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 ‘I Walk’, a haunted, beautifully swirling single off Phil Elverum’s upcoming Mount Eerie album Night Palace; MJ Lenderman’s ‘Wristwatch’, a glimmering highlight off his new album Manning Fireworks that serves as a study of male fragility (with “I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome” in the running for lyric of the year); ‘Not This Time’, the intimate, aching new single from Georgia Gets By, the solo project of BROODS’ Georgia Nott; Jane Remover’s slinky, ecstatic new single ‘Magic U Want’; Grumpy’s glitchy yet cutting ‘Saltlick’, the New York-based project’s first single for Bayonet Records; Lunar Vacation’s latest single, the tenderly enchanting and expansive ‘Fantasy’; My Wonderful Boyfriend’s catchy, cathartic new song ‘My New Shirt’; and Ada Lea’s ‘come on, baby! be a good girl for the camera’, which playfully tackles the challenges of “making it” in the music industry.
Best New Songs: September 9, 2024
Song of the Week: Mount Eerie, ‘I Walk’
MJ Lenderman, ‘Wristwatch’
Georgia Gets By, ‘Not This Time’
Jane Remover, ‘Magic U Want’
Grumpy, ‘Saltlick’
Lunar Vacation, ‘Fantasy’
My Wonderful Boyfriend, ‘My New Shirt’
