Our recurring Songs of the Week column highlights one of the best new tracks from the final seven days. Discover our new favorites on our High Songs playlist, and for extra nice songs from rising artists, take heed to our New Sounds playlist. This week, we’ve listening to tunes from Madison Cunningham, Native Solar, The Mood Entice, and others.
googly eyes — “I Don’t Go Out” feat. Tove Lo and Flume
In 2023, Flume and Tove Lo put out an open name to collaborate with some up-and-coming vocalists, and digital pop artist googly eyes answered: Now on Tove Lo’s label Fairly Swede, “I Don’t Go Out” is the primary collaborative observe from the trio. For one, googly eyes has fairly the voice; she glides over the pre-chorus deftly and has greater than sufficient vocal conviction to satisfy and match Flume’s sharp, booming manufacturing. However general, “I Don’t Go Out” manages to really feel totally distinct, the results of a collaborative peak and a terrific preview of their forthcoming EP collectively. — Paolo Ragusa
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hannah bahng — “Orchid / Flame”
“Orchid / Flame,” the most recent from rising alt-pop songwriter hannah bahng, is a two-part train in emotional frustration. Initially written as two separate observe concepts, the string-backed tune finds bahng expressing emotions of, as she places it, “giving and giving greater than what they need to give again, and persevering with to present regardless of the love and care not being reciprocated.” Therefore, the titular flame she will be able to’t assist however be drawn to. — Jonah Krueger
Internal Wave — “Madre”
LA indie rockers Internal Wave are again with a dreamy new minimize, “Madre.” It’s their first launch since signing to Nettwerk, and it’s a terrific instance of why the quintet have constructed such a loyal fanbase in SoCal and past during the last a number of years. With only a tint of psychedelia, heat harmonies, a low-key bounce, and manufacturing that sounds (for lack of a greater phrase) costly, “Madre” is the complete bundle. With extra new music to return this yr, Internal Wave are simply getting began. — P. Ragusa
Joey Valence & Brae — “SEE U DANCE” feat. Rebecca Black
Joey Valence & Brae are begging you to get down and dance on their new album Hyperyouth, and “See You Dance” is as convincing as ever. In the event you had been alive in 2006, you’ll undoubtedly acknowledge a few of the tune’s nostalgic hallmarks: chunky drums a la Pharrell, synth stabs that really feel lifted from “Promiscuous,” and a life-of-the-party ethos that beckons you again to the ground. It’s good that they recruit Rebecca Black, of all individuals, for this banger, contemplating she’s finished her personal rebrand by reappropriating a few of the sounds and types that had been widespread throughout her first period of viral success. This tune is so infectious and delightfully unserious {that a} quick blurb actually can’t do it justice; as an alternative, I entreat you to take heed to the primary verse the place Joey Valence asks, “Who’s over there with a BIG OL’ BUTT,” and check out to not bowl over with laughter. — P. Ragusa
Madison Cunningham — “My Full Identify”
Having predicted the reissue of Buckingham Nicks along with her full-album cowl with Andrew Hen, Madison Cunningham is again along with her newest solo album. Entitled Ace, the singer-songwriter’s third full-length will arrive October tenth by way of Verve Forecast, and our first hear is the completely pretty “My Full Identify.” Placing down her guitar as she sits on the piano, Cunningham presents a stirring new readability on the one. It’s as heat as it’s unhappy, a testomony to the concept that it’s higher to have beloved and misplaced than to have by no means beloved in any respect — or, as she sings it within the lyrics themselves, “Love’s a form of sorrow price saving.” As if this delicate flip weren’t sufficient to have us anticipating the complete LP, Ace additionally includes a collaboration with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, “Wake.” — Ben Kaye
Native Solar — “Adam”
In the event you’ve bounced across the fashionable New York Metropolis scene to catch acts like Geese, Been Stellar, or Mannequin/Actriz, there’s a good probability you’ve caught a Native Solar set. The band’s pressing and joyfully messy garage-psych (suppose Parquet Courts by way of The Velvet Underground, with a cease off at White Fence) has been an NYC staple lately, and so they’re about to convey their sound to the plenty with their Concrete Language debut. Coming September nineteenth by way of TODO, the file is a love letter to the town the band calls dwelling, with new single “Adam” capturing the craziness of an evening in town. Think about it an ode to transferring quick in a quick paced world, a spot the place screaming “I don’t know!” isn’t a declaration of uncertainty, however a pledge to carry on tight on the wild journey. — B. Kaye
Pool Children — “Tinted Home windows”
At the moment noticed Pool Children drop their new album, Simpler Stated Than Finished, and the entire thing is certainly price a hear. In the event you’re not acquainted with the Tallahassee group’s hook craft, although, observe No. 2 ought to pull your proper in. “Tinted Home windows” is a lament on life on the street, with the band entangling mathy guitar knots round offbeat drums with the technical chaos that makes their model of rock such an impossibly interesting problem. Singer Christine Goodwyne’s voice is directly stunning and pained, attractive and jagged because the tune calls for. Take heed to this observe, after which simply hold the album operating. — B. Kaye
The Mood Entice — “Fortunate Dimes”
The Mood Entice are again with their first slice of recent music in 9 years, and it’s a ripper; these in search of the serenading tenor of “Candy Disposition” should look elsewhere, as a result of “Fortunate Dimes” feels rather more akin to, say, Kasabian than their early 2010s indie contemporaries. It’s a deal with to listen to a band return and appear completely unafraid of punching the amount to a 12, evidenced by the brooding roar of guitars within the refrain and the busy breakbeat beneath it. There’s lots on the market lately beckoning older indie followers to that first large breakout second (see: the Simply Like Heaven competition), however The Mood Entice are completely happy to point out us they’ve obtained much more left within the tank. — P. Ragusa
Villagerrr — “Experience or Die” feat. Lydia
Columbus, Ohio, indie rockers Villagerrr are again with fairly a bit of stories: They’ve signed to Winspear (additionally dwelling to our most up-to-date CoSign Teethe), introduced a deluxe model of their 2024 LP Tear Your Coronary heart Out, and dropped the tasty new tune “Experience or Die,” which options visitor vocals from feeble little horse’s Lydia. The minimize falls proper according to the easy-on-the-ears, intensely melodic, slowcore-tinged vibes of the act’s latest efforts, and arrives full with pedal metal and an emotional, fuzzy guitar solo or two. What nice information for Villagerrr journey or die-ers. — J. Krueger
