Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this best new music segment.
This week’s list includes black midi frontman Geordie Greep’s jazzy, pathetically sleazy debut solo single, ‘Holy, Holy’; Chat Pile’s gritty, doomful new single ‘Masc’; Closebye’s gauzy and compelling ‘Lucky Number’, taken from the New York band’s new album Hammer of My Own; Yaeji’s infectious club track ‘booboo’; Christian Lee Hutson’s lovely new song ‘Beauty School’, which features Katy Kirby; Laura Marling’s ‘No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can’, the delicate new single from her forthcoming LP Patterns in Repeat; Caroline Says’ tender, poignant new song ‘Faded and Golden’; Tanukichan’s entrancing collaboration with Wisp, ‘It Gets Easier’; and Searows’s devastatingly intimate new song ‘martingale’.
Best New Songs: August 26, 2024
Song of the Week: Geordie Greep, ‘Holy, Holy’
Chat Pile, ‘Masc’
Closebye, ‘Lucky Number’
Yaeji, ‘booboo’
Christian Lee Hutson feat. Katy Kirby, ‘Beauty School’
Laura Marling, ‘No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can’
Caroline Says, ‘Faded and Golden’
Tanukichan feat. Wisp, ‘It Gets Easier’
Searows, ‘martingale’