Chvrches ProfileAnother week, another ten bangers are coming your way.
Each week, The Music sifts through streaming services, our inboxes, and our chats to choose ten new songs for our weekly playlist, The Music’s Friday Finds: The Week’s Best New Music.
We update the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, and it includes the hottest songs from Australia and around the world. This week, we’ve gathered new songs from CHVRCHES, Sampa the Great, Gracie Abrams, The Chats, Queens of the Stone Age, and much more.
Before you check out each song, here’s a short breakdown of the tracks added to our playlist this week.
CHVRCHES - Overthinker
In a peak CHVRCHES track, Lauren Mayberry sings a song for all the introverted overthinkers out there. Balancing mid-tempo pop melodies with an air of gothic energy and relatability, CHVRCHES are well and truly back with a banger.
Rum Jungle - The Elephants Head
With The Elephants Head, Rum Jungle push their sound with droning, engaging electronic synths and drums before the guitars come in for an undeniable indie-rock anthem.
Sampa the Great - Canary
Sampa the Great has always had a keen ear for catchy melodies and brought major energy to her music, but with Canary, she shares incredible bars over menacing beats, refusing to let up on the ominous vibe.
Gretta Ray - Every Aching Minute
Driven by an acoustic guitar, Gretta Ray sounds gorgeous on the stunning, devastating Every Aching Minute. It’s not the last time she brings beauty and sadness to her new album, Heartsong, but it sure is moving.
Gracie Abrams - Here You Come, There You Go
Gracie Abrams has launched into her Daughter From Hell deluxe era with the alt-pop banger, Here You Come, There You Go. Throughout the track, she blends gritty production with immediately anthemic lyrics.
Radio Free Alice - The Intersection
New wave and post-punk are best friends on Radio Free Alice’s debut album, What’s In Between, and never is that clearer than on The Intersection. With poppy grooves and Interpol-esque melodies, how can you not get pulled in?
The Chats - Off It
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard new music from The Chats, but listening to Off It, it feels like no time has passed, let alone years. They’re fired up with the AC/DC-like guitar sound and riffs, then the undeniable punk vocals come in.
Juice Webster - Care Yeah
Juice Webster delivers an air of ethereal tenderness on Care Yeah, a highlight from her new album, Kind of Fantasy. While there are gritty, unflinchingly honest tunes throughout the record, hearing some lightness and nostalgia on Care Yeah is more than welcome. And it’s no less rocking.
Eliza Hull - Balcony
Eliza Hull has always had a remarkable voice and blues-driven sound, but on Balcony, she takes her music to a whole new level. Adding elements of trip-hop to her signature sound, the haunting tune allows Hull to yearn beautifully.
Queens of the Stone Age - Run Away From the Mob
Queens of the Stone Age are great at getting weird, but on Run Away From the Mob, they get reflective and ferocious at once—super strange! Josh Homme’s pretty falsetto dominates most of the fascinating track, which evolves into a classic rock banger by the end. And with Dave Grohl on drums, it really is awesome.
Check out this week’s edition of Friday Finds on Spotify and Apple Music.
