12 Songs You Ought to Take heed to Now

The employees of Pitchfork listens to lots of new music. Numerous it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors undergo an imposing variety of new releases, giving suggestions to one another and discovering new favorites alongside the way in which. Every Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are enjoying obsessively and highlighting a number of the Pitchfork employees’s favourite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its solely tenet is that these are the songs you’d gladly ship to a good friend.

This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist options Mitski, Shabaka, and extra. Hear under and comply with our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a fee from purchases made via affiliate hyperlinks on our website.)

Pitchfork Selects: January 20, 2026

Mitski: “The place’s My Telephone?”
Shabaka: “A Future Untold”
Maxo Kream: “Faux Jeezy” [ft. Denzel Curry and JPEGMAFIA]
Al Inexperienced: “To Love Anyone”
Organ Tapes: “Gun to the World”
Makthaverskan: “Louie”
Kim Gordon: “Not Right now”
GENA: “Lead it Up”
Charlotte Day Wilson: “Lean” [ft. Saya Gray]
Courtney Marie Andrews: “Everybody Desires to Really feel Like You Do”
Ralphie Choo: “Rocco”
Robber Robber: “The Sound It Made”