Love Songs That Don’t Suck
This week’s picks include a few tracks about the madness of romance along with a defiantly weird piece of synth music that demands your full attention.
Five Songs is a weekly series for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we each choose a new song we like and write about why we can’t stop listening to it. These are tracks that speak to us in particular, and we have a good feeling they will speak to you, too.
Read on to hear about a tenderhearted hip-hop love song named after a Swedish furniture conglomerate, an anti-vibe slice of synth-y strangeness, a jazz-inflected ode to keeping resentment out of your relationships, a drum’n’bass banger about emotions so strong they feel illegal, and a radical remake of Faith Hill’s classic power ballad “Breathe.” There are also a couple of Must Hear selections—i.e., songs we really, really love—among the five picks. Enjoy!
