The 10 Best Tunes of the Week | 2024 Week 5

Image - Left: BADBADNOTGOOD; Right: Bicep

With so much new music coming out each and every day, it can be hard to listen to everything... but we'll be damned if we don't try. Here are our favourite tunes from the week that was from the likes of, BADBADNOTGOOD, Bicep, Butter, Burial, Colouring, Cool Sounds, Del Water Gap, Hit-Boy & The Alchemist, Sega Bodega and The Buoys!

BADBADNOTGOOD - Take What's Given feat. Reggie

BBNG go soulful 70s soft-rock on new single with vocals from Reggie, with the song emerging after a session around the time of Coachella 2022. Out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control.

Bicep - CHROMA 001 HELIUM

Belfast’s finest influential production & DJ duo announced the start of a new era with their CHROMA project, consisting of a new record label, events promotion and fresh live set. Fusing breakbeats with analogue synths and chopped vocal samples, HELIUM sounds like a natural evolution of the sounds we heard on their 2021 LP Isles, pushing things in a “darker and more club-focused” music than they’ve been releasing recently. Out now via CHROMA.

Butter - Remedy

After making their return with latest single Balance back in 2022, Fremantle’s finest purveyors of  buttery smooth neo soul and hip hop sounds Butter announced their forthcoming, self-titled EP with a fresh single. Opening with striking keys that soon give way to dynamic, live boom bap style drums, a groovy bass line and some nearly-show-stealing horns, frontman Lachlan Payet’s magnetic baritone vocals showcase his storytelling approach to writing effortlessly sounding, tongue twisting bars. Butter’s new EP Butter is out February 13.

Burial - Dreamfear

Iconic cult underground producer returns with a new 12” for XL Recordings, turning in two 12+ minute cuts. On the A-Side is the throwback hardcore epic of Dreamfear, seeing Burial pay homage to the formative rave scene of the early 90s while maintaining his signature sound and some very familiar samples. Out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control.

Colouring - How'd It Get So Real?

A charming, floating new slice of masterful indie pop from Nottingham-based songwriter and producer Jack Kenworthy AKA Colouring’s forthcoming album. Colouring’s new album Love To You, Mate is out February 23 via Bella Union.

Cool Sounds - BUG0BEAT

A few years on from revealing Cool Sounds was a solo project rather than a band on his fifth album Like That, Melbourne pop polymath Danis Lacey is back as Cool Sounds with the title track from his forthcoming EP. Taking things in a new direction, BUG0BEAT sees Cool Sounds going left-field, funky, disco-influenced pop. Cool Sounds’ new EP BUG0BEAT is out March 1 via Chapter Music.

Del Water Gap - Cigarettes & Wine feat. Holly Humberstone

After a huge 2023 that saw the release of his acclaimed I Miss You Already + I Haven​’​t Left Yet album, New York’s DWG has wasted no time in releasing latest single Cigarettes & Wine, a rollicking cut of folk-inflected indie-pop, featuring vocals from London’s Holly Humberstone. Out now via Mom + Pop.

Hit-Boy & The Alchemist - Morrissey

Two of the best in the hip hop game link up for a second time in the last 12 months for a new three tracker, featuring the sweeping, string-sampling cut named after one of the most talented, divisive and arrogant artists of our time.

Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

Innovative Irish producer & vocalist follows up his recent co-production of Bjork & Rosalia’s Oral with a woozy new cut of downtempo electronic pop that owes as much to underground club sounds as it does chart topping pop.

The Buoys - Guard My Heart

After a huge 2023 of touring and ahead of their appearances at Laneway 2024, Sydney’s The Buoys deliver a driving, anthemic new single that combines vocalist Zoe Catterall’s emotional vocals with The Buoys distinctive and addictive brand of poignant indie rock. Out now via Arcadia Records / Sony.

Enjoy all these tunes as well as a stack of other new music we've been feeling in our Spotify playlist.