Playlist of the Week

Without much of any warning, I got sunburnt this weekend- an inevitable fate of my stupidly pale skin, but also a beautiful personal harbinger of maybe summer. So in honor of this school year almost being done, (minus finals ha ha) here's a list of songs that would be really nice to hear when you're getting sunburnt or even tan.

Pop Style --- Drake ft. Kanye & Jay-Z

Drake finally stopped posting cryptic billboards all over his hometown long enough to finally supplement it with something from the upcoming album Views, set to come out April 29th. But in a very Kanye West move, this single is only on Tidal, a site that is still trying to blackmail us with exclusives, all while forgetting about the existence of pirating on the Internet. Regardless, Aubrey Drake has to make this public eventually. However when it is public, know that Jay-Z's "verse" is actually a two line intro for Kanye, which much like my sunburn, sort of seems like a sad omen for Jay-Z, a man who has lost his fervor so much that he's cool with Drake beating him verse-to-verse.

(Photo Courtesy of Bleacher Report)

I Want to Be Your Lady Baby --- INOJ

INOJ is magic in that she sounds exactly what I think a late 90's pop song sounds like. This song sounds like belly shirts, baby colors, faded jeans, and small frame sunglasses. It's the song that would be on in the background as the hot girl in a 90's movie watched herself dance in the mirror.

Who Be Lovin' Me --- Santigold ft. ILOVEMAKONNEN

I mainly chose this song because of the dreamy video. Dreamy in that only in my own personal dreams would Santigold, a Philly girl herself, be riding around my home-city in a golf cart, stopping occasionally only to say hey to other performers at last summer's Made in America Festival.

Ridin Round --- Kali Uchis

Kali Uchis is my favorite new Internet girl. I hate using the word "Internet" in terms of music because then we get down the path of chill wave, (IE Toro y Moi right below us here) and other not real genre descriptions, but Kali Uchis in some ways fits the bill because her looks make her as much of a visual artist as a music artist. It's a whole thing with her. But the song is what really matters here and it continues this playlist's nice little theme of cruising in good weather.

Flying High --- Travis Scott ft. Toro y Moi

Chaz Budnick from Toro y Moi has been making some hip-hop sounding beats for a while now with Toro y Moi, a dreamy "chillwave" group, but hasn't really ever been on a rap song himself until now. The Travis Scott feature is huge as it bridges the two genres officially, and gives Scott, a Kanye West mentee, a stamp proving he may be the visionary he has been marketing himself as.

Frontin --- Pharrell ft. Jay-Z

Pharrell pre-hat and pre-Voice coach was the smoothest coolest guy in the world. Anything fused with a Neptunes-esque beat sounds like hot weather and anything with Snoop sounds like a relaxed good time.

Glitchin --- Jaguar Pyramids

Jaguar Pyramids are part of the new huge surge in Western Mass. music (that's not the Pixies or Sonic Youth. ) They're part of a dark rap thing going on, which has birthed an extremely extensive catalogue on Soundcloud that portfolios the growing scene.