The new year arrives brimming and bristling with good intentions, which means a barrage of new music, with tracks by Moses Sumney, Chromatics, Richard Dawson, Elley Duhé, Tame Impala, Knxwledge, and Amindi among the standouts. There’s the best in regional rap from Atlanta breakout Lil Baby, Ohio natives and Charlotte transplants DaBaby and Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon, Riverside’s HOOK, and Detroit’s Babyface Ray, plus a couple of superstar collaborations as Drake hangs with Future and Normani glitters alongside Megan Thee Stallion. Selena Gomez shimmers and sparks on the title track from her new album Rare, Mac Miller plugs the ether with the posthumous ‘Good News’, and Bill Fay’s elegiac ‘Salt of the Earth’ serves as an echoing prelude to Countless Branches, which is due out next week, as is the hotly anticipated debut MODUS VIVENDI by G.O.O.D MUSIC artist 070 Shake.
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070 Shake – ‘Guilty Conscience’
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Selena Gomez – ‘Rare’
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Chromatics – ‘Love Theme’
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Moses Sumney – ‘Me in 20 Years’
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JAH-MONTE – ‘KEEP IT OR SWEEP IT BUT MY BITCH STILL GETTING OPRAH WINFREY MONEY’
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Lil Baby – ‘Sum 2 Prove’
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Boris Brejcha – ‘Lieblingsmensch’
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DatBoiSkeet – ’93’ (feat. DaBaby)
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Axian – ‘Square One’ (with Tesk & Alberto Droguett)
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Cold Beat – ‘Prism’
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Bill Fay – ‘Salt of the Earth’
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Babyface Ray – ‘Free Spazzo’
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Mint Julep – ‘Stray Fantasies’
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Megan Thee Stallion & Normani – ‘Diamonds’
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Future – ‘Life Is Good’ (feat. Drake)
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HULA – ‘YAAS’
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Richard Dawson – ‘Dead Dog in an Alleyway’
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Rejoicer – ‘Pre-Memory Circle’
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Willy J Peso – ‘New Rules’ (feat. Oba Rowland)
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Amindi – ‘Love Em Leave Em’ (feat. Kari Faux)
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Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven – ‘Where Did The Night Go’
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Destroyer – ‘Cue Synthesizer’
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Ozgood & Sa’D Ali – ‘No Couture’ (FSQ Remix – One Era Edit)
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Tame Impala – ‘Lost In Yesterday’
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Hana Vu – ‘Fighter’
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Knxwledge – ‘Do You’
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Mac Miller – ‘Good News’
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Sia – ‘Original’
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Frazey Ford – ‘Azad’
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Elley Duhé – ‘MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT’
