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The MotionXI Guide to New Albums, Fall 2018: Thom Yorke, Lil Wayne, Childish Gambino, Cat Power, More

From BROCKHAMPTON and Childish Gambino to Aphex Twin and Empress Of, here’s a big list of records to look forward to in the coming months Welcome back to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to new music. Four times a year, we round up a list of albums, singles, EPs, reissues, and more arriving in the coming months. This installment covers fall 2018, starting with Friday, September 7. (Please note that release dates may change.) To start things off, we’ve highlighted a few particularly notable releases, including albums and EPs by Thom Yorke, Aphex Twin, Cat Power, Spiritualized, Low, Mount Eerie, boygenius, Prince, BROCKHAMPTON, Octavian, Noname, and others. Joey Purp: QUARTERTHING (September 7, self-released) Chicago rapper Joey Purp is following his self-released 2016 mixtape iiiDrops with a new project called QUARTERTHING. Executive produced by Nate Fox, Nico Segal and Peter Cottontale, the project includes contributions from GZA, RZA, Ravyn Lenae, and Knox Fortune, among others. Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt (September 7, Fat Possum/Bella Union) Six years after the release of Sweet Heart Sweet Light, Jason Pierce is back with a new Spiritualized album. “I’m a lot older now and in a weird way I think it’s my last record,” he said in autumn 2016. He added in a recent press release, “It was such hard work. I found myself going crazy for so long.” Read Pitchfork’s review of And Nothing Hurt’s “I’m Your Man” and “A Perfect Miracle.” Octavian: SPACEMAN (September 10, Black Butter) Octavian’s SPACEMAN mixtape is the London rapper’s first new project since 2017’s Essie World. The 14-track tape does not include his 2018 singles (“100 Degrees,” “Hands,” “Little,” and “Move Me”) or his breakout track “Party Here.” The mixtape cover was created by Armin Druzanovic, Michael Phan, and Virgil Abloh. Read Pitchfork’s track review of SPACEMAN’s “Revenge,” as well as the Rising profile “Octavian Is Shaping the Sound of Rap in 2018—Just Ask Drake.” Aphex Twin: Collapse EP (September 14, Warp) When the Aphex Twin logo appeared in cities across the world earlier this year—on buildings in New York City and underground stations in London—Richard D. James’ return appeared imminent. Soon after, he made it official, announcing the Collapse EP and dropping the song “T69 Collapse.” Collapse follows 2016’s CheetahEP. Low: Double Negative (September 14, Sub Pop) Low decamped to Justin Vernon’s April Base studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to record their latest album, Double Negative. The follow-up to 2015’s Ones and Sixes was produced by B.J. Burton. Check out Pitchfork’s review of “Disarray” (named Best New Track). Christine and the Queens: Chris (September 21, Because) Chris is the second record from Héloïse Letissier, better known as Christine and the Queens. “ gets to be a bit more exhilarating, because I get to say, okay, I’ve been introduced now,” Letissier said in a statement. “I get to be more confident, and it matches what happened in my life as a woman.” Read the track review of “Doesn’t Matter.” Mount Eerie: (after) (September 21, P.W. Elverum & Sun) Recorded at a church in the Netherlands in November 2017, Phil Elverum’s latest release as Mount Eerie is a live album featuring songs from last year’s A Crow Looked at Me and this year’s Now Only. “Does it bring anything new to the songs to hear them in this way? My hope is: yes,” he wrote in a statement. “This is a recording of these ultra-intimate songs living in the real world among people, and of peoples’ wide eyed accepting silence, and clapping.” Read Pitchfork’s profile “Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy,” as well as “Love Is Real: On Phil Elverum Marrying Michelle Williams” on the Pitch. Prince: Piano & A Microphone: 1983 (September 21, Warner Bros.) Piano & A Microphone: 1983 is an unearthed collection from Prince’s vaults recorded during a rehearsal at his home studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The