Best New Songs Of The Week: November 7th, 2021
This weekend absolutely fucking ruled. I ended up with more then 15 songs just on the list for consideration for the best tracks of this week so please do yourself a favor and look around for all the great stuff that came out this weekend. The best new tracks of the week are below:
5. Smokin Out The Window - Silk Sonic
This track relies on the one thing that Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars have in spades, charisma. On the surface it's a male music classic story of female money chasing and betrayal that comes from exactly as shallow a perspective as you'd expect. What makes it work is both their voices which can deliver narrative hooks and team up for beautiful harmonies on the hooks. If you can ignore the icky premise that the entire track is built on it's buttery smooth.
4. This Side Of The Sun - Shame
Shame have never been a gentle band but on This Side Of The Sun they dig in on some of the best lyricism yet. Thankfully it comes without skipping a beat on the instrumental side of things which continues to be exactly the rousing hard-hitting post-punk you'd expect. I wasn't anticipating the band to be back this soon but they clearly had a good reason to do so.
3. ROSEMARY'S REVENGE - Backxwash
With one massively acclaimed album already under her belt in 2021 Backxwash returned with a celebratory single dropped on Halloween and it's an unstoppable rumbling rap banger. From the murky unrelenting beat to Ashanti's powerfully screamed vocals everything about the song is dialed up to 11 and then dialed up a little more.
2. Car Crash - IDLES
After IDLES third studio album took a bit of a critical beating they seem to be back and intent on proving they are far from the shallow chanting bar band they are made out to be. Car Crash is a bruiser of a song with absolutely pummeling distant percussion and 4 minutes of mostly unrelenting intensity. It's exactly what the group is so perfectly equipped to do well.
1. Bread Song - Black Country, New Road
A 6 minute Black Country, New Road string ballad that uses the analogy of eating in bed and leaving crumbs behind to depict the mental anguish someone can leave behind with you, sign me the fuck up. Seriously though this is a fan favorite that the band has played live a few times and on the back of an unfortunate tour cancellation this week they clearly knew exactly what to deliver to please their fans.
