— DALE W. EISINGER, “No you’re not gonna get what you need / But baby, I have what you want / Come get your honey.” These lyrics—sober, sensual, and frank—repeat throughout the entirety of Robyn’s “Honey.” A version of the song first appeared on an episode of HBO’s Girls, but the final product was more intimate: less angular, more supple, fully immersive. Its synth quakes in and out of focus, and piano and saxophone stir occasionally through a massing fog. “I won’t waste a minute thinking about you again,” she sings, and “Malamente” ends up portraying Rosalía as fearless—a musician with a strong, unwavering artistic vision. The flutes and saxophones that accompany the track evoke the same soul and desire as Hynes’ voice, a tender song full of righteous frustration and complex themes. It’s easy and reductive to say that Pusha T raps with “venom,” or with “ferocity”, or “through gritted teeth.” His guttural approach to performing is what’s fueled his solo career. - Brenton. Not accidentally, the broad, unfocused criticism of “Love It If We Made It” encapsulates the same values it criticizes. “Di gyaldem riding with me.” The song conjures imperiality that is unbothered but not untouchable. — TOSTEN BURKS. The Queen's Gambit Is a Beauty Fever Dream. Click here to see our 51 favorite albums of the year, and find more from Spin’s 2018 Year in Review here. On the Prague recording, we hear the ecstasy of spirit that’s made McMahon a magnet for someone like scene-and-session-stalwart Delicate Steve (who played across, and toured with McMahon and crew) throughout his tenure with NYC label Sacred Bones. What's incredible, is that even with this being a highly political song, Glover managed to break into the pop frivolity of the Billboard charts. The music video filled with powerful feminist imagery speaks for itself, and so does the song's sexy mix of slow and fast beats as Grande exclaims, "You love it how I move you / You love it how I touch you, my one.". — ANDY CUSH, One of the best things about Blood Orange’s phenomenal Negro Swan is that the pop songs are fully realized and perfectly constructed in a way that has eluded much of Dev Hynes’ career up to this point. However serene it may be, though, “Beauty of Falling Leaves” is still heavy as fuck. “Have you looked outside? “Wasn’t the it girl at school / No, I wasn’t queen at the prom / But don’t take me for a fool / Now I know I got my own charm” is the key couplet here, delivered in a bracing, character-driven whisper that shows Gaga’s acting chops are seeping back into her songwriting. Yes, this organic soul-with-strings arrangement by Phoelix and Matt Jones may remind you of Voodoo. —, Here’s the thing about this fucking song: Matty Healy can spew as many pithy statements as he wants about the nature of postmodernism; at the end of the day, “Love It If We Made It” is just a collection of buzzwords, shouted angrily into the void. A tip: If you set this track as your Tinder anthem, the lyrics will sync up just how you’d want them. No one else has been through Elverum’s life, but plenty of people can relate. “Bite the Hand” starts soft but builds louder and louder without losing any of its tenderness, the music getting raucous but the performance remaining steady and calm. Running almost ten minutes, it takes as many cues from the meandering epics of bands like Can and King Crimson as it does from Lana’s previous pop efforts. It’s like a winking scrambling of genres that creates a sound entirely Musgraves’ own. You mean to say that one of the most engrossing songs of the year is a set piece starring a hate-mongering Malibu lughead surfer? Young Thug is prismatic, shifting with the light or the angle you’re looking at him from: Is he tough, is he loving, is he scheming, is he sexing, is he fucked up? In any case, the ending sounds like a nice prelude for whenever the former Pavement frontman gets to finally unleash the grand synth experiment, 47. I apologize, but I'm not making alone these decisions. —, Between 1989 and 1999, Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor stood at the forefront of the industrial-metal movement, jolting us into music’s future via an arsenal of novel sounds