With a lot good music being launched on a regular basis, it may be laborious to find out what to hearken to first. Each week, Pitchfork affords a run-down of great new releases out there on streaming companies. This week’s batch consists of new albums from Megan Thee Stallion, Mabe Fratti, Omar Apollo, Fortunate Daye, Channel Tres, Soiled Three, Eiko Ishibashi, Lupe Fiasco, Bitter Widows, and the Folks Implosion. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday e-newsletter to get our suggestions in your inbox each week. (All releases featured listed below are independently chosen by our editors. If you purchase one thing by means of our affiliate hyperlinks, nonetheless, Pitchfork earns an affiliate fee.)

Megan Thee Stallion: Megan [Hot Girl Productions]

After introducing Megan with three serpentine singles—“Hiss,” “Boa,” and “Cobra”—Megan Thee Stallion has uncoiled the completed product. For her third album, the Houston rapper invitations friends together with Glorilla and Victoria Monét to fill out a sometimes raucous assortment of brutal bars, infectious hooks, and venomous one-liners.

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Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes [Unheard of Hope]