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Songs You Need In Your Life This Week July 16, 2026

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THURSDAY JULY 16, 2026

Songs You Need In Your Life This Week

Tracks we love right now, in no particular order.
Each week, The FADER staff rounds up the songs we can't get enough of. Here they are, in no particular order.
Listen to the Songs Your Need In Your Life Playlist on:
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Y2K alt-pop band After’s music is aesthetically nostalgic, but emotionally immediate. Their new Frou Frou-esque track “Take Me to Sunrise” is sure to induce main character syndrome with its soaring strings and mythic lyrics. — Tobias Hess
Everyone loves FADER cover star underscores’s “The Peace” — including rising cult hyperrap figure slayr. “Promise,” off his energetic new EP, uses “The Peace” as a musical backdrop to reflect on the butterflies that come from having a crush. —Steffanee Wang
Jungle’s princess Nia Archives brings London’s Jorja Smith into her world for a bassy but emotional dance record. Their ethereal voices meld into one another's amidst birds chirping as they sing about longing for someone on a night out. Nia's hard beat ensures, though, that any hard feelings won't be able to damper the party. — Kylah Williams
Pellowclouds makes spacey, synth driven dance music with an off-kilter rhythmic sensibility. Like occasional collaborator zayok, his music draws on elements of digicore, but pushes into new shoegazey terrain. The insistent groove of “thief” might have you dancing too hard to care about any specific genre debates, though. – Vivian Medithi
This multigenerational track has something for everyone. U.K. drum and bass duo Sigma, along with Bristol producer Zimma, revive Soul II Soul's "Back to Life." London MC Capo Lee rides over the top of the soulful DnB track with off-balance bars while singer Liv Campbell performs the original song’s hook. — Drew Neiman
Craig David, king of UK garage, has writing credits on this cut from Kelela’s new album so you can imagine it’s flawless. On it, Kelela sings about waiting for a lover in bed, but with a detached cool only she can pull off. —SW
Copenhagen-based artist and AD 93-signee GB’s music has a pop familiarity that’s offset by his slyly complex composition. His new song “The Next Day” has a hypnotic, dreamy quality that is filled with feeling. — TH
Basically Daft Punk with the BPM and bass turned all the way up. Perfection.—DN
Tottenham, London (Nippa’s hood) is roughly 6,000 miles from Los Angeles (Blxst’s hood), yet the two meet in the middle to rep their respective cities with a "made it from the bottom" anthem. They’re singing about their come-up in the way rappers do, but the smoothness makes it hit much harder. — KW
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