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.
On this week’s list, we have the Smile’s jittery, kinetic ‘Zero Sum’, one of two new songs from their just-announced second album of 2024; Tucker Zimmerman’s pensive, wonderful ‘Burial at Sea’, which leads the folk veteran’s new album Dance of Love, featuring and produced by Big Thief; Adeline Hotel’s delicate, entrancing new single ‘Grief’; Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s sweepingly devastating ‘GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS’, the first single from their new LP “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”; Allegra Krieger’s striking, climactic new track ‘Came’; ‘Joy’, the stirring emotional centerpiece of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ new album; Eiza McLamb’s earnest, yearning country ballad ‘God Take Me Out of LA’; and ‘Every Dog’, the stunning lead single and title track off New York City-based singer-songwriter allie’s sophomore full-length.
Best New Songs: September 2, 2024
The Smile, ‘Zero Sum’
Song of the Week: Tucker Zimmerman, ‘Burial at Sea’
Adeline Hotel, ‘Grief’
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, ‘GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS’
Allegra Krieger, ‘Came’
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, ‘Joy’
Eiza McLamb, ‘God Take Me Out of LA’
allie, ‘Every Dog’