Hey, hi, and hello, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, Internet's busiest music nerd. I hope you're doing well. Weekly Track Roundup. Yep, basically going to talk about a bunch of songs that have dropped over the past week, and whether or not I loved them or hated them or felt somewhere in between. That's the point of this video. That's what we're going to do.

All right, the worst tracks of the week.

They are as follows. We have a handful of those. Bam.

Not really feeling the new Turnstile song "Never Enough", unfortunately. While I do think the band on their last LP, which I loved, brought a very interesting and dreamy, somewhat accessible, is what I want to say, possible twist on a hardcore sound. This new song over here, "Never Enough", just feels like some dream pop alt rock fusion. It's like if Foo Fighters were writing me a song to go nappy time. I'm not really into things going quite this light and easygoing. I'm hoping that following singles or deeper cuts on this forthcoming album that they have on the way go a little bit harder. Again, I do think the band has a bit of a calling card right now for a dreamy or more easygoing sound when it comes to left field and punk-adjacent rock music. But to me, this just came off pretty bland and disappointing.

We also have MARINA, who has come through with a new track, "CUNTISSIMO", is what I'm going to call it. It's just trying too hard to sound different and weird, and it just comes off as annoying in the process.

All right, we also have Lana Del Rey, "Henry Come On", new single from her. Unfortunately, I feel like this sounds like a ballad that she wrote over 10 years ago with a very uninteresting vocals, very stereotypical chord changes and melodies for her. This just feels uninspired at this point. Not really sure where this is going, given how much of a high point musically and songwriting-wise her last record was. This just feels like a downgrade to an older version of herself that isn't quite as interesting, in my view.

We also have Green Day with a deluxe track off of their Saviors record, "Smash It Like Belushi", and it's just some very annoying pop punk, and I will leave it there.

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

You might like them more than me. They are as follows.

We have a new one from yeule over here. Brand new single from them is "Evangelic Girl is a Gun", and it's a bit of fuzzy electropop. I mean, not a super distinct sound or anything like that, but there is a decent song structure to it, and it certainly felt more complete and, I guess, more put-together than the last couple of singles, so we can at least give it that.

We have also over here, Method Man, Wu-Tang Clan, Mathematics all coming together on this multi-build track, "Warriors Two, Cooley High" with Benny the Butcher. It feels more like just like a Benny-Method Man track with a pretty decent beat on it. It's okay. Classic boom bap vibes on it, though not like a super strong chorus or anything like that. But Method Man and Benny do certainly have a chemistry. There is that.

We have also Tennis, who apparently are, after this record, calling it quits. Who knows if, musically, they have other plans. But I guess as the duo known as Tennis, things may, in fact, be done. We do have a single over here titled "12 Blown Tires". A bit of a dreamy indie sound with some very interesting lyrics. I mean, not my favorite thing in the world, but for those big fans of that type of sound, and Tennis, specifically, the band is coming to an end. You may want to just take note of that.

We also have Sheck Wes, who is back with a new track, "ILMB", featuring Travis Scott. Sheck Wes is just going on and on and on about what he loves about his partner on this track. Seems like a very cool, generous person, but they don't see love the same. I mean, his delivery, I think, could use some work, and Travis doesn't exactly save the song or anything like that. But Sheck Wes continues to be a quirky guy, we can say not as much.

Lido Pimienta, who has a new record on the way that I'm very much looking forward to. "Mango" is the teaser track off the record. I wish it was fleshed out more as a song or built up into something other than what it is, but I suppose as an interlude, as a passage, as a motif, it is an interesting listen. It's got some droney, rustic instrumentation in the background, and Lido just vocally killing it over that with these really interesting tonal jumps in her voice, very reedy tone to her voice that I think is quite great. It's almost like she's singing like a bagpipe set. It's really quite intense and, again, standout performance. So I'm really liking the vocals on this one. I just wish, again, it built up into more of a song, but who knows how this track is going to fit into the overall rubric of a Lido album. We will just have to wait and see.

All right, we have HARDY, who has come through the new track titled called "Favorite Country Song". Now, HARDY, whose work in the past I've not really been a big fan of. I thought this track over here had an interesting little twist, "Favorite Country Song". His favorite country song is not really a song at all. It's a bunch of sounds that he associates with experiences around country living. It may have a mainstream country production instrumental palate that I'm not the craziest about, but songwriting-wise, I thought it was cute track and certainly more heartfelt than some of the stuff he's put out as of late, where I think he's trying too hard to sound stereotypically country or just sound really cool or badass on these really bad metal country fusions. Again, this track felt relatable and quite cool.

All right, we have Ghost over here. "Lachryma" is the name of their new single, and I feel like, along with the last track, it has its highs, it has its lows. Very interesting introduction on the song, a very Ride the Lightning-era Metallica, with the riffs and the epic atmosphere and so on and so forth. But once it gets going, I feel like it comes across a lesser version of a track that could have been on that record they wrote about the Black Death that I thought was really good. But again, a lesser version of something off of that. I don't know. If you're looking for some heavy metal that is quite tuneful and a little spooky, you could give this a listen. But I think Ghost has put out better stuff.

