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.
On this week’s list, we have Kendrick Lamar’s ‘squabble up’, a bouncy, hard-hitting, and lyrically scathing track off his surprise album GNX that interpolates Debbie Deb’s ‘When I Hear Music’; Horsegirl’s ‘2468’, the scrappy and playfully repetitive lead single from the band’s sophomore album; Courting’s frantically hedonistic and danceable ‘Pause at You’; Geese frontman Cameron Winter’s drowsy, Tom Waits-esque piano ballad ‘0$’; Daneshevskaya’s lulling yet deceptively lighthearted new single ‘Scrooge’; the Weather Station’s emotionally swirling ‘The Window’; and ‘Mental Health’, a biting, lushly orchestrated highlight off Father John Misty’s new album.
Best New Songs: November 25, 2024
Song of the Week: Kendrick Lamar, ‘squabble up’
Horsegirl, ‘2468’
Courting, ‘Pause at You’
Cameron Winter, ‘0’
Daneshevskaya, ‘Scrooge’
The Weather Station, ‘The Window’
Father John Misty, ‘Mental Health’
