The Singles Jukebox: April 2026 I’m all-in like Chris Hayes for “Leak It,” a sass-heavy freak show by an English girl group trio that owns its silliness. I was more gaga over “404 (New Era),” thanks …

An okay @singlesjukebox.bsky.social month. FLO's "Leak It" and KiiiKiii's "404 (New Era)" caught my ears like Kacey Musgraves, Harry Styles, and Ella Langley didn't. wp.me/pzXeC-ldM

Quoth the KiiiKiii, 404:

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Harry Styles – American Girls – The Singles Jukebox Pop, to two decimal places

"Feels like a transmission from an alternate universe where [Harry Styles] can blend into the crowd" - our thoughts on "American Girls":

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I like Alex Warren more and more these days. I think he has more potential than Benson Boone (though he hasn’t quite gotten there for me yet).

Ella Langley – Be Her – The Singles Jukebox

We review Ella Langley's follow-up to "Choosin' Texas" and like it nearly as much: thesinglesjukebox.com/ella-langley...

Alex Warren – Fever Dream – The Singles Jukebox

It's Jukebox time again, and we're starting this month with Alex Warren and "the exact center" of mid-2020s Anglophone pop:

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The Singles Jukebox: March 2026 In a rare moment of consensus, the Jukeboxers agreed on the merits of “Be the Girl” — “like some weird mix of “’Dancing On My Own’” and “’Toy Soldiers&#821…

@singlesjukebox.bsky.social reached consensus with Hemlocke Springs's "Be the Girl." Good songs by Charli XCX and A$AP Rocky follow in this month's roundup. wp.me/pzXeC-l55

this was the only thing I had the mental energy to write about this month. it is about wondering where all your mental energy has gone. mitski really is a brilliant lyricist

Doechii ft. SZA – Girl, Get Up. – The Singles Jukebox Getting up on our 2026 scoreboard…

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Doechii ft. SZA – Girl, Get Up. [7.86]
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"This confrontation of misogynoir sounds intimate and infinite, simultaneously a conversation between just two friends and for an entire industry." (Wayne Weizhen Zhang)

Robyn – Talk to Me – The Singles Jukebox

14/15
Robyn - Talk to Me [7.75]
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"At once familiar and novel, “Talk to Me” finds Robyn more assured of the dance verities through which she survived a dishonest decade" (@sotoalfred.bsky.social)

Mitski – Where’s My Phone? – The Singles Jukebox

13/15
Mitski- Where's My Phone [7.43]
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"A less confident songwriter would have added a bunch more faff to push the metaphor; Mitski keeps her lyrics short, as usual, and the result is surgically precise, heavy, and desperate." (@wgwgsa.net)

Dave ft. Tems – Raindance – The Singles Jukebox

12/15
Dave ft. Tems - Raindance [7.22]
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"If Dave’s best moments on his latest chart-scrapping big one are still his corniest, perhaps that’s perfectly fine and perhaps there’s something moving even about that" (Andrew Karpan)

Ella Langley – Choosin’ Texas – The Singles Jukebox

11/15
Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas [7.08]
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"She must admit that he may have made the right choice [...] It’s that sort of resigned fatalism, more than any fiddle or Dobro, that is country music’s true national language." (Taylor Alatorre)

Pooh Shiesty – FDO – The Singles Jukebox

10/15
Pooh Shiesty - FDO [6.83]
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"Reminds me of when I’d see my brother play futbol — the smooth turns, the patient passing, the tight disciplined tackling, someone in full control of their instrument and ready to use it in any manner necessary" (Nortey Dowuona)

Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun – The Singles Jukebox

9/15
Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun [6.22]
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"A summer anthem that somehow works better the further away from summer we get" (Joshua Lu)

Olivia Dean – So Easy (to Fall in Love) – The Singles Jukebox

8/15
Olivia Dean - So Easy (to Fall in Love) [5.86]
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"So wholesome that it makes Burt Bacharach sound like 100 gecs" (@morayati.bsky.social)

