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Luke Hemmings’ Heartfelt ‘Benny’ and 4 More Cool New Pop Songs This Week
Luke Hemmings' "Benny" leads this week's cool pop songs roundup.
Per a press release, Mabel’s new single marks “a return to her R&B roots,” and while the British hitmaker has found success outside of the genre, she nails the exercise here, stuffing “Vitamins” with sultry “sha-la-la” hooks and effortless vocal runs. The veteran Montreal post-punk group Corridor returned last week with Mimi, and album highlight “Jump Cut” serves as a perfect introduction to the project’s appeal, smashing guitars and keyboards into each other during an extended instrumental breakdown bookended by a sleek vocal refrain. Nilüfer Yanya often deploys her voice like a whole collection of instruments beyond the indie-pop arrangement beneath it, and on ripping new single “Like I Say (I Runaway),” she speeds up her delivery, slows it down, then lets it glide, setting up a captivating world and then developing it in guitar fuzz.
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