Amine is coming through with a brand new record, 13 Months of Sunshine is the title of the album. "Arc de Triomphe" is the name of this newest track from it. And he's continuing to dabble in more dance beats and that thing, rapping over just groovier instrumentals, which I think it's fine. I think it's cool. Some of the bars, though, I don't think were all that memorable or maybe all that flattering, maybe featuring some humor that's maybe warranting a bit of an eye roll. But still, with that being said, cute track all around and really cool streets, a tribute going on here with the sampling and the instrumental as well. Cool to be putting on fans to a UK hip hop classic with this one. If they're willing to actually take the time to dig into the makings of this song, as it were.

All right, best tracks of the week.

We have a handful of those. They are as follows.

We have this new one over here off of a brand new EP from a band named Touchdown Jesus. "I Love My Wife" is the name of the track. And if you're looking for some wild, crazy, progressive art punk, I would say, give this track a listen. The instrumentation is wild. The vocal performance is great. The song is hilarious on some level, I would say, and just killer band chemistry all around. I gotta dig more into this entire EP, but if the band name, Touchdown Jesus, is not enough for you to be like, Oh, I want to listen to that band. Take it from me. Pretty sick track over here.

We also have a new one from Moor Mother and Sumac, another teaser track from their forthcoming collaboration. "Scene 4" is the name of this latest one. And like with the last track, you continue to have these really intense spoken word passages that are leveling a lot of social commentary against the current society and hierarchy and political paradigms that we live in. And just beyond that, setting the tone perfectly, you have Sumac's just booming heavy thunderous riffs. And it's simple, it's straightforward in terms of what it's made of and what it's saying what it's doing, but it's just a really good team up. It's just a good match in terms of the content Moor Mother is bringing vocally, and then what Sumac is bringing musically, and it just freaking works. Moor Mother has done a lot of collaborations over the years with a myriad of different artists, and some, for me personally, have worked, some haven't. But Moor Mother's voice just over this type of metal riffage, just in my head anyway, makes sense. So I don't know. Just been enjoying the material from this forthcoming album so far and hoping to enjoy the rest of it once it is out.

We have also Stereolab. Legends, Stereolab. Electronic, indie, left field, rock legends Stereolab are actually going to be dropping their first proper album of brand new studio material, very soon, first one in over a decade, "Aerial Troubles" is the first single it. And like usual, it's creative, it's well played, it's quirky, it's colorful, and features a bunch of different genres melded together in a very interesting way. That just makes it all difficult to place, honestly. The band continues to defy expectations and make it hard to exactly define what it is they do specifically, as they're never dealing in just simply one or two styles of music. It's coming from all over the place. It's what makes Stereolab, Stereolab. It could be a bit of a jam, it could be a jazzy thing, it could be an electronic thing. You never really know. It could be a pop thing, it could be an experimental exploration. Again, it's Stereolab. It's that classic Stereolab keep you guessing magic. I don't know. Really loving hearing it again in another iteration on this latest single, and I'll say that.

All right, moving on from there. Pulp, "Spike Island", legendary band Pulp, back with a new single over here, new album on the way. And this one's sounding quite glammy, very dramatic lead vocals as well, which I mean is typical for the band. And yeah, just liking the vibe of this track all around. Just feels like they've still very much got it in more ways than one.

And then following that, we have also Deerhoof teaming up with the one and only Saul Williams, who are dropping this track "Under Rats" from the forthcoming Deerhoof album. And Saul could not have been a better collaborator on this track, in my opinion. As far as the riffs and Satomi's vocals, it is classic Deerhoff all around, and Saul's killer poetry and rap style. It just works really well in this experimental rock context.

We also have Blu, who is hitting us with a new single from his forthcoming album, and this one features Sene as well Chester Watson. "Simple" is the name of the track. If you're looking for some very catchy and very meditative jazz rap vibes with a lot of contemplative lyrics, you are going to want to listen to this one.

A couple more.

We also have Billy Woods hitting us with this new track, "BLK ZMBY" featuring Steel Tipped Dove. Lyrically, I'm liking this one a lot. It seems like he's doing what he can to paint a picture of this current world that we're living in, where people are just mindless and and zombified and not really operating the world with much thought or consciousness, which, again, I thought was pretty intriguing.

And finally, A$AP Ferg, teaming up with Awich as well as RZA on this new track over here, "Butcher Shop", with absolutely killer production that Ferg just honestly sounds amazing on top of. Yeah, I really love what RZA brought to this. And these two on this track, lyrically, are just like a match made in heaven. I really couldn't ask for a better team up on a RZA beat, honestly.

All right. Well, enjoying all that.

Weekly Track Roundup done in the can.

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