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From ambient to indie, some of our favorite new tunes this week

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm: You Got To Move In 2011, musician Levon Helm (perhaps best known as a vocalist and drummer for The Band) invited legendary recording artist Mavis Staples to his Woodstock studio to record a series of sessions. They would become some one of Helm’s last, as he passed away due to throat cancer in 2012. From these sessions—which will be released …

Lucky Daye: Cherry Forest

From Lucky Daye’s recently released second album, Candydrip, comes the luminous “Cherry Forest.” The hypnotic mid-tempo tune is carried by the singer-songwriter and musician’s soulful vocals, creating an uplifting and romantic combination.

Saba feat. Krayzie Bone: Come My Way

Rappers Saba and Krayzie Bone reunite for the track “Come My Way,” which appears on Saba’s latest album Few Good Things. The official music video flits back and forth between exterior shots of a sun-lit day and the interiors of a dark room, capturing the breezy buoyancy of the track as well as its realistic themes of poverty, grief and the endless toil that comes with …