Hi, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, the internet's busiest music nerd in desperate need of a little rest, a little nappy poo. But we're going to go over the weekly tracks first! The songs that stood out to me over this past week, what I thought of them, good or bad. Let's check them out together.

Anyway, we're doing a quick shout-out by way of Austen, who wants to point you guys to this Vanessa Rossetto, The Professional record. Again, this is an Austen recommendation. I'm not familiar with this myself. Austen recommendation. Sounds Italian, honestly. Maybe I'll be into it. Anyways, Austen would still like to shout out this double album from sound collagist Vanessa Rosetto. "Dense and sprawling walls of field recordings that are part surreal tour travelogue and part playful commentary on the making of experimental music. Vanessa's one of the greatest at making walking life sound like a fever dream."

Well, there you go. Quite an endorsement coming by way of Austen.

Worst tracks of the week.

All right. Worst tracks of the week. These are definitely not endorsements at all. Here we go.

This new Ronnie Radke song with Serj Tankian from System of a Down and Corey Taylor from Slipknot in the mix. Jesus Christ. This is terrible. It sounds like "Bohemian Rhapsody" for virgin boys who play too much Call of Duty. That's literally what it sounds like. Literally what it sounds like. Jesus Christ. If I hear this song one more time in my life, 50 years from now, it'll be too soon.

We also have a new one from 2hollis, who I think has come out with one of his worst singles in a minute. This "Sex" song? Whatever the hell this track is like, God, I'm over it. It's like underscores for straight boys. But even that is not honestly an accurate portrayal and inadvertently an insult to underscores. I apologize for my insolence. I'm sorry for that one.

Meh Tracks.

All right. Meh. The tracks I was on the fence with, but still thought they were worth shouting out. They are as follows.

We have a new one from Yeat. The track "MISS MY DOG" featuring Drake from a new Yeat EP he's come out with. There's some OK material on this EP. I mean, it's certainly like a step up from a lot of what he was doing or trying to do on ADL, copying Kanye West left and right. So I mean, this kind of stuff sounds more or less like Yeat going back to his standard vibe, standard aesthetics, but with Drake in the mix a little bit. Sounds like it could have been a leftover from the Drake record For All The Dogs, to be honest, or maybe even like a sister song or something. It's all right. It's fine. It's passable. But it just kind of feels like we've lost Yeat's sense of adventure a little bit with this one, in my view.

We have a Troye Sivan who's back trying to do a party anthem, a party girl anthem in a way. The production's pretty decent, though. I just don't really think compressing your voice to hell, and the spoken-sung thing, is really quite Troy's bag. There's also a cute little interpolation because he's been doing a lot of that lately, even with his last album. And yeah, it's OK. It's fine. You can listen to it.

And we also have a new one from Aesop Rock, who's coming through with a new album with none other than Blockhead very soon, though I found this track "Trouble Trouble" to, I don't know, be a little average for them, be OK. Nothing too mind-blowing. However, I am open to the different lyrical layers of this track warming up to me as I hear the rest of Trouble Mountain and hear everything that he and Blockhead have to offer. But still, a new record is on the way from them. Cool and exciting generally to see them teaming up once more.

Best tracks of the week.

We have the best tracks of the week. They are as follows. Let's go.

First, we are starting with this Slauson Malone number, which, believe it or not, is a freaking Red Hot Chili Peppers cover, but it's the most insane flip on its head, totally from another dimension, Red Hot Chili Peppers cover you could imagine, but still feels very Slauson Malone with the experimental beat music elements and the acoustic guitar passages and the sort of standoffish but still strangely beautiful lead vocals. It's a wonder of a flip. I will say that and leave it there.

We also have one over here from none other than Porter Robinson, who has this new track with Ninajirachi and underscores doing a little remix of "Perfect Pinterest Garden," and it bangs. Of course, I mean, no question, underscores and Ninajirachi are going to come in and spice things up a little bit.

