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Friday Music Guide: New Music From Charli xcx & Billie Eilish, Jack White, A$AP Rocky and More


This week's new music guide includes Charli xcx and Billie Eilish, Khalid, A$AP Rocky and more.

In the past year alone, Maren Morris announced her decision to leave country music, filed from divorce from singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd and came out as bisexual during Pride month; the highs and lows of her journey are given a five-song snapshot in the form of Intermission, a compelling stopgap on which her fears and flirtations are given a technicolor pop sheen. Puerto Rican hitmaker Justin Quiles wrapped up his visual song trilogy with “Te Perdió” last fall, and has moved on to more quick-hitting jams on Permanente, crafting rumbling hooks and commanding listeners’ attention while rarely allowing his tracks to stretch beyond the two-minute mark. There are moments across Aghori Mhori Mei, The Smashing Pumpkins’ thirteenth studio album, that harken back to their mid-‘90s heyday, and those callbacks are purposeful: Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain have simplified their formula after some grander recent experiments, resulting in some refreshingly straightforward rockers.

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