Best New Tracks Of The Week: 9/8/24
This week featured some familiar faces that have popped up on the best new tracks segment all year, see if they made it again. <3
5. Ruby Rosery - A$AP Rocky (feat. J. Cole)
So we're officially back in an era where Rocky is releasing music regularly and it's brought us to the reserved, J. Cole-featuring Ruby Rosery. Like Cole's appearance on Metro Boomin & Future's album earlier this year it's a more reserved moment than anticipated and yet his intimacy works well in this format. Both Rocky and Cole are casual but confident and as slick as ever on this memorable crossover.
4. I Walk - Mount Eerie
It's been a noticeable few years off for Mount Eerie since Phil Elverum returned to The Microphones with a unique and conceptual project in 2020 that sought to tell the story of how the project evolved with one single album-length track. Now he's back as Mount Eerie with a sonic palette that still exists within the intimate folds his music always has but isn't afraid to deploy a much noisier array of instrumentation in its second half. It's a track that manages to feel both old and new in a way fans should have no trouble falling in love with.
3. Made Out Of Memory - Nilufer Yanya
Of course the next single from Nilufer's upcoming album is great, why wouldn't it be. She's hit on nearly every single track she's released from the project thus far and this one is another embrace of a quieter, gentler side of her sound. Once again within that intimacy she strikes an impressive beauty and doesn't even require any interpolating of fuzzy shoegaze guitars or pummeling drums to do it.
2. Magic I Want U - Jane Remover
Earlier this year Jane Remover followed up one of the best albums of 2023 with one of the best songs of 2024 and I'm happy to report her hot streak continues. Doubling down on a shift away from contemplative shoegaze and into hot girl internet music this song features a punchy beat and evocative mouth imagery in an entirely different way than she's deployed in the past. But it's just as catchy and punchy as her ear for texture in production continues to be incredibly sharp. Another hit from one of the best operating in music right now.
1. Higher - Kelly Lee Owens
At this point, it's basically getting silly how reliable these artists are. Kelly Lee Owens has burst through with her new singles teasing towards what could be the best era of her career yet. She continues to step into her own as a vocalist and deliver songs with a compositional pop edge but without sacrificing the methodical electronica that she's always orchestrated in the past. This is another killer example of a song where she feels like the force propelling it forward and yet it's able to indulge in the whims of entrancing electronica nonetheless.
