It's impossible to be across all the new music out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists — emerging and established — to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the music world. The only criteria: they all have to absolutely rip.
Alice Longyu Gao — "Make U 3 Me"
Alice Longyu Gao translates the inscrutability and impossibility of having a crush into appropriately crushing metal-pop. It’s brutally relatable.
Kelela — "Washed Away"
Kelela breaks her deafening silence with the gorgeous ambient-leaning track, “Washed Away" — a serene and fluid showcase of her sorely missed voice.
Madonna & Tokischa — "Hung Up on Tokischa"
Madonna continues her series of forward-thinking catalog updates with "Hung Up on Tokischa" — a redo of the still-impeccable "Hung Up" that features a sublimely formidable Tokischa verse.
Bladee — "Drain Story"
Bladee channels Playboi Carti on this halting, woody trap track — a tense and unusually forthright taste of the Drain Gang leader's new LP.
Daphni — "Arrow"
The rollout for the forthcoming new Daphni record continues to delight and tantalise. "Arrow" is a glowing piece of ketamine-house that’s exhilarating, but deeply minimal.
Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson — "Big Time"
It’s hard to believe that Angel Olsen and Sturgill Simpson haven’t ever duetted before. Their voices sound gorgeous together, both soaked in pathos and charm.
BLACKPINK — "Shut Down"
Built around an insistent violin sample, "Shut Down" is BLACKPINK at their most menacing — a gorgeously braggadocious track that embodies the light/dark duality of their name.
Mura Masa & slowthai — "up all week"
Mura Masa and slowthai’s third collaboration is just as brilliant and driving as the first two — the kind of driving, glitchy rap track that could have appeared in an episode of Skins.
Weyes Blood — "It’s Not Me, It’s Everybody"
Natalie Mering returns as serene, witty and empathic as ever, drawing on the themes of her last album, Titanic Rising, while adding a new sense of resigned optimism.
Björk — "Ovule"
Although not as dark as "Atopos," the first single from Björk’sForossa, "Ovule" is still a fantastically earthy entry point to the Icelandic musician’s new world.
Photo courtesy of Alice Longyu Gao
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