New Music Friday: 6 albums to hear this week

On their seventh album, Gorillaz’s Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez sees the virtual band continue to tread new ground with a genre-hopping, guest-heavy romp that bounces between glitzy piano ballads, punk ragers, and post-rave ambience. Featuring appearances by Kano, Octavian, slowthai, St Vincent, and JPEGMAFIA, among others, Song Machine’s eclectic artistry and fizzling energy makes it a highly bingeable listen.

Elsewhere this week, Actress delivers an introspective eighth album that traverses themes of love, death, and technology, Junglepussy’s latest offering buzzes with wild abandon, and a Patrick Cowley reissue sends us straight into the weekend.