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The Round-Up: Best Songs of The Week feat. SZA, Pharrell, Toro y Moi and More [Playlist]
The Round-Up: Best Songs of The Week feat. SZA, Pharrell, Toro y Moi and More [Playlist]

The Round-Up: Best Songs of The Week feat. SZA, Pharrell, Toro y Moi and More [Playlist]

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

21 new cuts to usher in the weekend

Back in non-Picnic mode and things seem more or less where we left them. Comey and Trump's spat finally hit the big stage with the former FBI director's congressional testimony, a Jordans level event for anyone that gives a shit about a free and open political discourse. That went well. And then there's Bill Maher, who shattered any hope of being his own white savior by dropping the n-word in a live broadcast at the tail-end of a tasteless quip.

But it's Friday and the weather's finally turning for good, which means there's a fresh new batch of fuego to hear from the week's muscular release list, as well as some resurgent names to take note of. TDE's swaggering songbird, SZA, returned with her long-delayed debut album, CTRL, featuring some assistance from labelmates Kendrick Lamar and Isaiah Rashad. Parisian pop outfit, Phoenix, touched down with their own ode to summer, Ti Amo, while Kevin Abstract's motley BROCKHAMPTON collective delivered a deafening opus that wreaks of Odd Future eccentricities. Vic Mensa's The Manuscript "capsule" is also worth cutting your teeth on.

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Throw in a grip of new singles from Toro y MoiPharrell, D.R.A.M., Jhene Aiko and 6LACK and you've got quite the score to usher in the weekend. Hear it all in the latest installment of The Round-Up below and hit the link to subscribe to our Spotify channel.

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