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.
The 13-member boy band’s sunny, first English-language single is an absolutely swoon-worthy declaration of love. (YouTube)
Mallrat’s sweet summery serenade gets a colossal lift from Azealia Banks, whose iconic and irreverent verse ends on an incredible lyric: “My p*ssy tighter than Nicole Kidman’s face.” (YouTube)
Every summer there’s one dance song that reigns over the rest and, this year, we’re putting our bets on Swedish House Mafia’s hopeful and soaring anthem featuring U.K. singer Connie Constance. (YouTube)
This playful reggaeton highlight from Anitta’s wide-ranging new album goes full-throttle with a stomping breakdown in its last minute. (YouTube)
With her voice wrapped in vocoder, Phoebe Bridgers delivers another lyrical doozy with “Sidelines.” “And I used to think you could hear the ocean in a seashell/ What a childish thing,” she sings. (YouTube)
Starting off as a seemingly standard piano ballad, “Memories,” Conan Gray’s version of a break-up song, bursts into vivid, IMAX color midway through. (YouTube)
Exuberant guitar and Fashion Club’s deep, resonant vocals mix for a compelling exploration of the sometimes difficult methods we use to cope. (YouTube)
A slow-burning love song, Tomberlin’s “sunstruck” tells the tender story of a relationship coming together with poetic deftness. (YouTube)
Ottawa-based musician fanclubwallet wrestles with liking themselves on this punchy, lo-fi track that’s more upbeat than its lyrics belie. (YouTube)
Singer Tanerélle’s “Twin Flame” is only two minutes long but that’s enough time to get fully lost in its watery and warm depths. (YouTube)