{"id":3330,"date":"2025-08-29T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:24:53","slug":"sound-off-10-songs-you-need-to-hear-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/sound-off-10-songs-you-need-to-hear-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Off: 10 Songs You Need to Hear Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s impossible to be across all the new music<\/a> out each Friday. Luckily, PAPER<\/em> is here to help you out: each week, we round up 10 of our favorite new songs from artists \u2014 emerging and established \u2014 to soundtrack your life. From the surreal to the sublime, these songs cover every corner of the music world. The only criteria: they all have to absolutely rip.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to our Sound Off Spotify playlist here<\/a> and check out this week’s tracks, below.<\/p>\n

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Song Of The Week: Sabrina Carpenter – “Goodbye”<\/h3>\n

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The final track on Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s great new album Man\u2019s Best Friend <\/em><\/em>is this deeply ABBA (and deeply Sabrina!) kiss-off to an ex which, naturally, is funny and bittersweet and brilliant all at once. This song is totally euphoric and will likely be a great show closer for Carpenter\u2019s next tour \u2013 wouldn\u2019t this sound fucking incredible with a confetti drop?<\/p>\n

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\u201cVivid Light\u201d is one of the most quintessentially Blood Orange-y songs on Dev Hynes\u2019 latest Essex Honey<\/em><\/em>, but it\u2019s still an expansive step forward on an album full of them. There are layers of nostalgia and intense grief on this song, all swaddled in Hynes\u2019 gorgeous, melancholy production. <\/p>\n

Elias R\u00f8nnenfelt – “USA Baby”<\/h3>\n

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Weirdo spaghetti western rap-adjacent music from Iceage\u2019s Elias Ronnenfelt? Literally nothing sounds more appealing to me. <\/p>\n

Sharp Pins – “(I Wanna) Be Your Girl”<\/h3>\n

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Kai Slater is following up his fantastic reissue of last year\u2019s Radio DDR <\/em><\/em>with another album of GBV-y garage power-pop, and the first single \u201cI Wanna Be Your Girl\u201d is totally sublime.<\/p>\n

Ben Bondy, Lovefear, Nick Le\u00f3n – “Halfmoon”<\/h3>\n

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Gorgeous, meditative indie-ambient from three secretly virtuosic underground heroes.<\/p>\n

HighSchool – “Dipped”<\/h3>\n

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The first single from HighSchool\u2019s debut album is exquisitely moody and mood-making, a wash of rough textures and totally smooth melodies.<\/p>\n

Geese – “100 Horses”<\/h3>\n

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Listening to this song feels weird and good in a way that\u2019s discomfiting but deeply enjoyable … which I think is basically what Geese are going for 100% of the time.<\/p>\n

Balu Brigada – “Sideways”<\/h3>\n

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The NZ band are taking it back to the golden era of 2010s indie pop with \u201cSideways,\u201d a deft, crunchy song that\u2019s breezy and extremely catchy. <\/p>\n

Chat Pile, Hayden Pedigo – “Radioactive Dreams”<\/h3>\n

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An unexpected collaboration between beloved American weirdos, \u201cRadioactive Dreams\u201d is grand, emotional and surprisingly pretty.<\/p>\n

Bright Eyes, Hurray For The Riff Raff – “Dyslexic Palindrome”<\/h3>\n

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A totally winning combination \u2013 both Bright Eyes and Hurray For The Riff Raff have been putting their own stamps on Americana for many years, so it makes sense to hear their gorgeous voices together on this track. <\/p>\n

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Photography: Bryce Anderson<\/em><\/p>\n

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