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Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Kesha has a spiritual awakening in her first release in three years, Jack Harlow returns, Labrinth catches the feels, and Taylor Swift gets moody with The National.

Kesha, “Eat the Acid” (YouTube)

Seventeen, “Super” (YouTube)

Labrinth, “The Feels” (YouTube)

Jack Harlow, “They Don’t Love It” (YouTube)

Coi Leroy, “Bops” (YouTube)

Jessie Ware, “Freak Me Now” (YouTube)

Bebe Rexha feat. Dolly Parton, “Seasons” (YouTube)

Big Freedia and Ciara “100 Dollar Bill” (YouTube)

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At the height of the pandemic, Jess Williamson found herself taking long walks with her neighbor Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood. “I had met her in passing over the years, but we didn’t know each other,” says Williamson. “We were podded up, and we got to be really good friends.” Venturing around Los Feliz with Mering’s Pomeranian, Luigi, the songwriters discussed their upcoming music and dating, even starting a group text titled Ho Support. “We’d talk about boys and sorcery,” Mering says. “Mostly boys.”

Williamson...

In early 2020, just before the pandemic, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson exchanged albums. Saint Cloud and Sorceress sparked a bond between the two songwriters, and now they’ve formed the duo Plains.

As the name suggests, the project shows Crutchfield venturing further into the Lucinda Williams-esque country she leaned into on Saint Cloud, blending her voice with Williamson on the lead single “Problem With It.” Their new album, I Walked With You a Ways, arrives on Oct. 14.

The LP was produced by Crutchfield’s recent collaborator Brad Cook,...