Yves’ “Soap” and the best new songs out right now

Tracks we love right now, in no particular order.

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.

Alemeda, “1-800-F**K-YOU”

In May I saw rising Ethiopian-Sudanese musician Alemeda live and described it as a showing from an Avril Lavigne disciple with all the style of a pop star. “1-800-F*CK-YOU,” her new song, is a clearer example of what I meant. The effortless bop is all spiky guitar riffs roiling under crystalline vocal delivery hiding the big personality of someone who knows what she’s about: “You think you cold though, bitch I’m a snow globe,” she purrs. I’m expecting TDE’s latest female signee to have her moment soon. —Steffanee Wang

Beverley Glenn-Copeland, “Save The Children”

Glenn-Copeland’s second Marvin Gaye cover (shared alongside his version of “What’s Going On”) is an intensely moving rendition of the soul classic. In another, better world, you could dismiss the song’s message as trite; unfortunately, voices like Glenn-Copeland’s are still needed to appeal for basic human dignity. Glenn-Copeland duly bears the weight of this responsibility and the tragedy of the song’s timeliness as a full band unfurls gradually from his piano, digital strings and keys seemingly joining with his vocals in a hushed solidarity. It’s not till the end that Glenn-Copeland shows us the strain of the moment, his voice breaking as he whispers, “All the little children.” —Jordan Darville

Jay Som, “Cards On The Table”

Jay Som’s first record in nearly six years is shaping up to be a curious project. Not really indie rock but more lite electronica with a grungy twist, early singles like “Cards On The Table” show the musician scraping up new shapes for her interior musings — and learning to be vicious while sounding so sweet: “Paved your path, it’s what you deserve/ Rot in the backseat of your life,” she seethes on this delectable fuck-off song. —SW

FearDorian & osquinn, “Bags”

FearDorian and osquinn (aka quinn) have a synchronicity that transcends any creative differences. “I feel like me and quinn be connected by a brain cell, lowkey,” Dorian told me in June. “bags” is the first taste of their first collaborative LP, Before You Press Play, a clear indication of lowkey brilliance. Somber flows are combined with creatively chopped samples and speaker-knocking bass that conjure addictively energizing atmospheres. —Raphael Helfand

Tracey, “Sleazy”

The first single from the anonymous London duo since their excellent self-titled EP is a bright-eyed and bushy tailed sub/dom fantasy. The same sliced-up vocals from their breakout track “Sex Life” return with pleas to be smeared in dirt and stepped on, taking a brief interlude to mock someone for holding something disgusting. It’s chirpy techno pop fit for a BDSM dungeon in the Mushroom Kingdom. —JD

Yves, “Soap” (feat. PinkPantheress)

There are secretly three pop heroines on Yves’ latest K-dance heater “Soap”: Yves, PinkPantheress, and, surprisingly, Rebecca Black in the form of a sneaky “Sugar Water Cyanide” sample. It’s three queens coming together to maximize their joint slay, etc. etc., except that’s not an understatement. —SW

Anastasia Coope, “Pink Lady Opera”

Anastasia Coope’s debut album Darning Woman was a collection of warped folk curios based around entrancing, repetitive lyrics and percussionless instrumentation. On the lead single from her new EP, DOT, she expands her palette, painting over a stubborn drum line with more varied strokes. It’s a blurred fever dream that jerks you awake in its final minute, crystallizing in front of you before you get the chance to wipe the sleep from your eyes. — RH

Militarie Gun, “B A D I D E A ”

Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton turns a relapse into alcoholism into a cleansing shoutalong on this spiky first single from the band’s forthcoming album, God Save The Gun. Singing with the kind of simmering anger usually reserved for oneself, Shelton transforms his lapsed decision-making into an anthem sure to open up mosh pits for years to come. —David Renshaw

Pulgas, “The Sea”

Take a misty R&B track in the vein of Dijon, smash it into jagged pieces, and glue them back together at odd angles to get “The Sea,’ the lead single from Pulgas’ forthcoming album My Home is Made of Tin. The duo of Simon Martinez (aka Flanafi) and Zane Shields has been releasing music collaboratively since 2017, and “The Sea” feels like the fruit of a partnership in which each artist is pushing the other into unexplored territory. —RH

Snuggle, “Playthings”

Copenhagen indie duo snuggle will release their debut album, Goodbyehouse, on September 12. “Playthings” might just be their best song to date, Vilhelm Strange’s piano is heavy with reverb while Andrea Thuesen sings of domestic bliss and ghostly pleasures. —DR