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Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a \u201cSong of the Week\u201d designation. You can hear these songs in our ongoing Best New Songs of 2025 playlist<\/a>, which gets updated weekly.<\/em><\/p>\n As usual, Ratboys aim straight for the soft spot and hit it dead center. \u201cWhat\u2019s Right?\u201d moves like a late-night drive that keeps switching highways: verses idling on jangly guitars and a steady groove, three stitched-together drum tracks drifting the song into the next lane over. Julia Steiner sounds both haunted and lucid, tracing the edges of self-doubt until it starts to glow: \u201cMy subconscious is a man \/ He softly says to me \/ I\u2019ll vanish when you need me to,\u201d she sings, and there\u2019s an honesty to it that lingers. The band lets her wander: drums blooming and receding like weather fronts, guitars flickering between shimmer and static. It unspools until there\u2019s nothing left to hold onto, just the afterimage of a feeling too familiar to name and a guitar line that stays stuck in your head long after the song tapers out. Evidently, the Chicago band doesn\u2019t need volume to feel immense. \u2014Casey Epstein-Gross<\/em><\/p>\nSong of the Week: Ratboys, \u201cWhat\u2019s Right?\u201d<\/h2>\n