11 Albums Out This Week You Should Listen to Now

On his first solo album in four years, Bill Callahan tapped the touring musicians behind his 2022 album YTI⅃AƎЯ—guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White—to improvise in the studio. The resulting 12 songs on My Days of 58 are roving journeys, from the driving kosmische folk of “The Man I’m Supposed to Be” to the wayfaring curiosity of “Lonely City.” You can hear Callahan prepared the songs in separate, one-on-one sessions with each musician—part draft, part spontaneity. As Callahan puts it, “a lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes—making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”

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Gorillaz: The Mountain [Kong]

Gorillaz conduct a musical séance on The Mountain, inviting a typically madcap array of guests—Sparks, Black Thought, Bizarrap, Idles, Yasiin Bey—to join them in invoking the spirits of Gorillaz collaborators past. Those include Dennis Hopper, D12’s Proof, Tony Allen, Bobby Womack, and the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, all revived, via unreleased session recordings, in Damon Albarn’s bombastic fusion of psych-pop and electrofunk. He also enlisted assorted Indian musicians and vocalists, including Anoushka Shankar and Asha Bhosle, to riff on the album’s themes of life cycles and reincarnation.

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Gena (Liv.e & Karriem Riggins): The Pleasure is Yours [Lex]