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Y/NY/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.  

Y: Syd, ā€œBad Dream/No Looking Backā€ā€” These two-songs-in-one were released earlier this week to announce an upcoming project from Syd, a ā€œfeature soundtrackā€ (whatever that means) called Always Never Home, due out September 9. It sounds like that’ll be two full-lengths from Syd in 2017 (we raved about her solo debut Fin when it was released in February), which means we’re just too damn lucky. This track, particularly the longer ā€œNo Looking Backā€ section is more carnal sweetness from The Internet leader (ā€œWe only kiss when we fuckin’ / So we don’t get too attachedā€) over a sample of Jodeci’s ā€œWhat About Us.ā€ Syd’s given us an embarrassment of riches already and the ā€œfeature soundtrackā€ isn’t even out for another two weeks. —Rich Juzwiak

Sure, why not?: French Montana featuring Mariah Carey and Swae Lee, ā€œUnforgettable (Mariah Carey Remix)ā€ā€” Maybe just for the sake of attaching herself to a bonafide hit during a years-long commercial rough patch, Mariah jumps on French Montana and Swae Lee’s sublime sonic approximation of summer breeze, ā€œUnforgettable,ā€ and the results are... fine? She’s in airy mode here and her presence makes a compulsively listenable song no more compelling. At the same time, it doesn’t make it less compelling. It’s a minor victory, but at this point, I get the feeling that when it comes to impacting popular music, MC will take what she can get. —RJ

Sorry, babe, but I can’t: Demi Lovato, ā€œTell Me You Love Meā€ — The only Demi Lovato song I am willing to accept into my heart is ā€œCool for the Summerā€ and that’s because I heard it so many times when it came out that it bore its way into my heart and now I can’t get rid of it...like herpes. This song—a jangly, up-tempo number that vacillates between desperate pleading for love and weak reassurances that everything will be all right—sucks. Sorry! —Megan Reynolds

Y: Miguel featuring Travis Scott ā€œSkywalkerā€ā€” The answer to ā€œWhere the hell is Miguel and all his beautiful music?ā€ (for now) is this bass-thick song with a smooth hook and its semi-goofy video—full of neon lights, celebration shots, booze and scenes of Miguel ā€œLuke Skywalk-ing on these hatersā€ in a comfortable silk shirt. I consider this a cool, playful filler as we wait for a full project from him. —Clover Hope

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Y: I’ve been enjoying A$AP Mob’s Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy all day today upon its release, but an early standout is ā€œPlease Shut Up,ā€ with A$AP Rocky, KEY, and Gucci Mane, who all just want everyone to shut the hell up over a rather mournful, tiptoeing little beat. This is my every late summer mood. —Julianne Escobedo Shepherd