Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.
This week, we’re starting off with a new bonus cut from the deluxe edition of Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure titled ‘Please’, which is as infectiously danceable and euphoric as the best of the main album tracks. Squid delivered another propulsive, fiery single from their upcoming debut called ‘Pamphlets’, while Mannequin Pussy pack the same kind of furious intensity on the much shorter ‘Perfect’. Hey, Ily, a Billings, Montana band drawing influences from “Nintendocore, Emo, Powerpop, Shoegaze”, shared their second EP, Internet Breath, and ‘Don’t Talk About It (Your Weird Complex)’ is a catchy highlight showcasing their unique blend of power pop and screamo. duendita has an entrancing, percussive new track out called ‘bio’; Faye Webster announced her next album with ‘Cheers’, an anxious, slow-burning track signalling the next step in the Atlanta songwriter’s artistic evolution; and finally, Half Waif shared the fourth single from the forthcoming LP Mythopoetics, the evocative and hypnotic ‘Swimmer’.
Best New Songs: May 3, 2021
Mannequin Pussy, ‘Perfect’
Squid, ‘Pamphlets’
Song of the Week: Jessie Ware, ‘Please’
duendita, ‘bio’
Hey, Ily, ‘Don’t Talk About It (Your Weird Complex)’
Half Waif, ‘Swimmer’
Faye Webster, ‘Cheers’