nine-song LP includes solo piano renditions of “Purple Rain,” Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You,” and “Mary Don’t You Weep.” The latter recording featured prominentlyin Spike Lee’s latest film, BlacKkKlansman. Spike Lee also directed an extended trailer for the film soundtracked by the song. Read “The Pro-Black Bond Between Spike Lee and Prince” on the Pitch. Kode9 / Burial: FABRICLIVE 100 (September 28, Fabric) Burial and Kode9 have come together for the final installment of London nightclub Fabric’s mix series. FABRICLIVE 100 is 74-minutes long. The mix’s announcement also arrived with a rare Burial selfie. Tim Hecker: Konoyo (September 28, Kranky) Konoyo is experimental composer Tim Hecker’s first record since 2016’s Love Streams. He recorded the LP during several trips to Japan where he worked with members of the gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Check out Pitchfork’s review of Konoyo’s opener “This Life.” BROCKHAMPTON: Iridescence (September, Question Everything/RCA) It’s been a real journey toward BROCKHAMPTON’s fourth studio album, now titled Iridescence. Their follow-up to the 2017SATURATION trilogy was initially teased as a project called PUPPY before allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct against former member Ameer Vann surfaced earlier this year. BROCKHAMPTON kicked Vann out of the group in May, and then appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to perform a new song (“Tonya”) and reveal the working album title the best years of our lives. They subsequently released “1999 WILDFIRE,” “1998 TRUMAN,” and “1997 DIANA.” In August, they revealed the new album title Iridescence. Noname: Room 25 (September, self-released) Chicago rapper and singer Noname is gearing up to release the follow-up to her 2016 debut Telefone. She has said that the 11-track Room 25 will feature “the homies.” Cat Power: Wanderer (October 5, Domino) Wanderer is Chan Marshall’s first Cat Power album since 2012’s Sun. In a statement, Marshall said the album was inspired by “the course life has taken in this journey—going from town to town, with guitar, telling tale; with reverence to the people who did this generations before .” Lana Del Rey guests on the track “Woman.” Phosphorescent: C’est La Vie (October 5, Dead Oceans) Matthew Houck’s first Phosphorescent album in five years is the self-produced C’est La Vie. The follow-up to 2013’s Muchacho is led by the single “New Birth in New England.” Regarding the album title, Houck told Pitchfork, “It’s life. It’s weird. It’s so grand and huge, it can reduce you into an idiot. What else can you say?” Read the full interview, “Phosphorescent on Parenthood and His First Album in Five Years, C’est La Vie,” on the Pitch. Empress Of: Us (October 19, Terrible) Us is the second album from Lorely Rodriguez aka Empress Of. “It’s been a long two and a half years making this project,” she said of the Me follow-up. Read Pitchfork’s review of the single “When I’m With Him,” named Best New Track. Neneh Cherry: Broken Politics (October 19, Smalltown Supersound/Awal) Broken Politics is Neneh Cherry’s fifth solo album. The LP, produced entirely by Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) was recorded in Woodstock, New York with Hebden, Cherry, and her songwriting partner Cameron McVey. “Maybe politics starts in your bedroom, or your house—a form of activism, and a responsibility,” Cherry said in a statement. “The album is about all of those things: feeling broken, disappointed, and sad, but having perseverance. It’s a fight against the extinction of free thought and spirit.” Thom Yorke: Suspiria OST (October 26, XL) Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name, is behind the new reboot of the horror classic Suspiria. Thom Yorke, the frontman of Radiohead and periodic solo artist, has provided that film’s score. The 25-song soundtrack features “Suspirium,” which is as a full-on song with vocals (as opposed to instrumentals like the music of the film’s trailer and clips). Prior to announcing the soundtrack, Yorke discussed how Vangelis’ Blade Runner score inspired him and likened creating the