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 the Cure’s swirling, expansive new single ‘A Fragile Thing’; Charli XCX’s ‘I think about it all the time featuring bon iver’, which heightens the original track’s existential loneliness and yearning, but also, via Justin Vernon’s shimmering vocals and interpolation of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘Nick of Time’, renders it all the more tender and gorgeous; Ekko Astral’s sprawling, dynamic protest song ‘pomegranate tree’; Scowl’s infectious and explosive ‘Special’, the hardcore band’s first single for Dead Oceans; ‘Dust’, the tenderly beautiful centerpiece of Caroline Says’ new album; ‘I Wanna Be on Your Mind’, another gentle earworm from 2nd Grade’s upcoming LP that features Catherine Dwyer of Remember Sports; Lily Seabird’s ‘Fuckhead’, an intimate rendition of a song the singer-songwriter wrote when she was 16; and Youth Lagoon’s ‘My Beautiful Girl’, a beautifully ambiguous piano ballad.
Best New Songs: October 14, 2024
The Cure, ‘A Fragile Thing’
Charli XCX, ‘I think about it all the time featuring bon iver’
Song of the Week: Ekko Astral, ‘pomegranate tree’
Scowl, ‘Special’
Caroline Says, ‘Dust’
2nd Grade, ‘I Wanna Be on Your Mind’
Lily Seabird, ‘Fuckhead’
Youth Lagoon, ‘My Beautiful Girl’
