Hey, hi, and hello, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, Internet's busiest music nerd. Hope you're doing well. It's time for the Weekly Track Roundup. My thoughts, my feelings, my personal opinions on a bunch of tracks that have dropped this past week. That is the point of the Weekly Track Roundup. That is what we do in it. And let's just straight into the...

Worst tracks of the week.

Shall we? They are as follows.

The new Zach Bryan single, featuring Kings of Leon, a whole dynasty with Zach on this track. And it's this just absolutely bland and drab country rock tune with little to no soul in it. Really this new string of Zach's singles, since he's announced that he was quitting, but I guess not, have been more or less disappointing. I just wonder what is going to need to happen to really light a fire under Zach's ass creatively and make his music interesting again, but it just is what it is. "Bowery" is the name of the track.

We also have this new one from Glass Animals. I've never really been a Glass Animals boy. This track, "Vampire Bat", just further confirms why. Just very bland cut overall. Not a whole lot of anything interesting going on here.

And even more boring, shockingly, despite 3OH!3 having a history of making very eccentric and very zany, very danceable, over-the-top music, this new single from them, "Slushy", is about as uninspired as it gets from them, I fear.

The tracks I was meh on, on the fence with.

Not super crazy about, you might like them more than me. They are as follows.

This one that came out the prior week from YG with Leon Thomas in the mix, "Lovers or Friends". It's a little more slick and romantic and. Just making a big deal of tense relationship dynamics dynamics. I just find it narratively to not be quite as interesting as some of YG's other singles that have dropped recently. But still, I think aesthetically, there's a lot of consistency among these new tracks, and they more or less should sound fine on his forthcoming record.

We also have this new one from The Voidz over here, "Russian Coney Island" is the name of the song. And despite this track not really doing it for me all that much, it certainly sounds better and more well put together and less demo quality than any number of songs from the last entire The Voidz album. So I mean, at least it's like a step up, and Julian Casablancas's autotuned vocals aren't like so grating that they're torture.

There's also this new one from Big Thief over here, which I mean, is just like a straightforward alt country tune. It's okay. It's fine. "Los Angeles" is the title of it. It's not nearly as rustic or melodic or, I think, vocally as passionate as many songs off of the last big, big fat 90 minute Big Thief album. This just feels like so much more measured in comparison, honestly.

We've also got this new one over here from Silvana Estrada. "Dime" is the name of the track. Estrada really pulls out the strings on this one. It's a solid ballad, but I feel like the strings overtake it at a lot of points, unfortunately.

Also got this new one from Lucy Dacus. She just dropped a brand new single, post-album single release, and it's titled "Bus Back to Richmond". An interesting bit of storytelling, but vocally and instrumentally, it's not a whole lot to write home about.

Laufey, dropping another teaser to her forthcoming LP. Instrumentally, not the strongest showing of all of these teasers so far, but if you're looking for a ballad that brings some very strong Disney Princess vibes, this is going to be the one you are going to want to check out.

We also have Disclosure and Anderson .Paak teaming up on this "No Cap". New track. And it's surely a track that will go down very well at a lot of European raves and discos. It's got a nice danceable, but slightly, I don't know, bro-y vibe to it, I guess you could say. I mean, if they're jamming it in Ibiza, people would be going crazy for it. That's all I'm going to say. All right.

And we have over here also, also, also a new one from Demi Lovato, who is really trying to go super dancy and edgy on this new single over here in a way that has been drawing comparisons to like, BRAT and all that. I see it. I see the parallels. It's fine. It's okay. I don't really know what to say other than that. Okay.

Burial has come through with a brand new track over here. "Comafields". And look, it's an entrancing cut for the majority of it. It's a very lengthy, lengthy run time, though I do think it hits a wall toward the end and ends somewhat inconclusively. Again, some intense highs. Really like how it locks me in for the majority of its run time, but I just don't really think it sticks the landing, which for a song this long, I feel like you need to.

We also have Animal Collective back, once again, with a new track. Another song from the band that feels like a bit of a '60s psych and garage rock throwback. I mean, not doing it so well that it would draw me to this faster than it would to any of the bands that are obviously inspiring this. But still, it is cool and interesting to hear the band taking a more, I guess, organic approach with their instrumentation in this latest chapter of their career.

And we have also the best tracks of the week.

The tracks that really struck me, grabbed my attention. They are as follows.

Bam, Wolf Alice. We have quite a few songs to go through because I'm compiling songs from this week as well as last week because I missed the weekly track roundup last week. Wolf Alice, Wolf Alice. Really feeling "White Horses". Interesting single from them with a lot of linear grooves, slowly intensifying instrumentation. Very good solid refrains as well. I think it's probably my favorite song they have teased toward this new album of theirs with.

Also digging on this new one from Undeath. It's a new single from them. "Enter Patient / Endless Graveyard". It's a nasty, nasty, nasty, filthy bit of death metal with some fantastic riffs, great grooves. It feels like as catchy as a lot of the material on their debut album, which I loved. A

lso digging on some new material from Snooper. Egg punk is back. "Worldwide" is the song. It's zany. It's synthy, it's loud, it's in your face, it's eggy. That's all I'm going to say about it.

