Nelly Furtado's defiant anthem, and 4 more songs you need to hear this week

Songs you need to hear is CBC Music's weekly list of hot new Canadian tracks.

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'Corazón,' Nelly Furtado feat. Bomba Estéreo

Nelly Furtado is releasing her first album in seven years, titled 7, in September and its second single, "Corazón," is a celebration of Latin drums and sticking to your guns. Over the past four years, Furtado has written over 400 songs, collaborating with countless songwriters and musicians from around the world, and "Corazòn" is one of the songs that came out of those sessions. It was written in Colombia while she was visiting Liliana Saumet, the lead singer of Grammy-nominated group Bomba Estéreo, after her friend and fellow vocalist, Lido Pimienta, recommended she make the trip out there to re-inspire herself. "You can't play me like I'm dumb/ I already know what I've done/ I've already been on the run/ Don't want to be under your thumb," she sings defiantly in the first verse of "Corazón," with Bomba Estéreo's explosive percussion emboldening her.

Furtado recently sat down with CBC Music, saying it was the solidarity she found amongst other working mothers that let her feel ready to return to music: "It's about building community, and sometimes you just need to meet people who are on the same journey as you, and Li and Lido are on that journey… we're all balancing being mothers with having music careers." In the same interview, she called 7 "a bridge between the past, present and future of my music" — and with her history of fusing pop, folk, Latin, R&B, and more recently, EDM, it's sure to be a riveting smorgasbord of sounds. — Kelsey Adams

'Learning How to Love,' Bandt feat. Aquakultre

Aquakultre is a bit of a chameleon: the Halifax-based musician is as deft an R&B vocalist as he is a hip-hop artist, and among his many genre-bending collaborations is an upcoming musical with hometown company 2b theatre. So it's no surprise that he suddenly dropped a music video for a track with Italian hip-hop artist Bandt (formerly known by Badge and Talkalot), who'd been playing Aquakultre's debut album, Don't Trip, at the radio station where he works when he contacted the artist for a collaboration. Co-directed by Aquakultre and artist/partner Julia Hutt, and shot by John Walsh, the visuals are appropriately smoky for a track that rides on a slinky drum-and-saxophone backbone. Aquakultre fires off verses about learning how to love in a world that's stacked against it: "We in a rush/ to the grave keep praying on the hush/ if it flow keep flowing let it bust/ we in a screen and forget how to touch/ we living life not knowing how to love," he raps on the chorus, flowing into a rhyme scheme that will stick with you all summer. It's been almost exactly two years since Don't Trip dropped, and we'll take whatever Aquakultre has to offer en route to his next project. — Holly Gordon

'Death Valley High,' Orville Peck feat. Beck

"Cigarette burns on my black Levi's/ Vegas gonna put my name up in lights tonight," sings Orville Peck as his booming baritone voice rings out on "Death Valley High." The song, the latest from his upcoming album Stampede, is a delicious ode to Sin City's debauchery. Beck's falsetto harmonies offer up a warm contrast to Peck's deep drawl, but the two play off of each other as the track rips along. Beck's splashes of rock send electric jolts through the song, as he details his and Peck's exploits on the bridge: "Casino zombies in a two-way mirror/ branch manager hanging from a chandеlier," he sings with a wink. The lyrics come alive in the track's accompanying music video as the two singers gamble at a neon-lit, glittery kitschy casino where Sharon Stone and drag star Gigi Goode make cameo appearances.  — Natalie Harmsen

'Takes One to Know One,' the Beaches

Hot off the heels of earning their first Polaris Music Prize short list nomination, Toronto rockers the Beaches have released a new single titled "Takes One to Know One." The track, which reunites the band with the songwriting and production team behind their album, Blame My Ex, is a victory lap of sorts as they belatedly throw their hat in the song of the summer ring. "Takes One to Know One" is an honest look at the messy layers that are unraveled as a relationship advances. And while songs often focus on one person's faults or problems, singer Jordan Miller explores her own culpability here, too. "Anti-social, maladjusted/ Non-committal, can't be trusted," she sings before admitting "that's so us." These moments of vulnerability can make or break a relationship, especially in its early stages. When you find someone who not only sees and accepts your messiness, but can perhaps "one up" you at times, then maybe you've found your match. — Melody Lau 

'Trust Issues,' Lubalin

Lubalin's third single of the year is an inner monologue that delves into the self-destructive rumination that often hinders fulfilment in our personal relationships. Underpinning this entire alt-pop song is a vocal sample, "You can't stop me now," usually a declaration of confident defiance, but here, it's reinterpreted as a mantra of unhealthy obsession. "There I go, overthinking it again," Lubalin begins, "let it go, let it go, feel it slipping in my hands." Like a swarm of insects, the highly detailed drumming that pervades the song is a manifestation of the trust issues referenced in the song's title, and Lubalin's compulsive self-doubt: "Sometimes I feel like I'm too much for anybody/ Even myself." — Robert Rowat

To hear more about these standout songs, tune in to CBC Music Mornings every Thursday (Canada-wide) with producer Ryan Chung and host Saroja Coelho, and Here and Now with Gill Deacon every Wednesday afternoon (in Toronto). Both are available via CBC Listen.