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Staff Picks: Best Songs of the Week August 3rd – August 9th 2024

Staff Picks: Best Songs of the Week August 3rd – August 9th 2024

Our Songs of the Week column seems at nice new tunes from the final seven days and analyzes notable releases. Discover our new favorites and extra on our Spotify Prime Songs playlist, and for different nice songs from rising artists, try our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Oso Oso, LA LOM, Machine Lady, and extra come by means of with killer tunes.


Workers Picks: Greatest Songs of the Week August third – August ninth

Cliffdiver — “lord have mercer”

On “lord have mercer,” Cliffdiver concurrently faucet into their interior Paramore, their interior disco lover, and their interior revenge fantasist to ship a danceable banger that calls out abusers and manipulators. Full with teased high-hats, a syncopated guitar line, and deliciously cutthroat lyrics (“So are you able to inform me now how massive a boy are ya?/ Now that I’m calling you out, ate up together with your paranoia/ I hope it destroys ya… ‘lil bitch”), “lord have mercer” is a cathartic anthem that reclaims energy from those that deeply don’t deserve it. — Jonah Krueger

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LA LOM – “’72 Monte Carlo”

Instrumental group LA LOM’s glorious new album, The Los Angeles League of Musicians, actually couldn’t have arrived at a greater time. We’re stepping into the canine days of summer season right here, of us; it’s getting laborious to romanticize the warmth. However the effortlessly tropical vitality of this LA LOM album, arguably epitomized by “’72 Monte Carlo,” has the magical, transportive skill to make the oppressive humidity and infinite appear enjoyable and thrilling. Take a look at their stay efficiency of the minimize right here, then toss the total album on a loop. It’s a stellar pay attention from prime to backside. — Mary Siroky

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Lunar Trip — “Tom”

There’s an endearing, if humorous, sort of vulnerability to this monitor from Atlanta-based indie rockers Lunar Trip. Forward of the arrival of their sophomore album subsequent month, the band has unveiled “Tom,” which leapt from a foolish level of inspiration (the villainous Tom Sandoval of Vanderpump Guidelines fame) to a equally unserious premise (completely doomed crushes). However whether or not you’re acquainted with this backstory or not, the colourful refrain and tight manufacturing permits “Tom” to face by itself, no matter a stage of familiarity the listener may need with the band. — M. Siroky

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