Sound Off: 10 Songs You Need to Hear Now
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the music world. The only criteria: they all have to absolutely rip.
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ROSÈ – “APT.”
Blackpink’s Rosé turns her favorite Korean drinking game into a cheeky, rollicking pop-rock track, featuring Bruno Mars, that arrives with an irrepressibly fun, Ting Tings-y video.
f5ve – “UFO”
J-pop ground F5ve return with this mutant pop song, produced by A.G. Cook, BloodPop and Count Baldor, that splits the difference between American-style hyperpop and early-2000s pop-R&B, finding a delicate balance between the two.
Panda Bear, Cindy Lee – “Defense”
Panda Bear teams up with Cindy Lee, aka Patrick Flegel, on this winsome, chugging rock track.
FKA twigs – “Perfect Stranger”
The latest single from Eusexua plays like a sequel to Twigs’ great Two Shell collaboration “Talk To Me,” an elastic happy hardcore track that roils with discontent and sadness.
Kylie Minogue – “Someone For Me”
The highlight from Kylie’s new album Tension II is this slinky, lovelorn dance-pop track animated by a chilly trance synth line.
MIKE – “Pieces Of A Dream”
“Pieces of a Dream” is dazed and incredibly lush, floating effortlessly though its all-too-short runtime.
Hildegard, Helena Deland, Ouri – “Pour Your Heart Out”
Hildegard’s new jazz-inflected sophomore record Jour 1596 is warm and inviting, and that vibe is epitomised by this shapeshifting boom-bap track.
Morgan Wallen – “Love Somebody”
Genius says this song interpolates Dua Lipa’s “Training Season,” which is kind of amazing. The country star’s second single from MW4 is breaking new ground.
Christopher Owens – “Beautiful Horses”
I love the ambling, soulful tone to this new Christopher Owens ballad, a highlight from his first album in many years.
Speakers Corner Quartet, Tirzah – “This Is How We Walk On The Moon”
Tirzah’s last album was populated with raging industrial beats and discomfiting textures; it’s a lovely change of pace to hear her with this live instrumentation.
Photography: John V. Esparza
It’s impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the…