As part of New Music Friday, EW’s music team chooses some of the essential new tunes.
Stream all of EW’s picks byfollowing our playlist(embedded below) for this week.
JAY-Z,4:44
The hip-hop titan’s hyphen is back and so are the rhymes.
Credit: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Samir Hussein/WireImage; Shore Fire Media
Queen Bey and Frank Ocean both stop by for guest appearances.
And she hasn’t just changed up the lyrical scenery.
Calvin Harris,Funk Wav Bounces Vol.
1
Need a soundtrack to your summer block party?
Instead, he’s going for a quirky, theatrical rock ballad about tuning out the haters.
Nolan Feeney
Future feat.
The new film,An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, hits theaters July 28.
“Love is hard, sex is easy,” frontman Win Butler sings on the swaggering cut.
But with quirky electro glitches and a restless drum track, it’s far from a retread.
“WE thank you & THIS is on US,” Chuck Dtweeted.
(He alsocollaborated with HAIMon their new album.)
His second outing,Man of the World, is another accomplished blast of upbeat, electro-pop cuts.
The concept record followed the demise of the frontman Josh Abbott’s marriage in five moving stages.
Madison Vain
Astrid S,Party’s OverEP
Behold the soundtrack to your summer crush.
“I just let it happen and went with the flow.”
Their accomplished debut album includes “Super Far,” a collaboration with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder.