score to “making spells.” boygenius: boygenius EP (November 9, Matador) Boygenius is the supergroup comprised of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. Their first release is a six-song, self-titled EP. In November, Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus will embark on a North American tour together, with each artist performing a solo set. Check out Pitchfork’s Best New Track review of “Me & My Dog.” The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (TBA, Dirty Hit/Interscope) The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has said that A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, the Manchester band’s third album, will arrive this fall. So far, they have shared the singles “Give Yourself a Try,” “Love It If We Made It,” and “TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME.” A Brief Inquiry follows 2016’s I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it. Childish Gambino: TBA (TBA, Wolf+Rothstein/RCA) In spring 2017, Donald Glover announced that he would be releasing one final album under the Childish Gambino moniker. “I think endings are good because they force things to get better,” he later said in an interview. So far this year, Glover has released three new songs: “This Is America,” “Feels Like Summer,” and “Summertime Magic,” which is the first official single from his next record—the follow-up to 2016’s Grammy-nominated “Awaken, My Love!” He recently fanned the flames of new music rumblings by sending fans two unfinished tracks (“Algorhythm” and “All Night”) ahead of his North American tour. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter V (TBA, Universal) After settling two longstanding lawsuits against Birdman and Cash Money in June, Lil Wayne has teased the possibility of finally releasing his long-delayed album, Tha Carter V. It’s allegedly Wayne’s final installment in the Carter series, following 2011’s Tha Carter IV. Read “Lil Wayne’s Long Road to Tha Carter V” on the Pitch. SOB x RBE: GANGIN II (TBA, SOB X RBE/Empire) SOB X RBE—the Bay Area rap quartet of Yhung T.O., Slimmy B, Lul G, and DaBoii—released their album Gangin this past February. They recently revealed that its sequel, GANGIN II, is “coming soon.” Check out the track review for their single “Vibes.” September 09-07 ADULT.: THIS BEHAVIOR  Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal—The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings  Amnesia Scanner: Another Life  Ava Luna: Moon 2  The Blaze: DANCEHALL  Bob Seger & The Last Heard: Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967  Chilly Gonzales: Solo Piano III  CLUTCH: Book of Bad Decisions  Eric Bachmann: No Recover  G Perico: GUESS WHAT? EP Ipek Gorgun: Ecce Homo  JEFF the Brotherhood: Magick Songs  Jesse Harris: Aquarelle  Joey Purp: QUARTERTHING  Kilo Kish: MOTHE EP Lenny Kravitz: Raise Vibration  MAGIC!: Expectations  Masego: Lady Lady  Mirah: Understanding  mmph: Serenade EP MNEK: Language  Mothers: Render Another Ugly Method  Oliver Coates: Shelley’s on Zenn-La  The O’My’s: Tomorrow  Paul McCartney: Egypt Station  Paul Simon: In the Blue Light  Seinabo Sey: I’m a Dream  Slowthai: Runt EP Soft Cell: Keychains & Snowstorms: The Soft Cell Story  Spiral Deluxe: Voodoo Magic  Spiritualized: And Nothing Hurt  Steven A. Clark: Where Neon Goes to Die  $uicideboy$: I Want to Die in New Orleans  Swamp Dogg: Love, Loss and Auto-Tune  Teleman: Family of Aliens  Waxahatchee: Great Thunder EP ZHU: Ringos Desert  09-10 Octavian: SPACEMAN  09-14 6LACK: East Atlanta Love Letter  Alejandro Escovedo: The Crossing  Aphex Twin: Collapse EP Asleep at the Wheel: New Routes  The Beta Band: The Three EPs  Black Belt Eagle Scout: Mother of My Children  Blitzen Trapper: Furr: Deluxe Edition  Brandon Coleman: Resistance  Capital Punishment: Roadkill  Carrie Underwood: Cry Pretty  The Chills: Snow Bound  Daniel T.: Heliotrope  David Guetta: 7  Dilly Dally: Heaven  The Dirty Nil: Master Volume  Dizzee Rascal: Don’t Gas Me EP Emma Louise: Lilac Everything  Fred Thomas: Aftering  Future Generations: Landscape  Good Charlotte: Generation Rx  The Goon Sax: We’re Not Talking  Guerilla Toss: