Welcome to AP A-sides, the place we’re highlighting the perfect songs from the previous week. Each Friday, the AP editors will wade by means of the daunting variety of tracks launched day by day, slender down their favorites, and provides them to you in a single playlist. As a result of the definition of different is consistently in flux, there aren’t any inflexible parameters to our picks — simply tracks we’re obsessively speaking about and listening to on repeat. This week’s playlist options artists various in style however singular in sound, together with Sword II, They Are Gutting a Physique of Water, Jean Dawson, Danny Brown, False Actuality, and extra.
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Take a look at our picks under, and keep knowledgeable about all the pieces popping out in October with our month-to-month album launch calendar.
AP A-sides – October 17, 2025
- Danny Brown – “Copycats” (feat. underscores)
- Future Bond – “Can’t Kill The Love”
- False Actuality – “MIRROR”
- Coronary heart to Gold – “Double Imaginative and prescient”
- Jean Dawson – “White Lighter”
- Knumears – “Breaking Floor”
- Maneka – “throwing ax”
- Sword II – “Halogen”
- They Are Gutting a Physique of Water – “bitter diesel”
- WHATMORE – “jackie chan”
