8 new albums to listen to now: Mac Miller, the Weather Station and more

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be difficult to decide what to listen to first. Each week, Pitchfork provides a roundup of important new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new projects from the late Mac Miller, Weather Station, Ela Minus, Blue Lake, Yola, Benjamin Lackner, Jasmine.4.T and Kele. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to receive our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All publications featured here are independently selected by our editors. However, if you purchase something through our affiliate links, Pitchfork will earn an affiliate commission.)

Mac Miller: Balloonism (Warner)

To Mac Miller fans, Balloonism is a posthumous holy grail album – a comprehensive LP recorded and assembled in 2014 around the release of facesunder Miller’s own direction. The long-awaited project, according to a statement from his family, “was of great importance to Malcolm,” who even went so far as to commission artwork beforehand and develop the publication plan faces follow up GO:OD AM had priority. An animated short film accompanies the release.

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The weather station: humanity (Fat Possum)