Listening to the latest single from the Swedish pop star’s first album in eight years feels like drowning in a bittersweet, golden-colored sea.
Category archives: Song You Need to Know
Song You Need to Know: Terrorizer, ‘Caustic Attack’
Blast-beat expert Pete “Commando” Sandoval shows why he still excels at the style he helped to perfect, on a new track from the grindcore veterans
Song You Need to Know: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, ‘Shallow’
Gaga delivers a vocal performance that power-ballad scholars will be studying for generations.
Song You Need to Know: Lana Del Rey, ‘Venice Bitch’
Nine minutes of sad star-spangled nostalgia.
Song You Need to Know: Pip Blom, ‘Come Home’
Amsterdam indie-rock act gets locked in a killer post-punk groove
Song You Need to Know: Dilly Dally, ‘Doom’
Canadian indie band revels in scorched-earth joy and real vulnerability.
Song You Need to Know: Marc Ribot Featuring Tom Waits, ‘Bella Ciao’
The guitarist and singer resurrect an anti-fascist Italian folk song for the Trump era on a track from Ribot’s new ‘Goodbye Beautiful’ LP
Song You Need to Know: Rina Sawayama, ‘Cherry’
A subway missed connection makes for a fantastic Nineties-influenced pop banger from a rising star
Song You Need to Know: Free Cake For Every Creature, ‘In Your Car’
Katie Bennett’s indie-pop earworm makes for a perfect end-of-summer song
Song You Need to Know: Daniel Davies, ‘Shadows Alive’
With a pedigree that includes being the son of a Kink and working with one of horror movies’ greatest composers, Davies has made a chilling soundtrack of his own