Last week<\/a>, we featured Gracie Abrams, Drake and Maluma.<\/p>\n\n\tThis week: Olivia Rodrigo shares the second single from her forthcoming You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love<\/em>, Lola Young returns with the hearty \u201cFrom Down Here\u201d and Charli xcx continues to tease her new album with \u201cSS26\u201d \u2026 plus much more. Check out all of this week\u2019s picks below:<\/p>\n\n\tOlivia Rodrigo, \u201cThe Cure\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tFrom the first strummed chord of \u201cThe Cure\u201d one thing becomes clear: indie-rocker Liv has entered the chat. Across the near five-minute song, Rodrigo flexes her singer-songwriter muscles as the initial riff continues on, resulting in a song that would sound just as good at a stripped down, acoustic open mic session (though she\u2019s already been there, done that already for this cycle) as it would blaring through a stadium sound system. And once that bridge hits \u2014 introducing a swiftly sped up tempo for the song\u2019s final minute \u2014 her upcoming Unraveled Tour<\/em> name makes a whole lot more sense.<\/p>\n\n\tLola Young, \u201cFrom Down Here\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tFollowing a Grammy win for best pop solo performance (\u201cMessy\u201d) and ahead of a celebrated return to headline All Things Go<\/em>, Lola Young is sharing the soulful and soaring \u201cFrom Down Here.\u201d Co-written and co-produced by James Blake, his fingerprints are all over the track\u2019s enticing layers. Together, each one helps create a plush sonic playground for Young\u2019s vocals to jump around on \u2014 and in fact, it takes a voice like hers to not get lost in the sound but rather act as its guide no matter the vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\tCharli xcx, \u201cSS26\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tThe second single from Charli\u2019s upcoming album, once again, takes a turn down a new path (or, as she sings, down a \u201crunway that goes straight to hell\u201d). The surprisingly mid-tempo track puts Charli\u2019s vocals at the forefront and feels far removed from the divisive lead single \u201cRock Music\u201d \u2014 save for a subtle, unrelenting riff that at times leans heavy on fuzzy feedback. But really, it\u2019s the writing that provokes a second play as Charli sings of the inevitable end of the world through the lens of a new spring\/summer collection, concluding: \u201cNothing\u2019s gonna save us, not music, fashion, or\u205ffilm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBleachers, everyone for ten minutes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tFocus track \u201cwe should talk,\u201d from Bleachers\u2019 fifth album that arrives on Friday (May 22), wastes no time setting the agenda for what exactly should be talked about. \u201cWe had a band, we had a life, we had dreams\/ In a van we wrote our own Bible supreme\/ Then you got a house, a lawn, a wife and a kid\/ And those dreams turned to memories and that\u2019s where it ends.\u201d The flittering pop-rock track paints a picture a familiar crossroads between the life you\u2019ve already lived and the one that feels fast approaching \u2014 and what you want to do about it.<\/p>\n
\n\tBlondshell, Heart Has To Work So Hard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\tIndie rocker Blondshell is preparing for a big season ahead, announcing her biggest headlining shows for the fall and now launching her next cycle with the aching and angry \u201cHeart Has To Work So Hard.\u201d And while her distinct dismal tone stamps the song as only her own, the unrelenting production and musicianship create a new point of intriguing tension that could \u2014 and should \u2014 be explored more on a future project. As Blondshell shared in a statement: \u201cThis song is really about friendship and betrayal, getting stuck in a dynamic and letting things fester\u2026but it\u2019s also about a love so enduring that you find compassion no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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