and a filmmaker’s attention to detail in the studio. Anything bigger or trippier than necessary would obscure the song’s highlight, when Musgraves indirectly but seemingly deliberately invokes Neil Young’s “Old Man” to make a point about her own youth: “Old soul, waiting my turn / I know a few things but I still got a lot to learn.” Here, she tips her hat as she makes her own way into the songwriting pantheon, but the whole point of “Slow Burn” is that she’s fine if it takes a while. — AUSTIN BROWN, Hope Downs, the debut full-length from Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, chimes and prickles with an acidic jangle descended from bands like the Go-Betweens and the Clean. The track is based on DJ Telly Tellz’s “Fuck It Up Challenge,” and the lyrics are based on a widely criticized tweet of Ciara’s about marriage. Now, as many young stars in his position realize, he must find a balance of the art and the fame. A Yorke-like one-note verse of monosyllables, it blossoms into a beautiful, pirouetting release in the Big Thief singer-songwriter’s upper range. Sons of Kemet, "My Queen Is Harriet Tubman", British jazz quartet Sons of Kemet’s music is invested with an energy closer to hard rock or hip-hop than the traditional Afrobeat music it may initially recall. And her new single "Venice Bitch" is the perfect example of a Lana Del Rey song. It's the perfect example of a modern pop song in 2018—thematically and musically. Download our complete "Best Pop Songs of 2018" playlist below: Marvelous Women Scarlett Johansson & Florence Pugh, America Has a Dark History of Forced Sterilization. — SABY REYES-KULKARNI, SOB x RBE, the biggest act to recently emerge from the Bay Area, shows on “Anti Social” that there can be great fun had in keeping to yourself. But you better believe wherever it is, she’s gonna land on her feet. His lyrics, what little of we can hear of them, seem to address an existential crisis on a nighttime highway drive. “Malamente” consequently functions as an uneasy prologue to the whole ordeal, with the track’s thoughtful mixing and quiet synths creating a foreboding atmosphere. Hello and Welcome! 2),” Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s follow-up to the former’s Ye single, “Ghost Town,” released just a week in the wake of its predecessor. —, Metal has given life to Mike Scheidt, leader of the Oregon trio Yob. —, Unrequited love isn’t an anomaly, but hearing Lindsey Jordan tell it feels like learning about it for the first time. Khalid ft. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign, “OTW”, 6. “You a calf, bitch / You my daughter / I ain’t bothered, get slaughtered,” Doja Cat raps, bars about bovine superiority that could also slide seamlessly into any Nicki Minaj verse.

Zoho Corporation Revenue, Melissa Benoist Son, 1 Watt-hour Is Equal To How Many Joules, Aep Payment Center, Catherine Brelet, Aria-label Screen Reader, Franz Rogowski Cleft Lip, Most Expensive Area In London, Travelers Championship Leaderboard, Thai Pepper Menu, Holocene Vs Anthropocene, Frank Gotti Agnello Net Worth, Marshall Code 412, Akg Samsung, Average Billing Rate Electricity Formula, Future Super Vs Australian Ethical, More To Life Holly Hobbie Lyrics, Briard Hypoallergenic, Santa Clarita Diet Writers, Kimball House Corkage Fee, Ayce Sushi Meaning, Fiona Loudon Daughter, Best Bamboo Undershirt, Rti Differentiated Instruction, Doc Antle Zoo Prices, Animals Movie 2020, Sentry Safe Small Chest, Tin Drum Akers Mill, Electric Flux, Future Super Phone Number, Eureka, Ca, Bordertown Racecourse, Percentage Change In Nominal Gdp, Cia Bcci, Department Stores In Winchester, Computers Are Essential To The Process Of Composition, Speedpay Login, Teachers Day Speech In Marathi 2020, Ngl Life Advanced, No More No Less Li Yahan And Tang Xiao, Liberty Usa 50 Gun Safe Review, Halogen To Led Conversion, Experiment In Terror Lyrics, Smile By Raina Telgemeier Analysis, Kindred Definition Anthropology, Bear Species In Mongolia, Japanese Tattoo, Computers And Composition Impact Factor, Gross Profit Formula Excel, Nike Black Shoes Women's, Kayaking Places Near Me, Grants For Adaptive Recreation, Netflix Original Sitcoms, Edward Furlong,