{"id":265371,"date":"2026-01-30T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:49:11","slug":"5-songs-you-need-to-hear-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265371\/","title":{"rendered":"5 songs you need to hear this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a \u201cSong of the Week\u201d designation. Check out last week\u2019s roundup here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Song of the Week: Jessie Ware \u2014 \u201cI Could Get Used to This\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Jessie Ware has officially entered her goddess-in-a-lounge-act era, and \u201cI Could Get Used to This\u201d is when the curtain first opens. She\u2019s back in a disco-soul lane, but the mood here is less sweat-slick dance floor and more secret-garden cabaret: fluttering strings, soft-focus flutes, a rhythm that sways rather than struts. \u201cStep into my secret garden,\u201d she purrs, and the lyrics follow through on that invitation, folding self-possessed desire into something indulgent and almost ceremonial; \u201cI\u2019ll only do it if I want it\u201d as both boundary and tease. The hook is pure silk, a little shameless in its repetition, which is exactly the point: Ware keeps turning \u201cI could get used to this\u201d over like a gemstone, testing the weight of real pleasure, real reciprocity, and deciding, with every key change and piled-on harmony, that she deserves all of it. It plays like the opening number of a larger, lavish show about romance, performance, and choosing delight on purpose; if this is the doorway into the new record, the world on the other side is going to be very hard to leave. \u2014Casey Epstein-Gross<\/p>\n

Brown Horse: \u201cTwisters\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The new Brown Horse single\u2019s got an immediate buy-in from vocalist Nyle Holihan: \u201cI like the voices on the radio, I like the feeling of changing lanes.\u201d That sounds good to me. If you missed out on All the Right Weaknesses last year you can still reserve a spot for Total Dive in a few months. \u201cTwisters\u201d is a twangy ace in the hole with Neve Cariad singing backup\u2014country guitars in bold lettering, whacked-out pickers each with a lead foot on their fuzz pedals. This is lubed-up rock and roll\u2014road-worn riffage you can catch a fix from anytime. If you\u2019re a Jason Molina fan you\u2019re gonna dig a barroom blitz like this, because Brown Horse are rambling around in a strange, disarming grin. It\u2019s a good pocket to be in, especially when Emma Tovell\u2019s pedal steel starts crying. \u201cI hope a whip of lightning cuts me right in two\u201d means something to me. \u201cTwisters\u201d rules because it\u2019s spilling out all over the place. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/p>\n

Otro: \u201cGloria\u201d \/ \u201cDownstairs Room, West Hollywood\u201d \/ \u201cLos \u00c1ngeles Sobre Espa\u00f1a (The Angels Over Spain)\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Jordanian musician Otro\u2019s forthcoming record, Peanut Ballads For A Lone Star, is billed as a collection of 21 vignettes composed as cues \u201cfor a cursed film\u201d during \u201cone clandestine night session\u201d at a recording studio in peninsular Spain. The flick was destroyed in an explosion and sent Otro into a near-psychotic case of writer\u2019s block. His Peanut Ballads are small-batch compositions shared three-ply at a time, and this most recent set totals out to 2.5 minutes of guitar voicings and backdrop noise experiments. At 63 seconds, \u201cGloria\u201d is a shaky, finger-picked classical-guitar ballad with synths rattling and droning behind Otro\u2019s next-room-over singing, dimming the chords until the song ends abruptly, purposefully. \u201cDownstairs Room, West Hollywood\u201d saunters in like somebody recorded a hotel bar entertainer on their phone and uploaded it online. It\u2019s all quite ramshackle, to be honest, especially the 53-second guitar recital titled \u201cLos \u00c1ngeles Sobre Espa\u00f1a (The Angels Over Spain).\u201d But Otro\u2019s playing is expressive, gradual. It\u2019s a green light splashing into a dark room. Nighttime busyness that looks quiet from high above. Much of his fingerboard work sounds kinetic, even in briefness. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/p>\n

Sam Goku: \u201cx-plor09 (much to give)\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"I love a well-done sample flip, and Munich producer Sam Goku does it on \u201cx-plor09 (much to give).\u201d Using the \u201cI\u2019m gonna shower you with love and affection\u201d hook from The Supremes and The Temptations\u2019 joint 1968 single \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Make You Love Me,\u201d Eddie Kendricks\u2019 warped and soulful falsetto arrives in the mix like a sweaty apparition. For seven minutes the house groove stays minimal but builds with blissful sustain. While splashes of Motown vocals cut in and out, Goku feathers inflections of glossy, pinprick synths into the track\u2019s deep, loping bounce. \u201cx-plor09\u201d is a dance music performed at the root\u2014a textured, easing glaze. \u2014Matt Mitchell<\/p>\n

Explorations 03 by Sam Goku<\/a><\/p>\n

Sluice: \u201cBeadie\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Sluice is back\u2014and with a stellar first single, to boot. \u201cBeadie\u201d unfolds like a memory you can\u2019t quite date, its slow, ambling groove gathers weight until distortion seeps in beneath Justin Morris\u2019 voice like thawed ice water. He sings about dogs and shadows and TV cops, tracing the strange tenderness and mundane melancholy of trying again: \u201cI used to move every spring \/ Now I don\u2019t \/ I cried at the state fair honey bee tent \/ Hearing how they pick their queen \/ I got back on the SSRI.\u201d It\u2019s Sluice at its sneakiest, smuggling a whole crisis-of-faith-and-feeling into what initially plays like a slow, easy lope. By the time the distortion really muscles in underneath Morris\u2019 croon, \u201cBeadie\u201d has quietly turned that low-stakes evening walk into something closer to a vow: winter\u2019s long, the splinter\u2019s still stuck, but he\u2019s going to keep worrying it loose, one small, stubborn, beautifully ordinary moment at a time. The daily, dorky work of loving and being loved is suddenly the whole point. \u2014Casey Epstein-Gross<\/p>\n

Follow @pastemagazine<\/a> on TIDAL for weekly music playlists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-265371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}