Every week, we bring you #SOUNDCHECK — your destination for the best new music that hit the web over the course of the week. Because you should always be prepared when someone passes you that AUX cord. This week's roundup features 10 of our favorite emerging and established artists.
With its dazzling tropical fantasy music video, Shygirl’s “Heaven” rework with Tinashe sounds like hyperpop made for mermaids. (YouTube)
Fred again.. turns the tender poetry of rappers The Streets and Dermot Kennedy into a chest-panging ‘90s house jam. (YouTube)
There’s incindiary chemistry between j-hope and J. Cole on the BTS rapper’s warmhearted “see you later” to his fans. (YouTube)
Every progressive listen of boygenius’ emotionally colossal new single gets better and better. (YouTube)
Momma, NYLON’s prediction of indie rock’s next “It” band, delivers some really delicious ‘90s and early ’00s guitar angst and signature big-arena hooks on “Bang Bang.” (YouTube)
Peach PRC’s slick flip and interpolation of hellogoodbye’s “here in your arms” on her latest is *chef’s kiss.* (YouTube)
Arabian nights meet DIY bedroom pop on eclectic East New York song-maker Ernest Rareberrg’s “Pirelli.” (YouTube)
May Rio’s ascetic troll anti-love anthem (watch the music video) is a wondrous concoction: squiggly synths, plinky drums, and her own cartoonish croon. (YouTube)
Ditching an untrustworthy partner has never sounded so easy on Arlissa’s weightless, soulful bop, “Hard To Be.” (YouTube)
The riotous, jolting “Barley,” from NYC band Water From Your Eyes, is one part meditative count-up to four and one part commentary... on the soul-crushing monotony of life under capitalism? (YouTube)