Twisted Crystal  Hawkwind: Road to Utopia  Jóhann Jóhannsson: Mandy OST Jungle: For Ever  Knife Knights: 1 Time Mirage  Low: Double Negative  Lyrics Born: Quite a Life  Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1948-2018  Night Shop: In the Break  Orbital: Monsters Exist  Paul Weller: True Meanings  Richard Thompson: 13 Rivers  Sandro Perri: In Another Life  Sarah Davachi: Gave in Rest  Thrice: Palms  Tony Bennett / Diana Krall: Love Is Here to Stay We Were Promised Jetpacks: The More I Sleep the Less I Dream Willie Nelson: My Way  09-19 MHD: 19  09-21 Ash Koosha: Return 0  Beak>: >>>  Brocker Way: Wild Wild Country OST Carl Broemel: Wished Out  Christine and the Queens: Chris  Constant Mongrel: Living in Excellence  Drew McDowall: The Third Helix  The Field: Infinite Moment  Hawkwind: Road to Utopia  Jevon: Judas EP Josh Groban: Bridges  Joyce Manor: Million Dollars to Kill Me  Liars: Titles With the Word Fountain  Lonnie Holley: MITH  Macy Gray: RUBY  Metric: Art of Doubt  Mount Eerie: (after)  Mountain Man: Magic Ship  Mutual Benefit: Thunder Follows the Light  Prince: Piano & A Microphone: 1983  Richard Reed Parry: Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1  Ryan Hemsworth: Elsewhere  Sha La Das: Love in the Wind  Suede: The Blue Hour  SUMAC: Love in Shadow  Supersuckers: Suck It  Villagers: The Art of Pretending to Swim  Voivod: The Wake  09-25 Bikini Kill: The Singles  09-28 Alt-J: REDUXER  Bitchin Bajas: Rebajas  Bliss Signal: Bliss Signal  Cher: Dancing Queen  Cypress Hill: Elephants on Acid  Dillon Francis: Wut Wut  Exploded View: Obey  GØGGS: Pre Strike Sweep  Jay Som / Justus Proffit: Nothing’s Changed  Jlin: Autobiography  Joe Strummer: Joe Strummer 001  John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City  The Joy Formidable: AARTH  Keith Ape: Born Again EP Lala Lala: The Lamb  Logic: YSIV  Loretta Lynn: Wouldn’t It Be Great?  Marissa Nadler: For My Crimes  Marsha Ambrosius: NYLA  Maxwell: Embrya  Mike Simonetti: Solipsism (Collected Works 2006-2013)  Mount Kimbie: DJ-Kicks  Mudhoney: Digital Garbage  Nick Cave & the Bad Seed: Distant Sky – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen EP Nile Rodgers & CHIC: It’s About Time  Peter Bibby: Grand Champion  Pixies: Come on Pilgrim...It’s Surfer Rosa  Rod Stewart: Blood Red Roses  Roosevelt: Young Romance  Sam Phillips: World on Sticks  Soft Cell: The Singles - Keychains & Snowstorms  Stereolab: Aluminum Tunes   Stereolab: Refried Ectoplasm   Stereolab: Switched On  Tim Cohen: The Modern World  Tim Hecker: Konoyo  Tom Petty: An American Treasure  Various Artists: Rick and Morty OST Viagra Boys: Street Worms  October 10-05 Adrianne Lenker: abysskiss  Atmosphere: Mi Vida Local  Behemoth: I Loved You at Your Darkest  Cat Power: Wanderer  Cursive: Vitriola  David Nance Group: Peaced and Slightly Pulverized  Death Valley Girls: Darkness Rains  Echo & the Bunnymen: The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon  Electric Six: Bride of the Devil  Fucked Up: Dose Your Dreams  Ghostface Killah: The Lost Tapes  Haerts: New Compassion  High on Fire: Electric Messiah  Jerusalem in My Heart: Daqa'iq Tudaiq  John Lennon: Imagine—The Ultimate Collection  Kristin Hersh: Possible Dust Clouds  KT Tunstall: WAX  Lindsey Buckingham: Solo Anthology - The Best of Lindsey Buckingham  Madeline Kenney: Perfect Shapes  Marie Davidson: Working Class Woman  Matt Nathanson: Sings His Sad Heart  mewithoutYou:   Molly Burch: First Flower  Mueller_Roedelius: IMAGORI II  Nathan Bowles: Plainly Mistaken  Petite Noir: La Maison Noir / The Black House  Pilar Zeta: Moments of Reality  Phosphorescent: C’est La Vie  Ron Gallo: Stardust Birthday Party  Sam Wilkes: WILKES  Steve Perry: Traces  Swearin’: Fall Into the Sun  Timmy’s Organism: Survival of the Fiendish  Tokyo Police Club: TPC  Various Artists: A Star Is Born OST Windhand: Eternal Return  10-12 Anna St. Louis: If Only There Was a River  Basement: Beside Myself  Calvin Johnson: A Wonderful Beast  Charalambides: Tom and Christina Carter  Colter Wall: Songs of the Plains  Connan Mockasin: Jassbusters  Daniel Brandt: Channels  Dave Davies: Decade  David Bowie: David Bowie