fakemink’s “Fidelio” and the best new songs right now

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.

Yes, this sounds like everything else in fakemink’s catalog (blown-out bass and crunchy synths) and yet I’m still head-bobbing to every single one of his weirdly PG but still hard bars: “This the school of hard knocks, yeah, you know I ain’t skippin’.” —Steffanee Wang

This is K-pop if Oklou made it. Slippery and serpentine, “Do you feel it like i touch” really finds its own groove — and Yves’s voice — in the second half when things disintegrate and come back together as a dark club mix. —SW

The first three songs from Daniel Lopatin’s upcoming Oneohtrix Point Never project Tranquilizer signal a return to the dimension-hopping sample alchemy that defined his 2011 breakthrough Replica. The standout is “Lifeworld,” a conflagration of new-age signifiers and atmospheres. The tempest eventually settles into a Lopatin-esque rhythm where the sharp stutters are smoothed out by pan flutes and stretched-out vocals. —Jordan Darville

An increasingly rare artist who sees indie pop as more than just wallpaper, Lala Lala has steadily built a discography that aims boldly for the heart. “Does This Go Faster?,” her first single for Sub Pop, has the outlines of a capitol-s “Single” you’d imagine a label would salivate over: an exultant hook, Haim-worthy melodies, and drums that burrow their way into your groove cortex. But a good-time jam this is not: a panic storms through the song as Lala frantically interrogates her motives and surroundings. —JD

Having a 45-song album with no skips would make you either an anomaly or one of the hardest rappers in the game right now. Doing that and successfully flipping one of Lil Uzi Vert’s best songs? That puts you in the rare 1%. Hurricane Wisdom takes Uzi’s “The Way Life Goes” sample and owns it with soulful nostalgia, like Uzi left it sitting in his high school locker before he dropped out. Uzi’s interpolation of Oh Wonder’s “Landslide” was beautifully done, and now the sample will ride the streets of another generation. —Kylah Williams

Gabriel Jacoby swallows the strings of an electric guitar and spills out its sound as he sings “just trust me baby, baby, baby, baby.’ The raspy-voiced R&B artist, producer, and songwriter has been on a funk-fueled singles run — and its clear he doesn’t plan to let up anytime soon. —KW

Keep this song away from your nearest polyphonic or you’ll be forced to watch them freak out over every angle of this song’s production. Timbaland-coded as hell, it’s a throwback to the golden era of Mario and Lloyd videos on BET’s 106 & Park. —KW

New British girl group XO arrives with “Real Friends,” which boasts a Charli xcx-co write. The five-piece bridges the gap between Little Mix and KATSEYE with a song that’s messy but charming: a tribute to keeping a ride-or-die circle that makes you want to be part of the gang. —David Renshaw

Truman Sinclair is a Chicago-born artist who exists in the slipstream downhill from Alex G. His song “dustland” pulls from folk and Americana traditions, too, with a little country fried twang and immersive storytelling. “Now you’re sitting at the military fair and / They’re cutting off all your golden hair,” sets the scene for a rousing coming-of-age tale. —DR

Bassvictim’s new album Forever is a pivot for the London duo, away from speaker-rattling indie sleaze revivalism and toward something more wholesome and twee. Millennial fans of Passion Pit or The Shins may still feel some muscle memory listening to “Forever Salty,” but the blown-out production gives it enough of a modern edge. —DR

If you rock thigh-high boots with a purse packed with hedonism, Ashnikko’s “Liquid” — and the entirety of her new album Smoochies — was made for you. The bass of this song bumps harder than the one you may have had in the bathroom stall five minutes ago. —KW