Courtesy of the artistMusicNew Music FridayNew Music Friday: 7 albums to stream this weekboygenius celebrate the joys of friendship on their intimate debut, Altin Gün share a psychedelic new release, and Tzusing unveils his sophomore albumShareLink copied ✔️March 31, 2023MusicNew Music FridayTextGünseli Yalcinkaya Earlier this week, boygenius – the women-led supergroup composed of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus – premiered The Film, a Kristen Stewart-directed short featuring three individual music videos from the band’s highly-anticipated full-length album, The Record, and their first release since their 2018 EP. For those who’ve been keeping up with boygenius’ queer antics for a while now, Stewart’s honourary addition to the family won’t come as a surprise: the band is built around female friendship, with Pulitzer-nominated novelist Elif Batuman writing the introductory essay to the album, while Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams cameoed the trio’s Rolling Stone cover shoot. Suitably, boygenius also loves to poke fun at male hero worship: their band name is a wink-eyed reference to how male artists are often propelled into god territory, over-inflated and sold to the public as visionaries (the artwork for their self-titled EP took a similarly playful approach, imitating Crosby, Stills, & Nash’s debut). The inverse is touched on their track “Strong Enough”, where they described female musicians as “always an angel, never a god”, while on track “Leonard Cohen”, the songwriter is savagely dismissed as “an old man having an existential crisis in a Buddhist monastery writing horny poetry”. But most importantly, the beauty of boygenius is the bond between its members, all of whom identify as queer, and whose music – the sort that’s historically been made by misogynistic bros – explores the nuances of female friendship in all its emotional intensity. This connection is crystalised in one of the album’s closing tracks “We’re in Love”, as Dacus croons: “We stripped down to our skin/ Cold and porcelain/ Like bathers in a painting.” Already accomplished individual performers in their own rights, it’s the strong bond between all three members that makes listening to boygenius such an intimate and joyful experience. Elsewhere, Turkish psych-rock outfit Altin Gün share a new release, Tyler, the Creator drops an expanded edition of Call Me If You Get Lost, and Tzusing unveils his sophomore album. ALTIN GÜN, ASK BOYGENIUS, THE RECORD CHLOË, IN PIECES TOM RASMUSSEN, BODY BUILDING TYLER, THE CREATOR, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST TZUSING, 绿帽 GREEN HAT OBEKA, MOVE LIKE SO REMIXES Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREAn interview with IC3PEAK, the band Putin couldn’t silenceFrost Children answer the dA-Zed quizThe 5 best features from PinkPantheress’ new remix albumMoses Ideka is making pagan synth-folk from the heart of south LondonBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?IB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl