Okay. All right, all right, all right, all right. Weekly track roundup. My feelings, my thoughts, my opinions, my emotions on a bunch of tracks that have dropped over the past week or so. That's what this video is. Hi, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, Internet's busiest music nerd. Okay.

We're into the worst tracks of the week.

We're starting with, of course, none other than Lil Yachty, who has hit us with "No Vegetables" over here. Got to say, the Yachty "Broccoli" vegetables era much better than whatever he is doing in this era, which is just doing a generic rage tune with the distorted instrumental and everything. I mean, it seems like everybody is trying to hop on this trend to stay relevant, and some people do it better than others. Yachty, in my opinion, does not. All right, moving on.

We have Ice Spice, who is hitting us with a track she has contributed to the forthcoming Spongebob movie. And while I will say the music video, the media tie-ins are very fun and very cute. It's cool. I appreciate it. Total package. It's fine, but as a song by itself, I'm not putting on "Big Guy". I'll be real. I'll be honest, Chief. I'm not putting on "Big Guy". This one's annoying.

Also feeling like the Oliver Tree track, "Joyride", is a bit obnoxious as well for its desperate, I guess, situationship angle, its wild break beats, its strange, shouty vocals. I would have hoped that Oliver Tree would have progressed past something like this at this point, but it feels almost like he's regressing since his last record in a way. But I don't know. What do I know? Nothing, according to Oliver tree.

Oh, and NF teaming up with, of course, Machine Gun Kelly on the track "Who I Was", which is out now from his new EP. If you wanted to hear a bunch of whiny, melodramatic rap music that thinks it's, I guess, more urgent than it actually is, you could give this a listen, I guess.

We have a lot of worst tracks. Why do we have so many worst tracks this week?

Miley Cyrus's "Dream as One". Yeah, this song is terrible. However, it's not really a reflection on Miley, in my opinion. It's just like generic Avatar movie soundtrack slop. It's just blockbuster film soundtrack slop. Lyrics about how we're diamonds and stuff like that. Just like literally every dramatic movie ballad cliché you've heard in your life because when movies have huge budgets like these, they're like, Hey, we need to pay a bunch of rich, famous, successful musicians to do the soundtrack. And they're just showing up for the check. They're not putting much passion or thought into it. They're just trying to fill in the blanks and just do what they need to do to get out of there. And that's essentially what Miley is doing here. So good on her. Get the bag. Her newest record, her last record was great.

Okay, anyway. Meghan Trainor, whose forthcoming album, Toy With Me, has a teaser from it titled "Still Don't Care". I actually made an assessment of this track before having seen this cover. It just sounds like annoying music from the last Barbie soundtrack. And not to say the Barbie soundtrack was annoying. It sounds like an annoying version of the music from that soundtrack. And now I'm seeing the cover here and I'm like, Oh, she's doing purposefully a Barbie thing. So basically, Meghan Trainor was inspired by the Barbie soundtrack and decided to make music that wasn't even good enough for it. Sad, unfortunate. But I guess she still doesn't care, so that's fine.

All right. And Megadeth. Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy. Whoa. Pretty badass. Can I show this? Can I show this? Can I display this without getting demonetized? The most badass piece of single art of all time. The song itself... how old is Dave Mustaine at this point? Why does he still write lyrics like he's an antisocial 14-year-old? I don't care if you die. I'm Dave Mustaine. I mean, the guitars and drums sound cool for sure. You know? But you would think or you would hope at this point that Dave's pen would have gained maybe a little bit of nuance since the band's heyday, but I guess not. Whatever. I don't care. Just like the song says.

And we also have Ken Carson over here who's dishing out a really obnoxious track titled "Margiela". And yeah, he's cannot flow like this on the song. It's terrible. It's awful. We're just going to move on to...

The tracks I was meh about.

Not crazy about, but they're not bad either. You might like them more than me. They are as follows.

We are starting with this new Robyn track, "Dopamine". Decent piece of electropop, not blowing my mind or anything like that, but it's got some good grooves to it. Solid chorus as well. Like, is it going above and beyond? Her best song ever? That thing? No, it's not quite in that ballpark, but it's fine. It's enjoyable. Again, decent electropop.

We have Poppy who is just pretty much going full unadulterated djent pop metal over here with "Bruised Sky", and it's all right. Her vocals definitely fit the vibe, fit the style. I wish the guitars and the production itself were more interesting, but honestly, I feel like it makes sense for Poppy to continue in this direction because there aren't a lot of people who have the appeal that she does, specifically making this music. So it makes sense. It makes sense, even if I'm not crazy about it myself.

We also have Big K.R.I.T., hitting us with the mileage track over here, which is a shorty for him. But it's been a while since he's come through with a single. It's just a straight up track you put on when you're driving, one for the car, which he's been known to make some great car bangers in the past. I wouldn't say this is one of the biggest or most hard hitting or anything like that, but it's a nice chill song to ride to, you could say that.

We have Dry Cleaning hitting us with "Cruise Ship Designer", which is a bit of a zany post-punky talk-rock track, not quite as lengthy or as much of an odyssey as their last single. This one has some more absurd lyrics in it, some off-kilter grooves. To be honest, it is not quite as enjoyable. It's absurd to the point where it does get a little bit grating, but I still do like the fact that the band is experimenting a bit and doing some weird stuff.