All right, we also have Stealing Sheep, this up and coming group that I'm enjoying more and more songs from every single time I run some new material from them. "I Want to Go Back" is the name of the track, the name of their new single. And it's just got a lot of zany vocal layers and everything to it. Great dance beats, very jagged, almost like '80s style sample hits and stuff like that. It's a wild little dance tune, and I'm just loving the eccentric production style and personality this band is bringing to the table. It's balls to the wall.

Also digging on on this track from Sasha Keable, "Act Right", which is also the title of her new EP, which is out now. It's very good smooth R&B. Loving almost the dour tone of the chord progressions on this one. The piano sound great, the vocals are killer, and this is not the only good song on this EP, mind you. So Sasha Keable, Act Right EP, out now. Look it up.

Also digging on some new material from the Osees. Their new record is out now as well. It's some really nasty, gruff, in your face, crazy ass garage punk. That is noisy, that is freakish, that is odd. "Abomination" is the name of the track we have linked down below.

Also digging on this new one over here from Nourished by Time, which is this crazy dance, pop, industrial hip hop combo cut. There's elements of it that feel a little Death Grips, a little Frank Ocean, a little Brockhampton. It's touching down on a lot of different things. Loving the verses on this thing, loving the "baby, baby, baby" refrains. The beat is wild as well. This is creative as fuck. This is creative as fuck. I'm going to say that. This is creative as fuck.

All right, moving on from there. "Rabbit Run", a new soundtrack cut from none other than IDLES that rocks like crazy. It's from the Caught Stealing original soundtrack. I guess they've written other material for it, too, which is pretty cool, nice for them. They most definitely deserve it.

We have Ghostface Killah who's actually delivering upon the long promised Supreme Clientele 2. Okay, crazy. We have a single from it, God damn. And it's a very straightforward boom bap stuff, but it's actually very solid, very good, very entertaining. I could see this being a track that is surrounded by some meatier cuts for sure. "Rap Kingpin" is the name of the song. It's definitely gotten my ears perked up. I'll say that.

Okay, we have a new one over here from Geese, "Trinidad". Yeah, this is my boys Geese. Opening track to their forthcoming album. This is an insane song. This is just an absolutely insane, unhinged, mental illness song. Like the screaming and "there's a bomb in my car" and so on and so forth, and riffs! And the riffs, and the total madness. This is nuts. This is insane. I love this. I love this quite a bit. This is a great start to the new album.

Frost Children. Shout out to them. "What is Forever For". They're really bringing back that MySpace core electro with this track, with this single. Liking it a lot. Liking it quite a bit. I think this is a sound and a style that compliments them so well. They really nail down this vibe so accurately. They really do it so much justice.

Digging as well on this new "Pray to That" track, which is from none other than Fat Dog. Look, in a lot of ways, this just feels like a typical Fat Dog track at this point. You got the dark weirdo vocals. You have the driving dance groove. You have the eerie, freakish, post-punky vibes. But if there's anything about this song that I think separates it from a majority of the band's material up until this point, there's almost like a touch, like a touch of Eurodance vibes on it, which I feel like it brings a lightness to it. It's very funny. It's very entertaining that they were able to work that vibe into a song that is so dark and so accurately fat dog.

All right. Dev Lemons has a new project out. Really enjoying some of the material on that. We have linked to the song "Face" down below because that's a banger.

Also digging on Deftones. Again, they're two for two on the singles. They're two for two on the singles. "Milk of the Madonna". That's the name of the new track. The riffs are insane. Chino's vocals are going crazy. The performance is great all around. The production is heavy. There's not too many slow, boring-ass moments. They're just killing it from front to back, and it sounds killer.

Chappell Roan, "The Subway", new single from her. That's sounding great. There are moments, especially toward the end, that sound like that one Roxette song – "It must have been love, but it's over now!" – like that song. I feel like there's some strong vibe, some strong inspiration coming off that track on this. But still, I like the storytelling. It's heart-wrenching. The vocal performance is fantastic. One of the best vocal performances I think Chappell has laid to tape. Very exciting, very thrilling, passionate ballad, digging it, respecting it.

Also over here, next, Sanguisugabogg, new single from them. And yeah, they're just continuing to kill it on the death metal front. Just nasty, gnarly, disgusting, filthy, gross, decrepit, destitute, desperate, death metal. That just sounds absolutely vile, okay? Just absolutely, positively, offensively vile, and I'm enjoying it and appreciating it. "Rotted Entanglement" is the name of the track.

And finally, shout out to Aesop Rock. "Roadwork Rappin" is the name of his new single, and he's literally rapping about roadwork, and construction vehicles, and traffic. And it's funny, and it's good. It's entertaining. It's wholesome. It's nice. Very cute. Very good. Very cool look. Cool Aesop. I like it. It's very cool. Very cool guy. I appreciate it. Again, entertained. Who else is rapping about roadwork? Who else is doing it? The guy finds inspiration in the most unlikely places, and that's all I can say.

That is going to be it for the Weekly Track Roundup. Thank you for watching. Hopefully, you got some good recommendations.

Anthony Fantano, Weekly Tracks, Forever.