Best New Tracks Of The Week: July 16th, 2023
This was a fucking amazing week for new singles where tracks that could have topped the list at points this year missed the list entirely. Do yourself a favor and check out new songs from Forest Swords, JT, Yuele, Spellling, BIA, Baroness, A. Savage and Jung Kook because they're all great. I have a playlist every week for the best new tracks that stretched to a full 15 songs, you can check it out here <3
5. Affirmations - Hannah Diamond
This is exactly what I needed to wipe away the tears from PC Music closing down. Hannah returns with an absolutely vintage electro pop song that is as cute and catchy as ever. She also manages to bring her infectious pop production freshly into 2023 with bubbly synths, cheery vocal effects and a simple but complete earworm of a beat. This song rules.
4. The Trench Coast Museum - Yard Act
This is the best Yard Act song so far and frankly, it isn't even close. A hilarious 8-minute narrative about repurposing the trench coat for the modern day is packed full of unforgettable one liners. It's a song whose obvious lack of serious never makes it hit any less hard especially in the compositionally wandering second half.
3. Better - The Drums
If the impossibly sweet guitar tones of Drums songs don't grab you quickly enough, the impossibly catchy songwriting that follows behind surely will. Much like their previous era The Drums are on a parade of absolute excellence with single after single and might have one of the best albums of the year in the making.
2. Locals (girls like us) - underscores (feat. Gabby Start)
The fact that this isn't the best new song of the week is fucking ridiculous and tells you just how great of a week for singles it was. This song is a fucking jam that might even surpass the already excellent single Cops And Robbers underscores dropped earlier this year. The girlish charm combined with digital decay is utterly infectious and was drilled into my head permanently the moment I heard it.
1. Rush - Troye Sivan
Unless the song gets brought down due to tenderqueer leveled controversies about drugs and body image, the queer song of the summer has arrived. Troye's classic dance-flavored anthem is bouncier than a song like Bloom and more explicitly queer than a song like Take Yourself Home. The combination of the pair makes for a completely irresistible summer pop anthem that probably could have benefitted from coming out a few months earlier.
