Welcome to Sound Station, the place we’re highlighting the best new tracks that got here out this week. Head into the weekend with songs from Arlo Parks, Wednesday and extra.
Arlo Parks will make you are feeling “weightless” together with her new indie-pop single
After the monumental previous few years that Arlo Parks has had — profitable the Mercury Prize for 2021’s Collapsed in Sunbeams and incomes Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album — the British singer-songwriter is again. In anticipation of her new album My Soft Machine (out May 26 on Transgressive), she shared the lead single, “Weightless.” A bit sped up from her earlier songs, and buying and selling in groovy qualities for shimmery synths, the one finds her reflecting on how the halcyon days of a relationship made her keep when she should not have, and discovering the power to let it go. Her signature descriptive songwriting right here has an acuity for particulars — phrases like “strawberry days” and references to colours all through — to assist take you to the place she’s singing about having been, and the weightlessness she’s been looking for. —Sadie Bell
Wednesday’s newest country-rock stomp is an ode to Drive-By Truckers
Like many nice writers, Wednesday imbue their songs with a divine sense of place. Their newest single, “Chosen to Deserve,” is a monitor modeled after Drive-By Truckers’ “Let There Be Rock” however remembers vocalist/guitarist Karly Hartzman’s personal wild upbringing in Greensboro, North Carolina. Driven by a country-rock crunch, its five-and-a-half minutes fly by in a time warp of watching her associates get stoned off Benadryl, heavy-eyed mornings at Sunday college and crashing her neighborhood pool. Trust that you just gained’t need to miss their new album, Rat Saw God, out April 7 by way of Dead Oceans. —Neville Hardman
City and Colour’s “Underground” is a lightweight on the finish of the tunnel
When versatile singer-songwriter Dallas Green isn’t busy redefining post-hardcore with the newly reunited Alexisonfire, he performs as City and Colour to supply his most weak, delicate and breathtaking music — and his newest single “Underground” isn’t any exception. With the monitor, Green displays on the lack of a detailed good friend and the idea of mortality, providing a mature and uplifting message of profiting from your life and cherishing the little moments earlier than it is too late. Set to a soundtrack of soul and borderline gospel components, Green’s voice shines brighter than ever as he guarantees to be there for many who want him most. —Alessandro DeCaro
Softcult’s “Dress” is a dire and vital name for consent
Softcult are a band with an incisive message. With their newest single, “Dress,” the dual duo of Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn are uncompromising of their sound and imaginative and prescient. The music, accompanied by a robust music video, is a requirement for consent and respect overtop a shoegaze swirl that merely rips. By its finish, their cries of “Won’t ever feel the same again/I’ll never be the same again” lay naked a chilling and painful reality. —Neville Hardman
Pile’s “Nude With A Suitcase” is as engrossing as it’s unpredictable
Pile may simply be gearing as much as launch one of many best albums of the yr. This week, the Nashville-by-way-of-Boston indie-rock band shared the third single off the upcoming All Fiction (due out Feb. 17 by way of Exploding in Sound), “Nude With A Suitcase.” While lyrically it is a bit summary and is available in at over six minutes, you may be tuned into the whole journey, with the sound of Rick Maguire’s highly effective, earthy vocals and the music’s engrossing, forward-moving association. It takes turns you won’t have anticipated, piercing your coronary heart in numerous methods — however that is the great thing about a band like Pile. —Sadie Bell
The HIRS Collective’s “Trust The Process” will chew you up and spit you out
The HIRS Collective have mastered the artwork of powerviolence and excessive hardcore — and “Trust The Process” is one more instance. On the new monitor, the HIRS Collective make good on the promise of a community-driven undertaking by enlisting Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance, L.S. Dunes) and Rosie Richeson of Night Witch to supply much more depth to the blistering monitor. With panic chords that recall early Botch and Converge, fry screams and frenzied drum patterns, “Trust The Process” holds nothing again. Iero, who’s simply one of many many A-list contributors to the Collective’s upcoming album, appears like he took a web page from Glassjaw vocalist Daryl Palumbo’s e-book, with a contact of tongue-in-cheek ‘90s proto-screamo in the vein of Antioch Arrow and Pg.99. —Alessandro DeCaro
Kali Uchis releases another chillwave stunner
When a relationship ends, sometimes — after the first sting of bitterness passes — all you want is for the best for them. They meant the world to you at one point, after all. That’s the subject of singer Kali Uchis‘ latest, and she doesn’t just wish someone well; she wishes them roses. Like a rose, the chillwave pop song is soft and sounds romantic, even as it’s reflecting on the feelings that come once a relationship has dissolved. The release follows two more dance-centric singles, “NO HAY LEY” and “La Única (Sprite Limelight),” that were released in 2022 and sung almost exclusively in Spanish. It sounds like she deserves her roses, though, for whatever it is Uchis may be working on. —Sadie Bell
Sam Tinnesz and Nick Wheeler (All-American Rejects) tackle relationships on the rocks with “Spaced Out”
On “Spaced Out,” Sam Tinnesz sings his heart out to anyone in a relationship on the fritz. The breakup ballad, which incorporates everything from his love of emo to subtle country references, tackles the frustration of failed commitment through tender vocal performances that are sure to restore dopamine. And suppose you caught the All-American Rejects reference in the chorus. That’s the purpose, as Tinnesz enlisted guitarist Nick Wheeler of the beloved pop-rock quartet to supply a collection of playful guitar riffs to cap off the emotional curler coaster of the music. —Alessandro DeCaro
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