With six months behind us and the warmest days still ahead, we’re feeling festive.
Below, 10 releases to explore or revisit and savor as you settle into summer.
(Also, be sure to check out EW’sbest TV shows of 2023 so faras we charge intoEmmysseason.)
Amaarae, ‘Fountain Baby’.Interscope
She battles sexism while yearning for ancestral guidance.
Also well intact: the band’s trademark humor.
That question looms large on Trevor Powers' fourth album as Youth Lagoon.
Boygenius, ‘The Record’.Interscope
His sleight of hand is his ability to cloak even his bleakest moments in uplift or a hook.
Lana Del Rey, ‘Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’.Universal Music
Everything but the Girl, ‘Fuse’.Verve
Foo Fighters, ‘But Here We Are’.Roswell
Janelle Monáe, ‘The Age of Pleasure’.Atlantic
Kali Uchis, ‘Red Moon in Venus’.Geffen
Jessie Ware, ‘That! Feels Good!'.Interscope
Yo La Tengo, ‘This Stupid World’.Matador
Youth Lagoon, ‘Heaven Is a Junkyard’.Fat Possum
