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.
After a couple of subtler (though no less impactful) singles, CRJ is back on her sugary pop beat with the cheeky and inquisitive, “Talking To Yourself.” (YouTube)
Fred again...’s latest could be considered a remix of 070 Shake’s “Nice To Have” — the DJ’s favorite song of 2022 — but we’d rather think of it as a brilliant, wholly reimagined entity. (YouTube)
It turns out Ravyn Lenae’s spacey and sensual “Xtasy” can get better — with a newly added slinky Kaytranada beat and sassed-up Doechii verse. (YouTube)
Phoebe Bridgers laces Marcus Mumford’s “Stonecatcher” with her own gorgeous, plaintive vocals and makes the song even more tumultuous. (YouTube)
With her keen sense of melody, rhythm, and magnetic delivery, there’s no question as to why afro-pop wiz Arya Starr is one of Nigeria’s fastest rising voices. (YouTube)
Indie sleaze and hyperpop meet on Chloe Moriondo’s delirious new drum ‘n’ bass jam, “Cdbaby<3.” (YouTube)
Think The Weeknd but grittier for Montell Fish’s slow-burning and seductive latest single. (YouTube)
Californian singer-songwriter Dora Jar is building a surreal pop universe, and her shadowy, beautiful new addition “Bump” is one we’d willingly get lost in. (YouTube)
Nick Hakim begs for time to slow down on the hottest, sweatiest, and plushest love song we’ve heard this year. (YouTube)
The last lines of Dear Nora’s rambling new folk song “Shadows” are devastating — “We are grown, then we're gone and our fossils are tossed along” — but sung with such nonchalance you can only hear them as wisdom. (YouTube)