5 albums you need to hear this week
With music from The Cure, Tyler the Creator, mxmtoon, Trust Fund and Thus Love
In the age of streaming, it’s never been easier to listen to new music — but with over 60,000 new songs added to Spotify every day, it’s also never been harder to know what to put on. Every week, the team at Rolling Stone UK will run down some of the best new releases that have been added to streaming services.
This week, we’ve highlighted records by The Cure, Tyler the Creator, mxmtoon, Trust Fund and Thus Love.
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Songs of a Lost World, The Cure’s first new album in 16 years, has been teased on and off for the last decade. In that decade and a half, Robert Smith and co. have remained a stunning and vital live act, and the eight-track album that we now hear shows that they’re far from kicking up their feet on record either. Anchored by opening track and first single ‘Alone’, Songs of a Lost World is a record full of deliciously dark songs that only The Cure can produce.
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Tyler, the Creator– Chromakopia
Chromakopia, Tyler, the Creator’s seventh solo album, arrives just a few months after the rapper told fans that he would release no new music in 2024. This red herring comes in the form of a record that sees Tyler looking firmly inwards, navigating personal crises, the pressures of fame and battles of the mind. It’s transmitted through songs that are as sonically adventurous as anything he’s released, from the psychedelic lead single ‘Noid’ to the erratic, Daniel Caesar-featuring opener ‘St. Chroma’, which goes from choral beauty to a blast of dirty synths and bass and back again.
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mxmtoon – Liminal Space
“In the turmoil of the last two years since my second record, I’ve felt suspended in a transitory landscape that often at times felt endless,” mxmtoon said of the backdrop to new album liminal space. She then wrote this set of 12 songs while “suspended in the unknown”. Answers are rare on this collection of lo-fi gems, but the gentle exploration of unchartered territories is something the songwriter thrives on.
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Trust Fund– Has It Been a While?
After retiring the Trust Fund moniker for half a decade, Ellis Jones is back in his stride, and new album Has It Been a While? follows a compilation of songs from 2022-23 titled it is what it is. The new record is Jones at his finest, stripping back the crunch of his earlier albums to show the stark acoustic beauty at the core of his special, simple songs.
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Thus Love – All Pleasure
On the back of their first album Memorial, Thus Love garnered admiration from famous faces including Suede’s Brett Anderson and Mat Osman. On this second album, you can expect that selection of burgeoning admirers to grow even further. While that first album focused on introspective post-punk, this second album allows them to expand and deliver something that is altogether bigger in sound and scope. There’s the uniting grunge of ‘Birthday Song’, the fizzing energy of ‘Get Stable’ and, on the title track, one of their most affecting songs yet. It’s a huge step up from the group on a record that effortlessly broadens the horizons of their world.
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