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 best new music segment.
This week’s list includes ‘Jupiter’s Faerie’, the centerpiece of Sturgill Simpson’s debut album as Johnny Blue Skies, a heart-wrenching meditation on grief that sprawls over seven minutes, stretching the mundane into the cosmically intimate; Kelly Lee Owens’ sultry and infectious ‘Love You Got’, which craves pure euphoria and actualizes it; Magdalena Bay’s slinky and confident new song ‘Image’; Christian Lee Hutson’s ‘After Hours’, which introduces the warm, enveloping sound of his upcoming album Paradise Pop. 10; Laura Marling’s ‘Patterns’, a gorgeously tender acoustic ballad that leads her forthcoming album; Silverbacks’ curiously propulsive new single ‘Selling Shovels’; Merce Lemon’s wistful, fiery new track ‘Backyard Lover’; and ‘Breath Out’, the cavernous, mesmerizing first single from Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn’s second collaborative LP.
Best New Songs: July 15, 2024
Song of the Week: Johnny Blue Skies, ‘Jupiter’s Faerie’
Kelly Lee Owens, ‘Love You Got’
Magdalena Bay, ‘Image’
Christian Lee Hutson, ‘After Hours’
Laura Marling, ‘Patterns’
Silverbacks, ‘Selling Shovels’
Merce Lemon, ‘Backyard Lover’
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn, ‘Breath Out’
