The Contenders, Vol. 13: The songs we can't stop playing this week
The latest update to our running list of the year's best songs includes new ones from Wilco and Omar Apollo, an ode to friendship from Charli XCX and Lorde and more.
Featured songs and artists:
1. Wilco: "Hot Sun," from 'Hot Sun Cool Shroud'
2. Charli XCX and Lorde: "The girl, so confusing version with lorde" (single)
3. Sondre Lerche: "You Are Impossible," from 'Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition)'
4. Omar Apollo: "Plane Trees" (feat. Mustafa), from 'God Said No'
5. Remy Bond: "Summer Song" (feat. Air) (single)
6. Cassandra Jenkins: "Petco," from 'My Light, My Destroyer'
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