And we also have Bill Callahan, My Days of 58, forthcoming album, our first taste of It comes in the form of "The Man I'm Supposed to Be", which I think is a solid tune at its core, but the production is just so lacking. And I know Bill, historically, is, going back to the days of Smog... he's a lofi guy. But the sax is so faint and so in the background, you could barely hear it over the drums. And I mean, the drums, you could barely hear themselves. So I think there's some potential here lost in the fact the instrumentation is as muddy as it is, frankly. But Bill's voice still sounds good. That's for sure.

We've also got 2hollis over here, hitting us with "Dogs". Brand new track from 2hollis. And look, I'll say this, while I do think a lot of the edits on this track are pretty sick and pretty cool, I do like the details and the edits and the rhythmic switchups and and so on and so forth. Beyond that, this nonchalant flow and just so saturated, fried production style, it's just so lacking in detail and nuance and color, and it's getting to the point where I'm just sick of it and it's losing its flavor. It's like an old piece of bubble gum that you've been chewing and chewing and chewing and chewing, and the novelty has been lost on it. And that's not to say that I'm giving up on or that I dislike production that's super loud and compressed and distorted in general. I just feel like there are ways of going about making it that pose to the audience a little bit more in terms of color and layers. I feel like 2hollis just doesn't quite gravitate toward production that is loud but also detailed. It just sounds loud, sounds fried, sounds a little monochrome to my ears. It's lacking in color gradient, I guess you could say, color in general. But again, a lot of the edits and grooves are certainly cool. I just wish there was more to it or that it didn't sound so stale after a minute or so of having heard it.

Moving on from there.

Best tracks of the week.

They are as follows.

We have a new crossover from Billy Woods. Woods himself and August Fanon, and Aesop Rock featuring on the track as well. You got two of the best living lyricists out there today on a very moody, depressive instrumental, and it very much works. A very haunting track for sure.

We also have Moses Sumney, apparently making his thespian debut over here because he was a part of a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and we're getting his voice on a recording of "Oh, Mistress Mine" in relation to the whole production, which is pretty cool. And yeah, It's a beautiful track with some wonderful Moses Sumney vocals on it. Check it out, especially for you theater nerds.

Moving on from there. Mandy, Indiana, experimental rock group, has a new album on the way. Our first taste of their forthcoming album is the song "Magazine", and it is an eerie, haunting, freaky, industrial, noisy, and I'll say slightly harrowing, listen. And liking the intensity that the band brings together on this track for sure.

Coming through also Magdalena Bay, treating us to two more new songs on a brand new single. "This is The World (I Made It For You)", which is my favorite of the two, which has a cool, funky, almost like little Cardigans vibe. There's some accordion in the mix. The bass line is cool. A bit of a Motown feel between the bass and the drums. Mica's vocals are killer, and it also has a nice day as a track backing it up. Two very great super solid, impressive tracks, once again, from Magdalena Bay. They're really killing it with these recent singles. And yeah, it's just amazing to see the consistency and the progression from the duo as they continue to try out some new sounds. Seems like they're road testing some stuff here and there that's different instrumental palettes, more acoustic here and there, but still, coming out with amazing songs in the process. Seems like even as they are switching things up, the fans are continuing to be pleased. So awesome stuff, once again, from Mag Bay.

We have a Jean Dawson, who has come through with a deluxe version, revamped version of his latest record that has a bunch of new songs on the back which he has been teasing with some singles here and there. This one over here, "Sin Sangre", is one in Spanish, and it's a cool little throwback rock number with some spacy beautiful vocals on it that I like quite a bit. Awesome of Jean to expand the new record with some additional material.

We also have De La Soul, second taste of their forthcoming album. We have Q-Tip, we have Yummy Bingham in the mix on this one. It is summery, it is fun, it is quite, I'll say, feel good of a track. Maybe it's not the time of year for it, but it's still a fantastic track, and a rest in peace to Trugoy the Dove. This will obviously be De la Soul's first record they will be releasing without him. So how that's going to... how his loss is going to shape the dynamics, and obviously, some of the themes of this record should most definitely be interesting for sure.

All right, we have also Charli XCX, who in the past week has hit us with a few new tracks that I guess are going to be connected to her soundtrack work for this upcoming Wuthering Heights film adaptation, one of which features John Cale, and is my favorite of the two tracks. It's titled "House". It is super heavy, it's abrasive, it is absolutely frightening, honestly, in a lot of ways. John Cale's narrations are quite dramatic. Charli's vocals are super distorted, have this crazy vocal fry on them. It's just so brutal and it's terrifying a little bit. And the second of the two tracks, "Chains of Love", is almost like a song that you would hear from one of her first couple of records that had maybe more of an '80s pop sheen on them. It's a cute anthemic ballad. It's fine for what it is, not blowing me away or anything like that, not going as hard as anything like on Brat, but if you're looking for a dramatic ballad, that would certainly fit a film soundtrack, this one is it.

And lastly over here, a shout out to none other than, once again, Oneohtrix Point Never, who continues to dish out teasers from this forthcoming Tranquilizer album. This one, "D.I.S.", is quite full of interesting collages of sounds. It's just a very fun, colorful, fun for me anyway, abstract electronic piece that really stimulates the old noggin. And yeah, I'm excited to see how all of these, I would say so far with all the different tracks, contrasting pieces will come together on this forthcoming album for sure.

All right, that is going to be it for the Weekly Track Roundup, everybody. Thank you very much for watching.

Anthony Fantano, Weekly Tracks. Forever.