This week’s best new songs: Wild Pink, Japandroids, Chat Pile and more

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that most caught our attention, whether it’s a single precedenting an album release or a newly revealed deep cut. And every Monday, we round up the best new songs that came out in the past week in this Best New Music segment (the entry period begins Monday and ends Sunday night).

On this week’s list, we have Alan Sparhawk’s captivating, trap-influenced “Can U Hear,” the first preview of the Low singer and guitarist’s upcoming solo album; “The Fences of Stonehenge,” the hazy, shimmering first single from Wild Pink’s new album; Militarie Gun’s slow-burning “Thought You Were Waving”; Japandroids’ soaring and earnest “Chicago,” which leads the band’s fourth and final LP; “I Am Dog Now,” the gnarly, pounding first taste of Chat Pile’s sophomore album; Great Grandpa’s first new song in five years, the dreamy, sweeping “Kid”; oso oso’s shimmering new song “That’s What Time Does”; and “Skin on Skin,” the inviting boygenius-produced new single from jasmine.4.t, the first British artist to sign to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records.

Best new songs: July 22, 2024

Alan Sparhawk, “Can you hear”

Song of the week: Wild Rosa, “The Fences of Stonehenge”

Military rifle, “I thought you were waving”

Japandroids, “Chicago”

Chat Pile, “I’m a dog now”

Great-grandfather, “Kid”

oso oso, “that’s what time does”

jasmine.4.t, “Skin on skin”