-smerz-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/645020\/","title":{"rendered":"15 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Kevin Morby, Drake, Smerz, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 drops available on streaming services. This week\u2019s batch includes new albums from Kevin Morby, Drake, Smerz, and Jeff Parker. Subscribe to Pitchfork\u2019s New Music Friday newsletter<\/a> 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.)<\/p>\n

Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open [Dead Oceans]\"Kevin<\/p>\n

Little Wide Open<\/a>, Kevin Morby\u2019s eighth solo LP, looks back on his time on the road as an adult, swishing between the freedom it offers, the unknowns that always come knocking, and a new factor: looming fatherhood<\/a>, which puts it all in perspective. By his side is the National\u2019s Aaron Dessner handling production, as well as Bon Iver\u2019s Justin Vernon, Lucinda Williams, Muna\u2019s Katie Gavin, and Sylvan Esso\u2019s Amelia Meath.<\/p>\n

Listen on Apple Music<\/a>
Listen on Spotify<\/a>
Listen on Tidal<\/a>
Listen on Amazon Music<\/a>
Listen\/Buy at Bandcamp<\/a>
Buy at Rough Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

Drake: Iceman, Habibti, Maid of Honour [OVO Sound\/Republic]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2209],"class_list":["post-645020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-out-this-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}