{"id":9581,"date":"2018-08-08T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2018-08-10T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:29:35","slug":"new-music-cuco-clairo-robyn-travis-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/new-music-cuco-clairo-robyn-travis-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Gazing: New music from Robyn and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

At what point in the year do we stop prospecting for the Song of the Summer? I feel like it would be as easy to make an argument for September as it would be for June. Personally, I think we\u2019ve got a big enough pool of songs for Summer 2018 to choose from. At this point the best a song can hope for is \u201cSong of the Autumn\u201d or perhaps to be forgotten about and shelved with hopes to be rediscovered in time for Summer 2019. Anyhow, here are three of this week\u2019s top contenders for Song of the Autumn!<\/span>\n

Cuco & Clairo: \u201cDrown\u201d<\/h3>\n

If you don\u2019t know Cuco and Clairo, rest assured the cool kids skating past you as you groggily lumber off to work do. Both of them (performing here as a duo, but typically as solo acts) broke onto the scene via viral internet-only hits last year, and each has continued to succeed not only in making me feel 100 years old but also in laying down some of my favorite indie pop tracks in recent history (for Clairo, start with \u201cPretty Girl<\/a>,\u201d and for Cuco, try \u201cLo Que Siento<\/a>\u201d). \u201cDrown\u201d is an icy breakup anthem with a punchy keyboard bassline and traded vocals. For an ostensibly sad song, it\u2019s pretty endearing. As their reputation and fanbases continue to expand thanks to tracks like this one, beware Cuco and Clairo: more of us Olds will soon start paying attention and invariably ruin the fun for Cool Teens everywhere.<\/p>\n