
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below.
Bedridden, "Etch"
Brooklyn natives Bedridden release their music on Julia's War, essentially the Motown of the ongoing shoegaze revival. "Etch," the lead single from their forthcoming debut album, Moths Strapped To Each Other’s Backs, is winding and hooky, with vocalist Jack Riley exorcising a rage within him amid a blizzard of soothingly loud guitars. —David Renshaw
Joon Gloom, "Jinx!"
Joon Gloom revives the spirit of witchhouse on her glitchy and euphoric new single. The Los Angeles-based artist, who’s loosely affiliated with Drain Gang, wrote the song about the allure of her hometown and the darkness that lies beneath the A-list exterior. "I'm a star, look at me," she sings with a starlet's naivete as a cavalcade of beats explode around her. —DR
Raisa K, "Stay (feat. Coby Sey)"
Written by Raisa Khan alongside her Good Sad Happy Bad bandmate Mica Levi, "Stay" is a strikingly tender song about commitment and sacrifice in a relationship. Spare guitars and K's plainspoken vocal delivery combine into a sensation akin to the world slowing down, just for a minute. Recorded as a duet with fellow Londoner Coby Sey, the song will appear on K's upcoming solo debut Affectionately, due out on March 15. Add this to your Valentine's Day playlist now. —DR
William Tyler, “Star of Hope”
The final piece of the tryptic released by William Tyler along with the announcement of his next album, Time Indefinite, “Star of Hope” is a warped, teary sing-along — an afterlife “Auld Lang Syne” delivered by a ghostly chorus in words beyond human comprehension, perhaps to a fellow traveler returning from behind the shroud to their next life on Earth. —Raphael Helfand
Helena Deland, “Silver and Red”
You can always count on Helena Deland to deliver spectral, atmospheric tracks that are nevertheless concise and immaculately composed. On “Silver and Red,” the new single from her fifth acoustic EP, the Montreal singer-songwriter’s silken voice breezes across gently finger-picked guitar and a faint chorus. “The air, silver and clear / Bed of pine needles you tread, my dear,” she sings. “Go to the lake, still as a plate / Wait 'til others leave / To dunk your head in freezing water.” —RH
Sophia Djebel Rose, “L' Homme au Costume Doré”
The third single from Sophia Djebel Rose’s forthcoming album, Sécheresse (French for “Drought”), is an ominous, theatrical ballad. In “L’ Homme au Costume Doré” (“The Man in the Golden Suit”), her flair for the melodramatic evokes the chansonniers of her country’s past. Her delivery is intense, but it’s delivered over meandering drones and scattered washes of static that push and pull her voice like irregular tides. —RH
d0llywood1, “Be there”
After her 2024 mixtape This is just a Dream (and soon I will awake) confirmed her as one of digicore’s essential artists, d0llywood1 isn’t letting up. “I’m going hard, I swear I just needed a break,” she raps on “Be there,” her second single of the year so far that rests on the more blown-out spectrum of her catalog. This is trap music for the Meshuggah set, distorted orchestral stabs and cartoon sound effects providing a chaos that’s brought back to earth by the wounded swagger of d0lly’s flow, recalling Lil Tracy at his most sincere. —Jordan Darville
diamond*, “use me”
Young Thug’s legacy is alive and thriving in diamond*’s music. The young rapper’s melodies are more sedate, never quite reaching the surreal peaks of his forebear, but still placing him within the ranks of similar acolytes like Sahbabii. His musical journey since 2023 has been a search for a sound that’s his and no one else’s, occasionally reaping fascinating experiments like the zapping techno-trap of “yØla.” “use me” is a bit more familiar for its trap synths and overwhelming distortion, making it something like a digicore and dark-plugg hybrid. But diamond*’s sense of fun makes everything feel fresh as he packs the songs with bars that stick in your head: “I hit the draco so many times, I’m doing the shoulder lean.” —JD
Simona, "Sigilosa"
You will blow out the bass if you blast Simona's "Sigilosa," a chaotic but sexy perreo-club banger. The rising Barcelona-based singer makes dance songs that are a lot of everything and she's someone to keep an eye on: Kali Uchis, Ralphie Choo, Rusowsky, and more have already given their co-signs. —Steffanee Wang
Obongjayar, "Not In Surrender"
London's Obongjayar bangs out a song about feeling liberated over a criminally catchy '80s inspired dance beat full of cow bells and ripping synths. "I put my hands up not in surrender / I’m getting ready to fly," he sings. After a few listens, I still can't tell if he's referencing euphoria in the bed or in the club, but I guess there's ultimately not that much of a difference. —SW