Best New Songs Of The Week: July 31st, 2022
Two weeks of early posts, one week late. As it comes, so it goes.
Enjoy <3
5. Touch The Sun - Cryalot
If Sarah Bonito's second solo single as Cryalot doesn't click with you on purpose, try sticking with it because I had the exact same reaction and it's growing on me. The allegorical comparisons to Icarus start to add up and the hook is much stickier than it might get credit for on first listen. But it's really the song's dramatic sonic build-up to a sun-kissed and heavily distorted finale that sold me on its effectiveness.
4. Copening - Benjamin Clementine
There aren't many artists who I was more excited to hear from in 2022 than Benjamin Clementine and what he delivered was a pair of songs that feel very within his wheelhouse. The first is this eerie chamber ballad with echoing piano and gentle but utterly commanding refrains. It may not be as expansive as his best work but it proves exactly why it was such an anticipated return.
3. Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama
The Rina parade continues despite a blip in the form of an underwhelming second single. Hold The Girl lives up to the bill as a title track delivering a chorus that could have made it in the thick of 2000's pop excellence. The song also manages to deliver an anthemic bridge and perfectly timed key change to punctuate its ascent into the final chorus. Great single.
2. BLUE - Whitney
After a lead single that turned heads for some of the wrong reasons, what a return to Whitney to a much more familiar dreamy indie pop sound that they absolutely nail. From the gentle refrains to the utterly infectious instrumentation there is nothing here that doesn't work to reinforce the psychedelic and folk infused bliss of the track.
1. Death Of Melody - Preoccupations
Preoccupations return with one of the filthiest songs they've released in years while still managing to have catchy refrains at its core and the same distant reverbing guitars that made their best work soar, sign me up. This track really sees the band sounding like their heyday again and I haven't been able to get enough of it this week.
