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Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Yves Tumor’s Heaven to a Tortured Mind

New Music Friday: nine albums to stream this week

Including records by Yves Tumor, Empress Of, Thundercat, Yaeji, and more

Listening back to Yves Tumor’s breakthrough album, 2016’s Serpent Music, it’s hard to believe that four years later they’d be releasing Heaven to a Tortured MindSerpent Music was full of harsh noise and drones, counterbalanced by lush and spiritual beat loops, and while these sounds are definitely in the DNA of Heaven to a Tortured Mind, on this album they reconstruct them into mutant rock music. But while Yves Tumor the rock star is maybe unexpected, it’s a confident and assured transformation that’s resulted in one of the best collections of songs this year.

Elsewhere this week, Yaeji drops her debut mixtape, What We Drew; Empress Of is back with the self-referential I’m Your Empress Of; and Headie One teams up with Fred Again for the GANG mixtape, with help from Jamie xx, Sampha, FKA twigs, and more. Take a listen below.

EMPRESS OF, I’M YOUR EMPRESS OF

EVERYTHING IS RECORDED, FRIDAY FOREVER

HEADIE ONE X FRED AGAIN, GANG

MINOR SCIENCE, SECOND LANGUAGE

PURITY RING, WOMB

THUNDERCAT, IT IS WHAT IT IS

TOPS, I FEEL ALIVE

YAEJI, WHAT WE DREW

YVES TUMOR, HEAVEN TO A TORTURED MIND