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.
Warped horns and frenzied strings make up The 1975’s quirky “Part Of The Band,” an off-kilter and folksy new sound from the U.K. pop band. (YouTube)
Aespa hit the pop jackpot with “Life’s Too Short,” the bubbly standout from the girl group’s latest mini album, Girls, that’s everything you want from a three-minute feel-good banger. (YouTube)
Alvvay’s first track in five years is excellent, proper shoegaze: big, wavy synths and that overwhelming feeling of sound that feels bigger than you. (YouTube)
Burna Boy recruited Blxst and Kehlani for this breezy afrobeats jam that sounds built for beachside listening. (YouTube)
King Princess’ songwriting is at its most gutting and evocative on the beautiful “Change The Locks,” which includes striking production from The National’s Aaron Dessner. (YouTube)
Doechii’s “Bitch I’m Nice” is such a force of rap finesse you won’t even notice it’s only one minute and 26 seconds. (YouTube)
FLO, your next favorite R&B girl group, crafts yet another stellar break-up banger in the vein of TLC and Destiny’s Child. (YouTube)
NYC rapper and singer Melii’s serpentine new offering “Mala” gets all of its appeal from her sultry Spanish-laden verses and the song’s deceptively simple club beat. (YouTube)
The xx’s Oliver Sim ponders love across timezones on “GMT,” his woozy solo single that will make all The xx aficionados nostalgic. (YouTube)
Written after surviving a car accident, rising Utah rapper MASN’s “Adrenaline” is his breathless, snappy ode to living on the edge (to a reasonable extent). (YouTube)