This is our weekly recap of the best new songs released each week because Plato said that music gives soul to the universe and wings to the mind and we care deeply about your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

It’s also not a bad way to start the weekend. Here’s a Spotify playlist of the songs (with some substitutions for the ones that aren’t on Spotify yet) if that’s more your speed. Also, here’s our collected Spotify playlist of all the songs of the week we’ve had.

A general warning that many of these songs have explicit lyrics. Here they are, in no particular order:

1. Deerhoof — The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue

For nearly 20 years this San Francisco outfit has been blithely ignoring trends, spitting out brittle, angular and by turns, endearingly goofy post-punk. The Magic is their 17th (or so) release (depending on how you count ‘em) and it’s full of more of the same: beeping, slashing and where-did-that-part-come-from indie-punk-rock. Singer Satomi Matsuzaki coos out a typically off-center melody in The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue, while the guitars of John Dieterich and Ed Rodríguez tangle/untangle when they aren’t snarling. The bottom drops out at 1.40 while your head slowly melts away and that’s a good time to open your eyes and watch the surrealist (natch) claymation stop-action video. A truly majestic American band rolls on and you should remain in awe for as long as they keep it up. — Patrick Foster (co-host of Dad Rock Podcast)

2. Blood Orange — Best To You

I’ve loved Blood Orange — aka British artist Devonté “Dev” Hynes — since he released Coastal Grooves in 2011. I’ve been so excited for his third album, Freetown Sound, and it doesn’t disappoint. Haunting vocals, syncopated beats, and a heady, dream-like quality hold it together, and yet each song explores and wanders in its own way. Hynes’ latest project is packed with guest appearances, from author Ta-Nehisi Coates to singer Carly Rae Jepson. Best To You, featuring the beautiful voice of Empress Of, is my favorite track so far, but you’ll want to put this album on when you wake up on Saturday morning and just let it ride. — Charlotte Wilder

3. Roy Wood$ — Gwan Big Up Yourself

Roy Wood$ got a fresh helping of hype when he signed to OVO Records, but his new LP Waking at Dawn doesn’t disappoint, all sultry R&B and reggae beats and Wood$’s understated vocals. Gwan Big Up Yourself is the single and it’s a strong one — Wood$ may be from Ontario but the guy knows his way around an island rhythm. — Nate Scott

4. Marisa Anderson — In Waves

I’ve been telling anyone who will listen to me — and let’s face it, their numbers are increasingly dwindling — about Marisa Anderson ever since I discovered her moving, evocative solo guitar works. The touchstone is John Fahey, of course, but there is a haunting lonliness, a depth of feeling in her playing, that is very modern. Her latest purports to be “the soundtrack to an imaginary science-fiction western film” and even if that sounds a little icky, the shimmering surface of “In Waves” will wipe any trace of grimace of your face. The notes ring and hum, the fingerpicking is wondorous, the trance comes over you and your rolling in the reverb and tremelo and by the time it’s over, astonished that three mintues actually passed. — Patrick Foster

5. Grace — Church on Sunday

Grace, a one-name singer from Australia, has a dope voice. It’s full of soul and sounds a little bit like Amy Winehouse, but with a bit more of a poppy vibe. Hope You Understand sounds like mo-town mixed with a song that would accompany an ’80s rom com montage. AKA it’s everything you could ever want. — Charlotte Wilder

6. Video Age — Dance Square

Video Age is a New Orleans band made up of two former members of the group Native America, and their new song Dance Square has one of my favorite music videos of the year. The video shows a guy named Tyler, who the members of Video Age dancing at a birthday party, cutting a rug, Footloose style, in an abandoned warehouse. The song is great, yes. But Tyler. Man. Tyler is electric.  — Nate Scott

7. Cousin Stizz — 500 Horses

Cousin Stizz is from Boston, and I’m from Boston, and he’s a rapper, and I love rap, so to see a really promising rapper rising up from our city on a hill (as some old dude once called it) brings me more joy than I can even begin to say. We can’t claim many great rappers, but Stizz is from Dorchester, a part of Boston south of downtown, and his first mixtape was called Suffolk County in homage to his hometown. I love his flow over the plodding, slow beat. Can’t wait to hear more from this guy. — Charlotte Wilder

8. Logic — Wrist (feat. Pusha T)

I have listened to Maryland rapper Logic before and — how do I put this nicely –was resistant to his charms. On his new mixtape Bobby Tarantino it’s a lot of the same stuff, but on Wrist he brings on Pusha T, which is the smartest thing you can ever do when making a rap song. I may not totally get the appeal of Logic, but I get the appeal of this song. — Nate Scott

9. Maxwell — 1900x

I must be in a soulful mood today or something, because this is another languid, R&B-like jam. Maxwell is so good. His high voice is super satisfying, and each track is really sexy. 1990x builds as it goes on — it would be a great first dance song at a wedding. Granted, it gets kind of weird and funky at the end. But hey, if you aren’t a weird and funky couple, you’re doing it wrong. — Charlotte Wilder

10. New York Movie — Firecracker

This song is all bright and fun, something to throw on before the fireworks come on the Fourth of July. Which happens to be on Monday. We’re topical here at FTW Culture, don’t you worry. — Nate Scott