The five best songs we heard this week.
Every Friday, EW’s music team runs down the five best songs of the week.
(Also: A bonus song from the recently reformed Semisonic.)
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Cults latest single, from their forthcoming album,Host, has a much different vibe.
Eli Enis
“So What!”
Take Jaden Hossler, aka jxdn.
Together theyre giving the pop-punk genreBlink-182helped popularize a 2020 update.
On “So What!”
“Lockdown” Koffee
“Where will we go?
When di quarantine ting done and everybody touch road.”
Koffee is looking to the future with her new track “Lockdown.”
Like fellow folk ascetics Bon Iver, Haux summons ghosts from the ether so as to better banish them.
Isaac Feldberg
Bonus: “You’re Not Alone” Semisonic
It’s reopening time.
It’s a good start at least.
The song presages a five song EP, also titledYou’re Not Alone, out Sept. 18.
Sarah Rodman
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