New Year, New Playlist. We try to keep up with all the latest indie singles released everyday on our Spotify playlist, the daily updated OE: Buzzworthy New Indie Singles, for an easy way to find that new new music. That can be hard to keep up with for even the crazed new music fan. Perhaps though, you just are looking for some strong recommendations in a shorter form. So for the new year, we will pair it down to at most 10 songs that we are really digging from the prior week’s newly released singles (Monday-Sunday) on our new Spotify playlist – The Weekly.
Last week was another big new music week with new singles from artists like The Drums, Xiu Xiu, Shovels & Rope, Cass McCombs, Wild Nothing, Anemone, Matthew Logan Vasquez, and many more that were worthy. But this week’s favorites include Strand of Oaks backed by My Morning Jacket (sans Yim), a Karen O and Danger Mouse collab, and even an André 3000 appearance on the just dropped new album from James Blake. There was also one last Sharon Van Etten single that dropped and made our list for the second week in a row from her now released brilliant new album Remind Me Tomorrow. Of course a couple of songs are more of the under the radar variety, including a new single from Twain, who’s still a criminally underrated songwriter.
As always, leave in our comments here or on socials with your recs from last week’s releases, any that we missed, gripes, comments on how much you hate the picks, or just general life changing moments experienced through a new tune. Heck even if you think it’s all wrong, subscribe to the playlist to see if we do better next week. Update with all new songs, coming each Monday. With love, it’s The Weekly:
The Weekly – Spotify Playlist – 1/21/19
- FEELS – “Awful Need”
- James Blake, André 3000 – “Where’s The Catch?”
- Karen O, Danger Mouse – “Women”
- Living Hour – “Water”
- Orville Peck – “Dead of Night”
- Panda Bear – “Token”
- Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – “Keen for Kick Ons?”
- Sharon Van Etten – “You Shadow”
- Strand of Oaks – “Weird Ways”
- Twain – “Death (or S.F.?)”
As always, if you find something new you dig, help spread the word, add to your playlists, buy their albums, go see the artist live, buy merch, help support the arts. And find some good local music to support.
