Pusha T, "What Would Meek Do?" (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam).
Clipse MC Pusha T's just-dropped album Daytona sent ripples of excitement through the usual social-media channels, and what I've heard so far merits the elevated adrenaline levels. The rugged, gritty, and cinematic production from your favorite MAGA-hat-wearing hiphop icon Kanye West presents a copacetic foundation for Pusha to wax clever and gimlet-eyed about his trademark underworld-narcotics scenarios (to paraphrase Public Enemy, "Yeyo, bumrush the snow!"), in addition to bonus lyrical-prowess boasts and disses of rappers who use ghostwriters. I could've picked any of Daytona's seven tracks for this column, but I went with "What Would Meek Do?" mainly to note the use of a sick Yes sample (the warped keyboard part from "Heart of the Sunrise"—quite a non-obvious snippet to loop, so respect is due) and because this cut is as cold as the cell in which Donald Trump Jr. is going to spend the rest of his life.

Brian Eno, "The Ritan Bells" (UMC/Opal). Can the god Brian Eno still bring the ambient goods, post-1980s? Some skeptics on the internet have been yawning loudly in the negative, but based on scattered listens to his new six-CD collection of archival recordings from the '90s, Music for Installations, he is still capable of tapping into that ultimate-serenity well of tones I, for one, have been using for spiritual and physical succor for decades. "The Ritan Bells" is an especially welcome immersion into a chill jacuzzi of metallic resonance, as said bells toll and decay with a chakra-fluffing beatificness. I feel so motherfucking centered right now, people.

Charlotte de Witte, “The Healer” (NovaMute). Charlotte de Witte is a new name to me, but if she's recording for NovaMute (a haven for Plastikman, Speedy J, Cristian Vogel, and other purveyors of life-changing minimal techno), attention must be paid. And "The Healer" proves that this Belgian's a producer worth scoping. The track chugs with a subliminal ominousness and boasts a string sample that's redolent of old Europa tragedy, before it morphs into a stone-cold acid-techno threshing machine. With expert poise, De Witte reveals her mastery of dynamics, moods, and massed vocal layering. If heard on a large system at 4 am, "The Healer" may sound like one of the darkest epiphanies you'll have all year.

Numb.er, “A Memory Stained” (Felte). Helmed by Los Angeles-based photographer and visual artist Jeff Fribourg, Numb.er sound like a smooth blend of '70s (especially 154) and '80s Wire, meaning elegant melodies tinted a deep maroon and pell-mell propulsion topped with vocals that evoke a wry, Colin Newman-esque world-weariness. "A Memory Stained" is an anthem for post-punk lovers who use this emoji ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) on the regular.

Tsembla, "Penumbra" (NNA Tapes). Tsembla (Marja Ahti) has played with Finland's most galaxy-brained psychedelic ensemble, Kemialliset Ystävät, and in her own group, IAX, with Lau Nau's Laura Naukkarinen, so you know she's steeped in the ways of trompe l'oreille. This track from her new album The Hole in the Landscape captures the otherworldliness of KY, but imbues it with an airier, more enchanted aura. This could be folk music for the moons of Jupiter; it makes me feel weightless and disoriented, which in this current climate feels like urgently needed medicine, frankly.

Noteworthy May 25 album releases: Pusha T, Daytona (G.O.O.D. Music); Jenny Hval, The Long Sleep (Sacred Bones); Tsembla, The Hole in the Landscape (NNA Tapes); Jo Passed, Their Prime (Sub Pop); Chvrches, Love Is Dead (Glassnote); Wooden Shjips, V. (Thrill Jockey); Wand, Perfume (Drag City); Dear Nora, Skull Example (Orindal); Tracyanne & Danny, Tracyanne & Danny (Merge); Various Artists, Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights (Numero Group); The Love-Birds, In the Lover's Corner (Trouble in Mind); Jethro Tull, 50 for 50 (Rhino); Halo Maud, Je Suis Une Île (Heavenly); Ari Roar, Calm Down (Bella Union); Chad Valley, Imaginary Music (Cascine).