Loving the Alien (1983-1988) The Dodos: Certainty Waves  Elvis Costello & The Imposters: Look Now  Eric Clapton: Happy Xmas  The Helio Sequence: Keep Your Eyes Ahead: Deluxe Edition  Jaako Eino Kalevi: Out of Touch  Jerry Paper: Like a Baby  John Grant: Love Is Magic  Kim Kashkashian: J.S. Bach Six Suites for Viola Solo BWV 1007-1012  Laraaji / Arji OceAnanda / Dallas Acid: Arrive Without Leaving Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster…  Los Campesinos!: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed  Matthew Dear: Bunny  Primal Scream: Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Sessions  Sick Thoughts: Sick Thoughts  The Skiffle Players: Skiff  Tom Morello: The Altas Underground  The Watson Twins: DUO  William Basinski / Lawrence English: Selva Oscura  Young Jesus: The Whole Thing Is Just There  Yowler: Black Dog in My Path  10-19 CAVE: Allways  Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning  The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? Disturbed: Evolution  Dua Lipa: Dua Lipa – Complete Edition  Empress Of: Us  Farao: Pure-O  Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (60th Anniversary Edition)  Geotic: Traversa  Jimmy Urine: EURINGER  John Carpenter: Halloween OST Minus the Bear: Fair Enough EP MØ: Forever Neverland  Neneh Cherry: Broken Politics  Papercuts: Parallel Universe Blues  Peter Bjorn and John: Darker Days  R.E.M.: R.E.M. at the BBC  Richard Ashcroft: Natural Rebel  Various Artists: Bohemian Rhapsody OST Will Oldham: Songs of Love and Horror  Yoko Ono: Warzone  10-26 Antarctigo Vespucci: Love in the Time of E-Mail  Apollo Brown / Joell Ortiz: Mona Lisa  Blondie: Heart of Glass EP Boy George & Culture Club: Life  Carbonas: Your Moral Superiors: Singles and Rarities  Daughters: You Won’t Get What You Want  Dean Wareham / Cheval Sombre: Dean Wareham Vs. Cheval Sombre  Julia Holter: Aviary  The Kinks: The Kings Are the Village Green Preservation Society Saves the Day: 9  Shad: A Short Story About a War  SRSQ: Unreality  This Mortal Coil: Blood  This Mortal Coil: Filigree & Shadow  This Mortal Coil: It’ll End in Tears  Thom Yorke: Suspiria OST Ty Segall: Fudge Sandwich  November 11-01 Sun Kil Moon: This Is My Dinner  11-02 Bill Ryder-Jones: Yawn  Charles Mingus: Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Seldon  David Allred: The Transition  Dead Can Dance: Dionysus ] Gabby’s World: Beast on Beast  Kelly Moran: Ultraviolet  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: 12 Bar Bruise  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Eyes Like the Sky King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Float Along—Fill Your Lungs  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Oddments  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Willoughby’s Beach EP Metallica: …And Justice for All  The Prodigy: No Tourists  Tenacious D: Post-Apocalypto  11-09 BEAST: Ens  boygenius: boygenius EP Charles Bradley: Black Velvet  J Mascis: Elastic Days  Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra: The Capitol Studios Sessions  Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers: Bought to Rot Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore: Ghost Forests  Maisha: There Is a Place  Muse: Simulation Theory  11-13 Method Man: The Meth Lab II: The Lithium’  11-16 Joseph Shabason: Anne  11-23 Laibach: The Sound of Music  January 01-18 Lost Under Heaven: Love Hates What You Become  The Twilight Sad: IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME March 03-01 Mark Kozelek / Donny McCaslin / Jim White: Mark Kozelek With Donny McCaslin and Jim White  TBA The 1975: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships  2 Chainz: Rap or Go to the League  BROCKHAMPTON: Iridescence  Childish Gambino: TBA Chromatics: Dear Tommy  DJ Khaled: Father of Asahd  EARTHGANG: Mirrorland  Everything Is Recorded: 8AM EP Georgia Anne Muldrow: TBA Jeremih / Ty Dolla Sign: MihTy  Kamaiyah: Don’t Ever Get It Twisted  Kamaiyah: Woke  Kodie Shane: TBA Lil Pump: Harverd Dropout  Noname: Room 25  Quavo: Quavo Huncho  Sheck Wes: MUDBOY  SOB X RBE: GANGIN II  Swizz Beatz: Poison  Read the full article