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.
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Jessica Pratt - "Life Is"
After five long years, Jessica Pratt is back, and, amazingly, she’s brought a full band along for the ride. Mauro Refosco’s percussion on “Life Is” adds an amazing new sense of grounding to Pratt’s rich, romantic folk music; hit play and feel transported.
Vampire Weekend - "Capricorn"
“Capricorn” is lush and beautiful, as so many Vampire Weekend ballads are. But it’s shot through with a devastatingly fatalist point of view, its no-hope attitude conveyed gracefully and brutally.
Hikaru Utada and A. G. Cook are a match made in heaven: After last year’s “Gold,” “A Flower of No Colour” is another song that begins as a sleek 90s-style ballad before slyly shifting tone into something more slippery.
Waxahatchee - "Bored"
Katie Crutchfield’s music has never had as much insouciant swagger as on “Bored”, a country-rock barnstormer that’s as saturated and detailed as the Tigers Blood album cover.
KUČKA, FLUME - "One More Night"
Desire transmutes into outright worship on “One More Night”, a skyward-reaching pop track that has all the reckless lasciviousness of peak Weeknd.
Sam Short, Harmony - "Aphrodite"
This vampy trap-pop track is a blast thanks to commitment to the bit and deeply creative lyricism: “That’s a man with some broken values” is threatening and horny in equal measure.
Bb trickz - "VIVA ESPAÑA !!! - Hoodtrap RMX"
Bb tricks, not content with bulldozing the competition on the original version of “VIVA ESPANA,” juices things with this ferocious, blown-out remix.
Bryce Xavier - "Sharp"
A muted 2-step beat adds depth and groove to this wounded piece of spaceboy pop from actor and singer Bryce Xavier.
VINCINT - "Good II Me"
VINCINT returns today with “Good II Me,” a fast-paced dance-pop track anchored by soaring vocals and lyricism.
Kim Petras - "Head Head Honcho"
Kim Petras returns with a Miami-themed sequel to her 2022 Slut Pop EP. “Head Head Honcho” sees her teaming with longtime collaborator Dr. Luke for an '80s-inflected track that throws back to early singles like “Heart To Break.”
Photography: Samuel Hess
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