
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below.
Ariana Grande, "dandelion"
Ariana Grande wants someone to “plant this seed” and “watch her bloom at night” on “dandelion,” a supernaturally horny song even by Grande's standards. But it’s the beat that is so sticky (thank you ILYA and Max Martin) with its jazzy intro that drops into filthy trap pop. —Steffanee Wang
Dava, "didn't we like that"
This sweet trip-hop song that sounds like being in the midst of a late-night crash out is by Dava, a young Los Angeles-based songwriter who used to make soulful pop tracks. I’ve listened to her latest now at least ten times, perhaps an indication she’s found a promising new direction. —SW
Dustin Wong, “Memories of Cordelia”
Dustin Wong’s new album, Gloria, is a rich world of dense digital sounds, inspired by a road trip down the West Coast he took with his late grandmother. On “Memories of Cordelia,” Wong’s guitar licks float in on gentle breezes to sit amid chugging percussion, a gentle symbiosis that’s invaded — though not unpleasantly — by reverbed crashes and snatches of synths beamed backward from another dimension. —Raphael Helfand
Thor & Friends, “Anne Sexton’s Monocle"
On “Anne Sexton’s Monocle,” omni-instrumentalist Thor Harris and 12 of his friends — a trio of mallet players (Harris included) surrounded by woodwinds, brass, and strings — lock into a minimalist groove that builds to maximal heights over the course of four-and-a-half minutes. Arriving with the announcement of Thor & Friends’ forthcoming album, Spiritual Heathens, it’s a full ecosystem of sound brimming with frenetic life. —RH
William Tyler, “Anima Hotel”
The latest single from William Tyler’s Time Indefinite is a churning sea of soft noise spreading from the simple emanation point of his guitar. Gentle acoustic strumming fades as languid synths bleed in and swell into a grand gulf of harmonious string sounds. “I imagine this as kind of a love song I wrote to different people, all of us having to stay at one of those middle-of-nowhere airport hotels awaiting a flight to be rescheduled,” Tyler writes in a press release. The result is an exquisite five-minute limbo you’ll never want to leave. —RH
Dazy, “Pay No Mind (To The Signs)”
Dazy’s sonic mood board mixes the swagger of Britpop with lo-fi slacker rock, and his new single “Pay No Mind (To The Signs)” continues that interplay. A chilled-out rock number that recalls the feeling of being the right amount of tipsy on a gloriously sunny day — “what worries, we’re just chilling, dude” — it's to be listened to on repeat at the brewery all summer. —Cady Siregar
Momma, “Rodeo”
Momma’s fourth album, Welcome To My Blue Sky, is about understanding what you need to let go and when. It was written when the duo were touring their breakout third album, when both Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten broke up with their partners. “Rodeo,” a grunge-y, alt-rock anthem, is written from the point of view of their exes, a way for the band to shoulder some accountability: “All I know is your rodeo/ I can't wait for you.” —CS
Real Lies, "Finding Money"
Real Lies' music is proudly nostalgic, the wistful product of a band old enough to love festival rave artists like Underworld but too young to have truly lived in the mid-90s pomp. "Finding Money" has that same spirit of chemically induced euphoria that comes with escaping everyday drudgery but updates it for the present day. Vocalist Kev Kharas trades spoken word lines with actress Jessica Barden as they take on the roles of a couple shedding old fashioned dreams of happiness and finding a new alternative. The result is a love song for pragmatic times. —David Renshaw
Nemzzz, "Chant"
Taken from the deluxe edition of his lively and confident new project Rent's Due, "Chant" pairs Nemzzz with fellow U.K. rapper Chy Cartier. The pair make a formidable duo as they go bar for bar over a spacey and blissed out beat that still kicks hard. Chy Cartier just about edges it though as she dissects the two sides of her personality: the tough street persona and the girl who wants to forget life on the road when date night comes around. Getting that energy across in such a short verse is an impressive act of economical writing. —DR
Bb Trickz, "not a pretty girl"
Rapping in a mix of Spanish and English over a Clairo sample, bb trickz sips juice from her double cup and flames the men dumb enough to fumble their chance with her. She growls and tears at the beat, throwing out lines about not needing an OnlyFans and her trust issues, reimagining the lo-fi original in her own tough but glamorous image. —DR
Corey Lingo feat alyorra, “As Far As You Know”
If you’re a casual fan of Chicago drill or a dedicated fan of the SoundCloud underground, you’ve probably heard one of Corey Lingo’s beats for rappers like Fredo Santana, Ski Mask the Slump God, and Uno The Activist. As a solo artist, Lingo brings the pluggnb generation full circle to the 2010s R&B era it’s inspired by, layering buttery Chris Brown-style vocal runs over psilocybin-streaked Candy Land beats. “As Far As You Know,” a standout from his great new EP Go Where From Here, is a lovesick duet with alyorra, a fellow member of the VLM collective, that taps an uncanny version of nostalgia that sounds ripped from a certain era and fresh at the same time. —Jordan Darville
Seventhirtyatmorning, “what for”
Emotional masochism sounds as fresh as a new Wraith on the latest song from Minneapolis rapper seventhirtyatmorning. Transmitted from the eye of Hurricane Down Bad, “what for” has seventhirty spilling his guts in all kinds of fashions, uncomfortable and occasionally gross: “When I think of you right now, you like a crusty scab or sore / You gon’ hurt me but I gon’ pick you anyway.” The song’s beat is defined by streaking, loping synths that move with the steady resolve of a cyborg’s machinery: unstoppable and steely, with a beating, bleeding heart at the center. —JD