15 New Songs to Add to Your Summer 2020 Playlist

Summertime during a pandemic is a paradoxical season where fraught anxiety fights against the languorous heat and irresistible weather—when the existential dread sets in just after the third patio cocktail. Normality may not be the same for a long time, but music will almost always cure the soul’s trepidations. Here, we’ve compiled a summertime playlist of new releases to dance to, cry to, sip to, and escape to.

Late Night by Lucky Daye

I Don’t Deserve You by Lexxicon

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (2020 Remaster) by Prince

Icy by Pinks Sweat$

Kubes by machinegun

Look Easy by Kaytranada feat. Lucky Daye

Fkn Around by Phony Ppl feat. Megan Thee Stallion

Summer 2020 by Jhené Aiko

I Spy by Lila Iké

Lockdown by Koffee

Play Fight by THEY. feat. Tinashe

Upset by Gashi feat. Pink Sweat$ and Njomza

C’est tout by Clay and Friends

Johnny by Tei Shi

Need You by Emanuel

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