Harry Styles – Aperture – The Singles Jukebox

7/15
Harry Styles - Aperture [5.83]
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"I love seeing Harry Styles leaning into being a weird little guy rather than a sexy rockstar" (@albatrossalex.bsky.social)

Bruno Mars – I Just Might – The Singles Jukebox

6/15
Bruno Mars – I Just Might
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"The chorus comes and explodes into KC and the Sunshine Band and, well, I’ve gotta smile" (@tainskeep.bsky.social)

EsDeeKid – 4 Raws – The Singles Jukebox

5/15
EsDeeKid - 4 Raws [5.71]
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"God, I wish I’d never heard the Timothée Chalamet version" (@ismathers.bsky.social)

Lil Uzi Vert – What You Saying – The Singles Jukebox

4/15
Lil Uzi Vert – What You Saying [5.50]
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"I don’t know if I actually like this, but it’s such an interesting experiment that I’m willing to see where it goes" (@alcartoonist.bsky.social)

Manifest – Amatör – The Singles Jukebox

3/15
Manifest – Amatör [5.43]
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"There’s something cathartic about listening to this particular girl group make an anthem explicitly rebuffing male ego" (@loneclaire.bsky.social)

Zach Bryan – Plastic Cigarette – The Singles Jukebox

2/15
Zach Bryan - Plastic Cigarette [4.89]
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"If I was Zach Bryan’s manager, I wouldn’t know which song to pick for a single. But if I was Zach Bryan’s manager, that would be the least of my problems." (Julian Axelrod)

Haven ft. Kaitlin Aragon – I Run – The Singles Jukebox

As ever, this month our collective have reviewed 15 current hits. Here is a thread of our posts, in ascending score order!

1/15
Haven ft. Kaitlin Aragon - I Run [3.00]
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"Top of the Slops" (@liamwalds.bsky.social)

Harry Styles – Aperture – The Singles Jukebox

Got my shit together to blurb one (1) song this month for @singlesjukebox.bsky.social. Click for a bunch of smart opinions and also the thing I wrote, lol! thesinglesjukebox.com/harry-styles...

Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe – The Singles Jukebox

If I'm right about which one, I just checked and we reviewed it in 2011 on @singlesjukebox.bsky.social!

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(not just posting this because I was one of two who already recognised how great it was. Well, not entirely)

Haven ft. Kaitlin Aragon – I Run – The Singles Jukebox

Haven's "I Run" makes it way back from a chart ban, and even one of our writers who didn't know about its AI controversy pegs it as AI:

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EsDeeKid – 4 Raws – The Singles Jukebox

Our UK chart catch up day ends with EsDeeKid's "4 Raws", and Julian gives us a ranking of which other Oscar nominees should remix it:

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Dave ft. Tems – Raindance – The Singles Jukebox

We review "loquacious and dorky as ever" Dave and "absolutely incredible" Tems:

thesinglesjukebox.com/dave-ft-tems...

Iain Mew: The easiness is a natural follow-on from songs about being nice to each other and just talking to her, but I like it a lot more for two reasons. One is just how full-on that ease is, a commitment to pillowy lushness in all aspects that matches up to Olivia Dean’s gorgeous vocal and the words of dreams and cake and heaven. The other is how that’s set off by the hint of something else that’s in there, at least by implication. You don’t sing about how easy you are to fall in love with and how “anyone with a heart would agree” without the possibility that the recipient might yet turn out not to have that heart. [8]

For @singlesjukebox.bsky.social, I wrote about the new Olivia Dean single, my favourite one so far:

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A computer monitor on an office desk with a Microsoft Word document open and icons visible outside the window, several of which are for Memphis beta testers

Screenshot from the Memphis beta version of Windows, with the same Memphis Beta Tester Web and Memphis Beta Guide icons visible

according to the music video for "Easy to Fall in Love," Olivia Dean is a beta tester for Windows 98