Because it’s September and everyone is ramping up for the fourth quarter and the first quarter of 2026. There was a lot to choose from for the Five Songs You Must Hear This Week. Let’s see what you think of these.
1. The Last Dinner Party, This is the Killer Speaking
From the Pyre (Island/Republic)
Recommended If You Like: A slightly homicidal Florence + The Machine
The Last Dinner Party is one of the more interesting groups to come out of the UK over the last couple of years, so when their second album was announced, people began to wonder if they could keep up the momentum. They describe this lead single as “the sound of a band having fun.” I get it. They’ve also been reading about the Zodiac Killer, I see.
2. The Head and the Heart, Cop Car
Single (Verve Forecast)
RIYL: Musical mulligans.
Time for a little indie folk. Seattle’s The Head and the Heart released an album entitled Aperture in May, which contained this song, although it wasn’t among the four singles issued from the record. But something nagged at them, so THatH went back into the studio with Hurray for the Riff Raff to create a brand new version to inject new life into the album for the fall. We’ll see if this works.
3. Inhaler, Billy (yeah yeah yeah)
Private Music (Warner)
RIYL: Second generation musicians
A unfair as it might be, Inhaler is known as the Irish band fronted by the son the singer from some other Irish band called U2. However, the band is making it on their own merits without any help from Elijah Hewson’s old man. Their third album, which came out back in February, saw this song released as a single the same week. It’s being reserviced to radio to see if it might not give Inhaler a new bump. So far, North American radio seems receptive.
4. Wet Leg, Mangetout
Moisturizer (Domino)
RIYL: Fierce females
Here’s the fourth single from Wet Leg’s second album, with which we’ve been living since the middle of July. Once again, the band goes after “bottom feeders” (i.e. the type annoying men addressed in “Catch These Fists”) who need to “get lost forever.” It’s deceptively poppy when juxtaposed to the lyrics. Nice shouty closing chorus, too.
5. Limp Bizkit, Making Love to Morgan Wallen
Singe EP (Heavenly Recordings)
RIYL: Limp Bizkit? (Come on. Do you really like Limp Bizkit?)
If you lived through the testosterone-heavy bro culture of the original nu-metal scene of the late 90s and early 2000s, you no doubt have an opinion of Limp Bizkit. They went away for a while but returned a few years ago. Now they’ve teamed with EA Games to release this song, which will appear in the new game, Battlefield 6. This is their first single in four years. I include this more as more of a curiosity than anything else. I wonder what Morgan Wallen thinks?
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