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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.
Summer Walker, “How Sway” (feat. SAILORR)
Tatting your boo’s name is one way to prove it’s real, but on her new lust-drunk R&B track, Summer Walker pitches a sexier idea: engraving their name in pink glitter on your blick instead. The Finally Over It artist slips into a SAILORR-like flow, tapping the 26-year-old Vietnamese-American singer for a two-minute love rush that’s already stuck on repeat. —Kylah Williams
Dominic Fike, “White Keys”
After landing in Los Angeles for this year’s Camp Flog Gnaw, I opened my phone to see it’d been postponed — and I may not have survived the crash out at LAX if this song wasn’t bumping in my headphones. Dominic Fike’s “White Keys” is the track I’d been telepathically begging him to drop for years. Breezy, hopeful, and unmistakably at home with Fike, it has me 30,000 feet in the air awaiting what he does next. —KW
Amore, “Peléame!!!”
Amore, which means “love” in Italian, is a fitting stage name for Spanish singer María Moreno Martínez because her songs sound like cupid incarnate. “Peléame!!!'” includes the lyrics “fight me, light me up!” which could potentially read as problematic, except it’s sung with such blind lust and adoration that it feels wholly romantic. —Steffanee Wang
elmjack & Dende, “get it how u live”
This track sounds like 2018 in the best way. The hazy guitar is reminiscent of the bedroom pop that colored my halcyon college days; the soft melange of indie and R&B carries me to the summer of my junior year. But the lyrics snap me back to the now: “the sky is baby blue even when the sky is gray/ you gotta get it how you live, cause everyday’s a gift.” A helpful reminder as I try to make the most of yet another drab day. —Hajin Yoo
The Flints, Night Tapes, “Supernatural Feelings”
On The Flints’ “Supernatural Feelings,” a heavenly voice stutters over a drum and bass beat, like a spaceship revving up before shooting off into infinity; I’m not sure if I’m listening to Saturn’s shimmering rings or a warehouse rave from the 90’s. Either way, I’m just happy I get to hear it. —Hajin Yoo
Oxis, “guili”
A guili is a type of drummer fish commonly found in the Pacific and it doesn’t seem to have any connection to Oxis’s delirious-about-love song of the same name. Fish are sorta the L.A.-based singer’s schtick, and I’m always happy to learn a little bit more about our oceans when I tune into her equally vast sonic world. —SW
Gabriel Jacoby, “bootleg” (feat. Tom. G)
As a New Yorker, bragging about where you’re from comes with the territory. And don’t get me wrong, I never hesitate to flex N.Y.C pride — but Gabriel Jacoby’s Tampa, krank-infused funky R&B makes me wanna shake my ass in the 813. He jooks and grooves across this track, tapping Tampa OG Tom G to remind us that he knows exactly who he is. —KW
The Deep, “KPOP B!TCH”
I’ve been keeping tabs on South Korean artist The Deep since 2023 when she released her sickening house track “BAPPI.” Her ascent has been slow but steady and her latest addictive release, the boldly titled “KPOP B!TCH,” gets a production assist from Frost Children. —SW
Kenny Mason, “Burn It Up”
The big pup is back with a three-track EP. Spitting across rap and rock beats, the Atlanta rapper Kenny Mason barks about his come up with confidence. He sings on the hook with guitar riffs and pounding drums, building a badass track thats way too short for its own good. —KW
