Our recurring Songs of the Week column highlights the perfect new tracks from the final seven days. Discover our new favorites on our High Songs playlist, and for extra nice songs from rising artists, hearken to our New Sounds playlist. This week, we’ve listening to tunes from Madison Cunningham, Native Solar, The Mood Lure, 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 fulfill and match Flume’s sharp, booming manufacturing. However general, “I Don’t Go Out” manages to really feel completely distinct, the results of a collaborative peak and an important 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 wish to give again, and persevering with to provide 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 an important instance of why the quintet have constructed such a faithful fanbase in SoCal and past over the past 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 come back this 12 months, 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. If you happen to had been alive in 2006, you’ll undoubtedly acknowledge a few of the track’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 excellent that they recruit Rebecca Black, of all individuals, for this banger, contemplating she’s executed her personal rebrand by reappropriating a few of the sounds and types that had been fashionable throughout her first period of viral success. This track is so infectious and delightfully unserious {that a} quick blurb actually can’t do it justice; as a substitute, I entreat you to hearken 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 together with her full-album cowl with Andrew Fowl, Madison Cunningham is again together 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 pay attention is the completely beautiful “My Full Identify.” Placing down her guitar as she sits on the piano, Cunningham presents a stirring new readability on the only. It’s as heat as it’s unhappy, a testomony to the concept it’s higher to have liked and misplaced than to have by no means liked 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 incorporates a collaboration with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, “Wake.” — Ben Kaye
Native Solar — “Adam”
If you happen to’ve bounced across the fashionable New York Metropolis scene to catch acts like Geese, Been Stellar, or Mannequin/Actriz, there’s a good likelihood 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, they usually’re about to deliver their sound to the plenty with their Concrete Language debut. Coming September nineteenth by way of TODO, the file is a love letter to town the band calls dwelling, with new single “Adam” capturing the craziness of an evening in town. Contemplate 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 experience. — B. Kaye
Pool Youngsters — “Tinted Home windows”
At present noticed Pool Youngsters drop their new album, Simpler Stated Than Executed, and the entire thing is certainly price a pay attention. If you happen to’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, beautiful and jagged because the track calls for. Take heed to this observe, after which simply preserve the album working. — B. Kaye
The Mood Lure — “Fortunate Dimes”
The Mood Lure are again with their first slice of recent music in 9 years, and it’s a ripper; these searching for 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 quantity to a 12, evidenced by the brooding roar of guitars within the refrain and the busy breakbeat beneath it. There’s quite a bit on the market as of late beckoning older indie followers to that first massive breakout second (see: the Simply Like Heaven pageant), however The Mood Lure are comfortable to indicate us they’ve received 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 in step with 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 experience or die-ers. — J. Krueger