Photos courtesy of Eve Alpert, Phobym, Tiffany Day
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order.
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Tiffany Day & slayr, “CONSTANTLY”
I heard that if you put this song on, it will roll down your car windows for you. L.A.-based hyperpop star Tiffany Day teams with Philadelphia rapper slayr for a track that is stacked with synths, chopped vocals that have been looped ad infinitum, and fat, backhanded bass. — Drew Neiman
Tierra Whack, “TOTEM”
Tierra Whack can run circles around almost any rapper, but I love when she lets the beat rock and her bars fall sparsely. The beat for “TOTEM” is as cold as an icicle and each line Whack delivers pierces like a shot to the arm. —Tobias Hess
Corridos Ketamina, “K Me Maten”
A syrupy, sludgy serenade about a cannibalistic love from a duo reworking Mexican corridos for the online generation. —Steffanee Wang
Tezzus, “AUBREY”
Atlanta rapper Tezzus’s latest mixtape THE RESURRECTIØN flips everything from “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry to “Halftime” by Young Thug, who’s taken Tezzus and the Øway crew under his wing. Tezzus tears into the Hit-Boy-via-PROJECT4PLAY instrumental on “AUBREY” ferociously: “We in Shibuya, I came from the ghetto [...] I just grew from the pain, I'm better.” – Vivian Medithi
Portraits of Tracy, “"Caught In A Jam"
Kitschy, delicious, elevating, and singular. Baton Rouge-raised, L.A.-based DIY musician Portraits of Tracy’s 60s-inspired return to music after 2023’s memorably epic Drive Home is a tour de force of production and melodic sweetness. And it marks the re-emergence of a real one to watch. — TH
crayon, “angry”
crayon, aka Taylor Kelley, is an altrocker from the campfire collective, which also counts bunii, kiheir, and plenty more among their ranks. He just dropped off a pair of singles last night, and I’ve already listened to “angry” ten times in a row. On it, crayon is venting about a floundering relationship, but his romantic malaise sounds crisp and keening here. – VM
This Is Lorelei, “Billy Came Back”
This Is Lorelei announced his new album, The Singer In My Band, with a track that could be ripped out of the Great American Songbook. Its subtly haunted lyrical overtones and cinemascope production gives it an ineffable quality that allows it to linger in the mind. — TH
Matt Proxy, “God (with current joys & never goodbye)”
Proxy told The FADER That “If you skip a single second of trojan horse you are shooting yourself in the foot,” and I think this closing track from the debut is proof of that. The instrumentation acts out Proxy’s brutally honest lyricism, self-destructing his own flow into a pit of blaring guitars. The song eventually drifts softly into nothingness with soft acoustic guitar strums and pitched-up vocals. – DN