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Lonely Tonight
It’s a quarter after one, Blake’s a little drunk and with nothing on TV, the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year decides to see if an old flame is willing to partake in the year’s most emotionally devastating booty call. On his previous Monroe duet, “You Ain’t Dolly (And…
Hope for the Future
Paul McCartney has lived through plenty of cultural changes – including, it seems, an era in which video games have soundtracks written by legendary former Beatles. This song for the new game Destiny is a gently ringing paean to human possibility and discovery recorded with a massive orchestra that comes…
Lake Song
Alas, poor Colin Meloy. Cursed with a photographic memory, post-collegiate vocabulary and melancholy disposition, he must relive his life’s every insecurity in Dickensian six-minute indie-folk ballads. His latest single with the Decemberists finds the singer meditating on an unrequited teenage love he had for a downright stubborn, “sibylline” would-be paramour….
Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
At various points in Father John Misty’s musical account of his honeymoon, the eccentric folk-rocker and his newlywed celebrate “satanic Christmas Eve,” “lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in” and ruminate on how “dating for 20 years just feels pretty civilian.” Playing out like one long, stream-of-consciousness…
“Unapologetic Bitch”
Bitch, she’s Madonna. The queen of queens has given a taste of her upcoming album, Rebel Heart, with a few songs dropped in advance after an early leak of unfinished versions. And the girl’s in a feisty mood these days – Madonna writing herself a theme song called “Unapologetic Bitch”…
“First Kiss”
The self-proclaimed rock & roll Jesus returns with a small-town anthem that name-checks Doubting Tom Petty and suggests John “the Baptist” Mellencamp. Kid tells us about the kiss, but he finds salvation in the memory while getting sentimental about two much-contested notions: the innocence of youth and the greatness of Eighties…
“The Scene Between”
Some cotton-candy jump-up drum tumble, some ruffled-sleeve harpsichord, wild-style samples, sugar-sharp melodies and chirp-along pep-rally yammering – all orchestrated within an inch of their pretty little lives. It’s just the Go! Team doing its adorable joy-grenade thing like the illest party starters in Munchkin Land. The UK crew’s new one quotes…
“Shine”
A decade after Gwen Stefani and Pharrell collaborated on dance-floor banger “Hollaback Girl,” they’re steeping their emotions on a pop-reggae allegory about a bear with an identity crisis for their contribution to the Paddington soundtrack. As improbable as the premise sounds, parents can enjoy it almost as much as their…
“Trap House Stalkin”
Leave it to perennial party-man 2 Chainz to turn a song about real-life horror – somebody lurking around a drug house – into a quasi-celebration. As a jittery trap beat shuffles around ominous piano notes, the rapper brags about drinking “Dom Pérignon by the pitcher” and deals barely-subtle sex metaphors about…
“Air”
“Air” is filled with hypotheticals. As a relationship falls apart, Waxahatchee frontwoman Katie Crutchfield weighs the meaning of every action and the possibility within every choice, her careful articulation revealing not indecisiveness but empathy. When she draws out the line “You are patiently giving me everything I didn’t need,” you feel for…
“Uma Thurman”
Fall Out Boy go hard on the pop culture kitsch appeal here — not just with the title, but with a surfy refrain nicked from the theme to The Munsters, that most goth of black-and-white TV comedies. It’s pretty great that the biggest rock band on the pop charts are such…
“Heartbeat Song”
Clarkson’s been out of the game for a minute: Her last album, 2013’s Wrapped in Red, was holiday music, and she recently had a baby, lil’ River Rose, whose in-utero heartbeat was sampled to provide part of the beat for this new single. But “Heartbeat Song” is hardly a warm, fuzzy…
“Get It”
Brooklyn duo Matt and Kim announced their first record since 2012 with this rollicking preview of things to come. The driving drum beats and jittery synths, the mind-numbing group chants (“We all sing along/ But the notes are wrong”) and the abrupt, bass-heavy breakdown come together to provide an indie-pop soundtrack for almost any kind of debauchery.
“Shit (Remix)”
Label trouble, album delays and a high-profile public feud couldn’t keep Lil Wayne from rapping about the joys of freaky sex. He nods to his ongoing drama in the song’s first few bars but quickly gets carnal: “You might need lube for this,” he warns a partner. Given a few…
“Ordinary Guy”
Two decades may have passed, but alternative-era firebrands the Juliana Hatfield Three sound just as wistful and slackerish as when they scored hits with “My Sister” and “Spin the Bottle” in the Nineties. The trio’s comeback single, “Ordinary Guy,” finds the singer-songwriter playing a chunky, upbeat guitar line while singing…
“Sarah”
“Every day, I’ll make promises that plague Sarah’s heart/So I can watch her fall apart,” indie-rock wunderkind Alex G sings. On this doleful bedroom-pop nugget (written a few years ago, before his Internet-driven career took off), he turns his passive-aggressive warbling into bright, blurry poetry that anyone could love — except maybe…
“Black Sun”
Death Cab For Cutie’s new album is their first without founding member Chris Walla, and their first since frontman Ben Gibbard divorced Zooey Deschanel. So when Gibbard sings, “There’s a dumpster in the driveway of all the plans that came undone,” you know the sad realness is really real. But when defiantly raw…
“False Hope”
Sleepless, lonely Laura Marling paints a bleak picture: Women go crazy, her neighbors beg for help through the walls and she hears animals dying — it’s like a folk-rock Walking Dead, right down to the chilling strings that swell around the song. By the time she reaches the final verse, she…
“The Best Room”
Eight years have passed since Modest Mouse put out a new album, and if the urgency and absurdity of the Pacific Northwest crew’s new single is any indication, frontman Isaac Brock must be crawling out of his skin. It’s a frenetic onslaught of paranoia, silliness, endlessly elastic rhythms and swirling…
“Juicy Wiggle”
Some cite LMFAO’s bottom-shelf novelty hits as everything that’s wrong with today’s music. “Juicy Wiggle” (from the group’s Redfoo) makes the case that pop has been shamelessly silly all along, attempting an unlikely fusion of contemporary EDM and Fifties rock. This is how the hop would have sounded if your…
“No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross”
Indie folk auteur Sufjan Stevens is already a master at musical vulnerability, but on the first single off his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell — named for his mother and stepfather — Stevens finds a strikingly fresh way to rip open his wounds for the world. On the atmospheric “No Shade in…
“One Time”
You only live one time, so Migos offer a straightforward strategy for getting the most out of your days on Earth: Avoid repetition. The Atlanta trio affirm that the first cut is the deepest, the first chain is the brightest and first party is the most turnt. Their case adds…
“Don’t Wanna Fight”
The alluringly murky production on the Shakes’ new cut evokes the kind of schmutz-caked soul 45 you might discover in a rural junk shop that also sells M-80 explosives and candied hog jowls — the perfect funky feel for Brittany Howard’s beef-squashing plea. Over a guitar line that recalls James Brown’s…
“The Metal East”
In their ’00s heyday, this Rhode Island noise-punk duo splattered audiences with quick, giddy blasts of DayGlo brutality — usually setting up on the floor right in the middle of the crowd rather than playing from a stage. They’re back after a six-year hiatus, hammering away like Sonic Youth gone speed…
“Raising the Skate”
“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss,” commands frontwoman Sadie Dupuis on the first cut off New England pop-punk outfit Speedy Ortiz’s upcoming Foil Deer. While she’s not the first alpha female to echo the sentiment, her confrontational enunciation and ironic cooing over the track’s grungy, dizzying guitars are Dupuis’ own…
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