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’s batch includes new albums from Aldous Harding, Broken Social Scene, Loraine James, and Olof Dreijer.

Aldous Harding: Train on the Island

When you let feeling guide you first, you access a point of view that’s unburdened by doubt, logic, and planning. That Aldous Harding makes this impulse look easy without sacrificing any of the cleverness or creativity that makes her music so immediate is striking. Train on the Island, her fifth album and follow-up to 2022’s Warm Chris, finds her at the top of her game, spinning instinct-driven singles like “Coats” and “Venus in the Zinnia” into harmonious, gut-driven, billowing passages of indie folk.

Broken Social Scene: Remember the Humans

Remember the Humans opens the way every Broken Social Scene album does: a quiet flutter of instruments that swirl together like a dream, before gently segueing into the bold yet tender indie rock they’re known for. The band’s first new LP in nine years uses that opening number, “Not Around Anymore,” to cushion their comeback, reminding listeners that as much as the Canadian supergroup thrives on grand statements about the enduring power of love and togetherness, they also enjoy laying it down easy for the sake of a good stretch.

Namasenda: Limbo

Namasenda’s name has long belonged next to the great Swedes of pop music. Her new album, Limbo, sticks with the sound she helped innovate but doesn’t avoid the way hyperpop has warped, changed, and shifted over the years. Soaring through hardstyle, trance, and pure pop, she finds new opportunities for momentum in a sonic space that often feels stalled.

Loraine James: Detached From the Rest of You

Loraine James has been a dance producer, a post-R&B purveyor, and even an ambient artist over the course of her career. Now, it’s time for her “IDM pop star” album. Her new record, Detached From the Rest of You, is her first under her government name since 2023’s Gentle Confrontation, and places her voice at the top of the mix, featuring collaborations with Alan Sparhawk, Anysia Kim, Tirzah, and Miho Hatori.

Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom

The Knife’s Olof Dreijer describes his debut solo album Loud Bloom as his way to “just have fun with my own music again.” Dreijer knows how to weave elements from techno, house, baile funk, electro, and synth pop to land on one result: euphoric stompers. All of these songs drip with daytime outdoor party energy.