Old Gold, New Pop and Six Reasons to Keep Digging
This week jumps decades without blinking. The Mamas & The Papas bring a deep-cut glow, Tinashe pushes straight into her Popstar era, Tsatsamis keeps things sleek and intimate, TV Priest drag the room back toward post-punk grit, Wet Leg hand “CPR” over to horsegiirL for a club detour, and When In Rome return with a polished synth-pop pulse. Six tracks, no straight line required.
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THEE DIG OF THE WEEK
Artist: The Mamas & The Papas
Tune: “Free Advice”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
Buried on 1967’s Deliver, “Free Advice” is a reminder that The Mamas & The Papas had plenty more in the cupboard than the handful of songs history keeps recycling. The harmonies stay plush, the arrangement keeps moving, and the whole thing carries that unmistakable late-’60s California polish. Deep cut, still sparkling.
Artist: Tinashe
Tune: “Crash Out”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
Tinashe has spent years making pop on her own terms, and “Crash Out” lands right in the middle of that sweet spot where precision and looseness meet. Produced by Couros and folded into her 2026 album Popstar, the track keeps its cool while still hitting with enough rhythmic snap to move the room. Tinashe sounds completely in command of the scale she is playing with now.
Artist: Tsatsamis
Tune: “Recreational”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
“Recreational” keeps everything close to the skin. Tsatsamis co-produced the track with Sakima and Clarence Clarity, building a polished electronic setting around a lyric that circles emotional distance and the things people cannot quite say out loud. It is sleek without becoming anonymous — the kind of restrained pop that knows exactly how much to leave hanging in the air.
Artist: TV Priest
Tune: “The Mud Never Dries”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
TV Priest return with the kind of track title that already sounds like a warning. “The Mud Never Dries” is one of the first tastes of Cartoons, their third album, and it finds the London band pushing past the tighter post-punk frame of their earlier records. Still abrasive, still restless, but roomier around the edges. The album lands November 6.
Artist: Wet Leg & horsegiirL
Tune: “CPR (horsegiirL remix)”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
Wet Leg’s “CPR” gets pulled off the indie-rock floor and dropped directly into the club. horsegiirL’s remix speeds up the pulse, thickens the low end and adds a new verse, turning the original into something much more deliberately high-octane. The remix appears on moisturizer (deluxe), and the best part is that it does not politely decorate the source material — it actually reroutes it.
Artist: When In Rome
Tune: “Human Nature”
WHY IT MADE THE CUT
Nearly four decades after their debut, When In Rome step back in with “Human Nature” and wisely do not pretend the synth-pop DNA ever went anywhere. The track leans into crisp electronic production, a clean melodic hook and the kind of widescreen ’80s atmosphere that made the band recognizable in the first place. Nostalgic, yes. Stuck there, no.
