Photos courtesy of Nathy Peluso; Javan Foster; KeiyaA/XL Recordings
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.
Nathy Peluso, “A Caballo”
Nathy Peluso brings salsa music into a pop setting with this vivid portrait-of-a-song that sculpts out an irreverant, man-eating woman who smells like cigarettes and gallops through town on a horse. —Steffanee Wang
KiiiKiii, “To Me From Me”
If you’ve never considered the tie-in soundtrack to a fantasy webcomic, consider it now. “To Me From Me” is the sort of melancholic, melodic earworm that slips between bus rides and grocery runs — those idle moments in need of something sweet. —Hajin Yoo
Wale, “City on Fire (feat. Odeal)”
When Wale and Odeal previewed this track at a club, Twitter’s yearners went crazy. Wale’s been honest as hell online recently and he pours that same transparency into these heartbroken, blunt lyrics. “The spark we once had is headed to your section,” he sings, pointing his pen at a past lover. A verse from Odeal, the lover boy co-signed by Justin Bieber and dubbed “the male Tems,” only cranks the addictiveness higher. —Kylah Williams
KeiyaA, “k.i.s.s.”
If you didn’t have a video vixen alter ego before, keiyaA will summon her with this chopped-up, Jadakiss-sampling, self-produced track. Desire drips through a flute line that flirts with her sultry vocals. —KW
INJI, “Everything Is Never Enough”
INJI’s “Everything Is Never Enough” is an anthem of utter and opulent self-indulgence as she chants about buying more and more over a gleaming dance beat that sounds like partying at 1 Oak. —SW
Young Marco, Mula B, “Ik Kijk Soms Naar Jou (Young Marco Remix)”
Dutch rapper Mula B released his heartbreak track “Ik Kijk Soms Naar Jou” (“I sometimes look at you”) two years ago. Now, producer Young Marco has put a glorious techno spin to its broken yearning, creating a moment that I’d gladly cry to on the dance floor. —SW
Gilbeto Gil, Ana Frango Eletrico, “Extra II (O Rock do segurança)”
Once upon a time, bossa nova legend Gilberto Gil went synth-pop with his 1984 album Raça Humana. Forty years later, the track “Extra II (O Rock do Segurança)” returns with a jazzy makeover courtesy of fellow Brazilian singer Ana Frango Elétrico. The lyrics take on a somber tone in their crooning interpretation: “I’m a disgraced figure, an extraordinary find.” —HY
hether, “Falling for the Feeling”
Having an out-of-body, jazz high wasn’t on my bucket list today, but I’m enjoying every second. Paul Castelluzzo’s debut album follows contributions to projects with Clairo, Kali Uchis, Anderson .Paak, and more. He floats through this song delivering blissful recall, when you relive all the highs and none of the lows. —KW
