TTSSFU; Jeremy Tauriac; Guapdad 4000
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can’t get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order. Listen on our Spotify and Apple Music playlists, or hear them all below.
Dawn Richard, “A Flex”
Dawn Richard’s last album was a beautiful ambient-electronic turn, where she sang over flickering synths and piano. Her new single, however, is a return to what she does best: bring-the-house-down sultry pop with a cutting R&B edge. —Steffanee Wang
Prostitute, “Mr. Dada”
Prostitute, a five-piece from Michigan, made one of the most urgent punk records responding to the current political moment in Oct. 2024. The band has now signed to Mute and will be releasing the record again on vinyl in March 2026. To celebrate, they’ve shared an abridged version of their 7-minute manifesto “Mr. Dada,” a blaze of noise, metallic shavings, and lyrics that howl at the injustice of U.S. imperialism. —SW
TTSSFU, “Upstairs”
Call it shoegaze or a smear of dream-pop, “Upstairs” by British newcomer TTSSFU is pleasantly fuzzy like unearthing a home video from decades ago. —SW
Guapdad 4000, “Paysexual”
The Ferragamo Falcon, Valentino Viper, and handsome lifestyle connoisseur returns with his first song in almost five years. He boasts his love for bills (“I don’t want nan bitch, I’m paysexual”) and for himself (“I’m in love with myself, I’m my other half”), somehow managing to exceed his previous levels of self-infatuation, over a Neptunes-meets-Timbaland type beat. If you’re running low on self-love, this track has no shortage of cocky affirmations to inflate your ego. —Kylah Williams
ILLIT, “Not Cute Anymore”
Infusing reggae beats with dreamy pop vocals, now I never have to wonder what Paris Hilton’s “Stars are Blind” would sound like if it was written with a glittery pen. ILLIT doesn’t shed their ultra-cute image altogether, still insisting upon their “maturity” in this relatively sleek song. —Hajin Yoo
Fine, “Moment”
The Copenhagen songstress waxes poetic over two guitar chords, creating a looping wheel of rumination. —Tobias Hess
Andrew Aged, “Banner”
Mk.gee co-wrote and co-produced this track with Andrew Aged, who plays guitar in his band and has done session work for the likes of Frank Ocean and Lorde. On this blistering, heavenly track, Aged finds transcendence in pure distortion. —TH
Robyn, Jamie xx, “Dopamine”
Jamie xx takes Robyn’s latest single and kicks it up to 100. With vocal chops and screws and a subtle dash of garage, he transforms the original into a kaleidoscope of textures that demands a more introspective listen. —HY
Dc2Trill, “Billy Mays”
The Southern spitting Texas rapper delivers a floaty freestyle released only on Soundcloud. The song is filled with him UGH-ing as an ad lib, and I find myself chiming in. He’s serenading his love, Codeine, which makes sense why the song sounds so muddy. —KW
SWAVAY, “All I Do”
On “All I Do,” Atlanta artist SwaVay is ready to die on the hill of loyalty. He speaks straight to the woman he loves, pleading with her not to fake her feelings while promising he’d never switch up. “First things first, I’d never switch up on my bitch — if I do, you can take my chain.” —KW