We also have Anderson .Paak, as well as Cordae, who are coming through with a new collab album very soon. Our first taste of it comes in the form of "A Good Day," and it's just a really fun, upbeat track. They're just having a good time on the song. Playful bars, feel-good, soulful instrumental. It's groovy. Just kind of puts a smile on your face. What's so bad about that? I know we live in dark times, but somebody has got to make at least a little bit of fun music, and it seems like these boys are up to the task, and they're doing a pretty good job in my opinion.

We have Meshell Ndegeocello, the legend, coming through with a new album very soon, seemingly built of covers. There have been a few teasers so far. One of the latest is this one with Bill Callahan doing a Bob Dylan version of " With God on Our Side," and it's an incredible version. It's great. It's really kind of stretched out. And meditative, Bill and Michelle's vocals pair up so nicely. And I don't know, it's a little unsettling as well. It's, it's beautiful, but also unsettling too. It's a, again, it's, it's a great version. Fully endorse it.

Also liking this new single from Infinity Knives and Brian Ennal's couple of new songs from them kind of compiled into a single. The one that I wanted to point at is "All the Pretty Girls"; love Brian Ennal and Knives, and of course, very unhinged bars right out of the gate on this one. But that is what Brian does best. Strange instrumental too, and I would expect no less from Infinity Knives. I just feel like these guys play to each other's strengths, so well.

All right. We have a new one over here from an artist. I'm just kind of getting acclimated to Joy Crookes, who has a project on the way. "Painkiller," a song featuring Denzel Curry. It's got a romantic element to it. It's a thoughtful track. It's a moving track. It's a bumping track. It's got almost like a bit of a throwback Fugees vibe to it that I think is done really well, and I think you guys will appreciate it if you give it a listen.

We also have hemlocke springs, who's back after dropping one of the best pop albums of the year, touring nonstop, and now just dropping another single out of the blue, "gloria!" And it's an eighties-flavored banger with some rock flavor, synths, and a totally eccentric chorus bit as well, where she kind of tries on a new vocal delivery, and it goes over really well. Cool. Bopperino. Loving it. Shout out to hemlocke springs. Once again, killing it. Can't stop putting out heat.

We also have Godflesh, who have a new record on the way. And this track over here, "Master and Slave," is an eight-minute-long monster that is heavy, is beefy, is punishing, is harrowing, is everything I would want from a Godflesh song that is eight minutes long. Yes, It's, it's a bit of a time commitment, but I feel like the soul-crushing nature and vibe of the song kind of makes it a worthwhile spin. And the low end on the bass and the drums is just incredible.

Bolis Pupul and Charlotte Adigéry have some new material coming very soon. We are hearing a new single from them, "Googoo Gaga," putting out a bit of a danceable synthy mom banger, and I'm loving it. It's really cool, kind of social commentary, loving the electro throwback style production. It's an awesome progression, like really kind of kicking off subtly with the acapella at the start. And then the beat really starts hitting in the last leg of the track. It's really an odyssey. It's an evolution of a track with, again, some really smart and interesting lyrics.

Liking this Beach House cover that we're getting over here of "April Suzanne." That's beautiful, of course, because you know, what is Beach House if not having beautiful aesthetics through and through? It's dreamy, it's luscious, it's wonderful.

And finally, shout out to this track from the band @. "Bird" is the name of the song. It's the opener to their forthcoming record, which has a few singles out from it so far. And this track had a lot of moving parts to it. Like, there are elements of it that kind of reminded me of Elliot Smith a little bit with the acoustic guitars, but then there are these stacked harmonies that are really interesting that feel almost classically inspired at points. It's got a kind of progressive structure to it as well that felt a little Grizzly Bear-ish. It's a lot of different flavors of indie folk and underground songwriter music kind of coming together. Still getting acclimated to the band's style, but I thought compositionally, the song had a lot going for it, for sure. Definitely looking forward to this new record from them.

And that's the weekly track roundup, y'all. Thank you very much for reading.

Anthony Fantano. Weekly tracks. Forever.