New music from Erykah Badu, Mike D, Shudder To Think, Baths, and more!

Some days you wake up to news that a bunch of your favorite artists have released new music. I often share these types of releases on social media, but there were so many great ones today that I decided to recap some of my favorites here, along with music embeds when possible. Let’s go! Baths- 3 Negative Pop(?) Songs A short new EP by Baths, following up last year’s Guts, 3NP? is a return to the much more solo-electronic sound of his earlier albums. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist: “ Before the World Blows” I’m a huge Alchemist fan, so I was excited to see his new collab with Erykah Badu, the queen of neo-soul. I’ll be honest, though, they announced this album with some horrible looking generative AI artwork… And again when Alchemist doubled down with his dumbass “you hate AI yet use a cell phone“-esque replies, I pretty much wrote the whole collaboration off for a while. I’m trying my best to give it a chance, but re-reading all that shit made me lose excitement again for this LP. If…