10 new albums worth your time: Iceage, Kurt Vile, Boards of Canada, and more

A useful pile of new music

Pitchfork has flagged ten new albums worth streaming right now, covering a wide stretch of sounds and scenes. The roundup includes Iceage, Kurt Vile, Boards of Canada, Paul McCartney, and Feeble Little Horse, among others. If the week felt thin on listening options, this list covers a fair amount of ground.

What is on the list

According to Pitchfork, the ten albums span genres and generations. McCartney and Boards of Canada alone represent something like five decades of recorded music between them. Feeble Little Horse, on the opposite end of the profile spectrum, rounds out a list that mixes established names with smaller ones.

These kinds of roundups tend to be more useful than individual hype cycles. The format forces a degree of editorial restraint: ten slots, no room for padding. Whether every pick holds up over repeated listens is a separate question, but as a starting point for the week it is a reasonable one.

How to approach it

The safest move is to start with the artist you already know, then let the list pull you toward whoever sits next to them. Boards of Canada and Iceage share almost nothing sonically, which is either the appeal or the problem depending on your afternoon.