Hey, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, internet's busiest music nerd. It's time for a Weekly Track Roundup, where I go over a bunch of songs that have dropped over the past week or so. I tell you, whether I loved them, hated them, or fell somewhere in between. They're all going to be linked down below. So you check them out for yourself. God, that's the point of this segment. Why do I need to explain it every time? What is wrong with you?

Worst Tracks of the Week. Let's get into it. We have a full smorgasbord of awful tracks this week. Quite a few came out, actually. It's a little heavy weighted on the bad track side this week.

Kicking it off with ZAYNE, who is still trying to convince us that he's successfully going to make a bit of a singer-songwriter run here with his second single, where his vocals sound painfully goofy, and I just absolutely cannot stand them. "Alienated" is the name of the track, and I just have a feeling I'm going to pass on this album cycle, possibly.

We also have this new one from Thursday, who are back with this, I don't know, emo, prog rock, butt rock, hybrid with this new track "Application for Release from the Dream." And yeah, the vocals are obnoxious. It's just very, I would say, tedious, way too long of a listen. Not really feeling it, unfortunately.

We have a new one also, "Espresso" from Sabrina Carpenter, which is handily one of the stiffest pop songs I've heard in a while, especially on the vocal end, where things are sounding quite awkward, I would say, quite awkward. Moving on from there.

Next, we have Rick Ross, who has thrown his hat into the whole Drake diss beef thing. He's gone rogue, done his own separate diss track where he's calling Drake out as being white. It's weird. It's weird. It's definitely odd, and not really amounting to much of anything, though. To his credit, he has gotten BBL Drake trending, so there is that.

We have Mr. Omar Apollo, who has come through with a new track, "Spite," which, of course, is a very underwhelming and Frank Ocean-coated, per usual. Just not really much to say about it outside of that.

We have a new one also from Ken Carson, who is sounding also very mid, per usual, with some ridiculous bars, one about the wrists. I mean, his flow is a bit more on point than it used to be, but the bars are still trash. The songwriting is still trash, and it's just about the most average opium-style instrumental that you're going to get out of that camp today. Also, Megan Trehner and Jimmy Fallon doing a song for a Netflix thing about pop tarts involving freaking Jerry Seinfeld and What's Her Face? This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. I am living in hell right now.

Let's move on to the tracks I was on the fence with. I wasn't crazy about them, but you might like them more than me. They are as follows.

We have a new one from Tinashe, which I wish I liked this single more. Don't get me wrong, there are parts of it that I identify with. "Who's going to match my freak?" But with that being said, I feel like the chorus and the verses just sound too separate from each other. There's not a good cohesive flow between the both of them. And on top of it, it's not her most harmonious, melodically gratifying song or lyrically detailed song either. I mean, those little earworms of, "I'm the nothing girl." I mean, they go, but I just wish there was more to the song than that. It's maybe just a bit too skeletal, in my opinion. But I am still excited for this second installment of Baby Angel that she has on the way.

Moving on from there, Ringo Starr with the throwback sexy boy pick off of his forthcoming EP, Crooked Boy. He's got a pretty average, almost oasis-type throwback rock tune as a teaser on this new EP titled "February Sky."

It's not too bad. It's passable. It's respectable.

High On Fire has come through with a new track, "Cometh the Storm," with some amazing riffs. Incredible riffage all over this track. It's just a shame that the vocals are pretty underwhelming, just way too buried in the mix. It sounds like they're recorded badly, too. Just seems like the song has everything going for it outside of the vocals. Usually, the vocals on High On Fire records are pretty solid, so that's a bit of a shock there.

dance-pop drops the weakest of the three singles for her upcoming album. It's still a solid dance-pop song, but I feel like she's doing a bit of a second dip back into the disco-tinged Barbie soundtrack well here with something a bit darker, a bit more mysterious. I like the lyrics. I like the narrative of the track, but I just feel like instrumentally, melodically, the past two singles were a lot more standout.

Death From Above 1979. '79, has seen fit to drop a noisier, rougher, rarer version of "Going Steady XX" for this forthcoming project and celebration for the 20-year anniversary of their breakout, influential, incredible debut album. There's nothing really about it that I would prefer over the original track. But if you want to hear something that's punkier or noisier in terms of a version of going steady, give it a spin.

Next, Chloë. Chloë Bailey has, I guess, suddenly decided to go into a bit of a singer-songwriter, guitar mode direction on this new track, "Boy Bye." Some of the swears in the lyrics are funny, and definitely got a chuckle out of me, but I still feel like she's just struggling to find her sound, find her direction, find her something. She's just struggling and floundering a bit, trying a bit of everything, and not really committing to anything that sounds true to her and specific to her. I'm just hoping that that happens at some point in the near future, because I feel like she's got too much talent to be continuing to put out music music that's just okay.

1999 Write The Future have a new one out featuring none other than Jean Dawson, who has come through with a little bit of a spacy dark indie rock hip hop hybrid track on this "fIT chECK fREEsTYle" song. It's not the most cohesive track I've ever heard, but it is definitely specific to Jean's sound, and it's an interesting crossover regardless.

