Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is ...

"These are the songs where I feel like I best accomplished what I set out to do, the times where I feel like I smashed the brief and squeezed all the juice out of the lemon"