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April 30, 2020

Best new songs today: Avishai Cohen, Fenne Lily, BadBadNotGood, Khruangbin...

Avishai Cohen

Avishai Cohen the trumpet player (not Avishai Cohen, the bass player) released a mesmerizing cover of 'Teardrop', a jazzy, post-rocky take on the classic; Khruangbin announced new album 'Mordechai' - influenced by reference sounds from Pakistan, Korea and West Africa - with the lead single ‘Time (You and I)’; Rufus Wainwright's 'Alone Time' is warm and rich in its simplicity; Bristol singer-songwriter Fenne Lily's new single 'To Be a Woman Pt. 2' is a "retaliation against subordination and a reclamation of power"; experimental musician serpentwithfeet is back with 'Apparition', an arty R'n'B EP; BadBadNotGood released two new songs - an R'n'B-ish 'Goodbye Blue', and jazzy 'Glide'; singer Amber Mark goes into male-female interaction in clubs in '1894'; London singer/songwriter Eve Owen has built, in collaboration with The National's Aaron Dessner, a big-sounding song 'Mother'; Samia released a folk song 'Is There Something In The Movies', with a cinematic video to go with; Thom Yorke released his new song 'Plasticine Figures', a piano ballad.