All right, best tracks of the week. We have a handful of those. Actually, quite a few of those. I lied. I lied. Quite a few best tracks of the week. Pay attention because there are some bangers in this list. They are as follows.

A new one from Your Old Droog, Method Man, Denzel Curry, teaming up on a Madlib beat. And believe it or not, Your Old Droog, I think, comes through with the most clever bars of the three. It's really impressive. And Madlib did this thing on the production as well, liking this one a lot. "DBZ" is the title of it.

WILLOW. Willow Smith, new album on the way. As you guys may remember, I really enjoyed the previous single she dropped from this forthcoming album, which is titled Empathogen. Not crazy about the title, but the song "b i g f e e l i n g s," whose lyrics I think could have been a bit more varied. It is, again, sitting very firmly in that awesome '90s piano, rock, jazz lane, and it's very moody, it's very intense. Great drums, great piano passages, killer performance all around. Loving the vocals to the harmonies, especially, are fantastic on this track.

The Lemon Twigs come through with another track from their forthcoming LP, How Can I Love Her More? It is very Brian Wilson-coated, very big Beach Boys vibes coming off of this song, but they spin it into their own tune. It's cute, it's endearing, it's fun. I support it.

Thou, Thou, Thou. If you love it heavy, if you love it hard, if you love it harsh, you're going to love it thou, who have this new project umbilical on the way. And the song I am pushing you guys to is "I Feel Nothing When You Cry." It is absolutely crushing. It is noisy. The riffs are hard. They are heavy. The vocals are quite nasty as well. Just liking the band's vibe and sound overall on this one just after all these years. And that has been around for a minute. They sound just as ferocious as they did back in the day.

Also liking this track I found off of a band camp recently, Salami Rose, Joe Louis & Flanafi, "American Moss" is the name of it. It's like this experimental electronic art pop hybrid-type tune with some insane keys and drums, just very busy, very intricate, very intense. I'm hoping to dig more into it in the near future before the month is out. So give it a try before I get to sample the entire thing for sure.

Our favorite experimental, quirked-up, pop, holish individuals. Of course, that would be Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda. I have this new computer EP out, and I just want to point you guys to the track "Kup warzywa." These guys are definitely writing some and producing some very out-there and strange, tongue-in-cheek experimental, skilled, but also very consciously silly pop hybrids that are very creative, to say the least. Lots of charisma, lots of zaniness to be had on tracks. And again, this track is a part of a whole EP. So if you like what you hear, there's more where it came from.

All right, Drake, as you guys may remember, because it just literally happened, has come through with a response, his "Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)" response to Kendrick Lamar and Metro and everybody who's been going at him. More details, more of a detailed review to follow for this diss track, for this response, for this retort.

But what I will say off the bat is that I feel like there are a lot of solid bars on this response, solid bars on the response, and it is nowhere near as disappointing as the seven-minute drill was. Again, more thoughts to follow when I dig into it further and have more to say, but you guys can rest assured that I'm digging Drizzy's effort here. He was not asleep at the wheel, I will say that. Ghostwriters or not.

Alright, we have a new one over here from none other than Caribou, who has come through with a banger of a track. "Honey." Great drops, great builds, driving dance beats. Continues to be one of the best electronic music producers Canada has ever given us, that is for sure. Hopefully, just as many great songs coming on a new record from Caribou very soon.

All right, we have Camera Obscura, who have come through with a third single from their forthcoming album. They are three for three on the singles. This new one isbvery twee, very light, very cute, very pretty. "Liberty Print" is the song. If you like your indie pop vibes to be very blissful, very feel good, give this one a listen.

A couple more. We have Blu, who has a new project out right now and this song, "I'm G (OMG)," is a part of that. It goes hard as hell. Great refrain, crazy production. Insane synth layers on this one as well. Liking it a lot.

Also, shout out to Beth Gibbons of Portishead fame, who has a new solo album on the way. Two for two on the singles as this new song is breathtaking. It is gorgeous. Really loving what she's doing with the strings and string work on this forthcoming album so far with the teasers. "Reaching Out" is the name of this cut.

And finally, Baby Rose. Singer Baby Rose has teamed up BADBADNOTGOOD for a new EP of tracks that, from what I'm hearing so far, have a very big soul flavor to them. Just great vocal performances and awesome tasteful vintage backing instrumentation from BBNG on these tracks. Just linked a song from the EP to you guys down below, so you check it out for yourselves. Just get you guys gatewayed into the EP because the whole thing is out now. It's breathtaking. It is gorgeous. It is just a beautiful throwback soul with some modern punch to it and just great vocal performance. It's great songwriting all around.

And I think that is going to be it for the Weekly Track Roundup, everybody. Thank you very much for reading and listening. You're the best. Love you. Hope you're well. Yeah, that's going to be it. More reviews this week.

Anthony Fantana, Weekly Tracks, forever.