Stick With Me

"This Is Icona Pop"Icona Pop2013, TEN/Big OutshineCaroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo met at a party one night in 2009. A few weeks later, they formed Icona Pop. They bring dwell in provable soul-sister character to their first album: There's "Girlfriend," a poppy retooling of Tupac's "Me and My Girlfriend" that's about loving a best friend preferably of a romantic united. Also? A trifling tune you might take on heard of called "I Be fond of It," a brutish ode to ditching an ex in a way that feels above like peeling open a pi~nata full of candy than dismantling a relationship. The ride-or-die platonic love is clearest in "We Got the World," which gives the brush-off to individuality who won't let a pal's freak ensign fly. Hjelt and Jawo's music is made for you and your friends to noise set down to. Put this slab on at your succeeding be dead to the world party and no one will sleep. -Hazel "Ooooooohhh On the TLC Tip"TLC1991, LaFace/AristaTLC's launching introduced an all-girl flavor like no gathering before it. The trio wore sloppy stuff, talked sincerely about (safe) sex, and championed female agency. This slab was an incentive into that world, aka the "TLC Tip." The singing part communicate sovereign power-heck, constant the song titles do (see: "Bad By In person, This Is How It Hardship be Varnished," and "Depend on In person")-but it's beneficial that T-Boz, Chilli, and No more Eye in addition to headquarters strength in each option. If you've ever wondered how TLC became one of the greatest extent successful girl groups of all time, harmonize to this slab. -Chanel "Ramones Mania"Ramones1988, SireThis congress of the Ramones best-known songs, set down with some B-sides and unreleased tracks, is a great introduction to the band-and pop punk in general. It's in addition to the rigorous confirmation for sagging out with your best friend(s). I enlighten for example my BFFs and me take on listened to it in cars, cranked it in bedrooms and basements, and filled total houses with the incantation, "Hey, ho, let's go." Current are a couple of slower tracks (like "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"), but for the greatest extent part, this is clear, "Bop 'Til You Surge"-type mania. Fraud it with your person and pogo yourselves foolish. -Stephanie "My Nitty-gritty"Chrome Sparks2011, self-released"My Nitty-gritty" is the mode of gathering that's easy to get gone astray in. It's full of hypnotic, slow melodies and good character. All and sundry song blurs into the succeeding in a way that puts me into a indefinite sort of trance. It's an experience that borders on air of secrecy, you guys. I submit listening to it from initiate to terminate, rather on a night prod, having the status of zilch to boot is upsetting you and everything seems doable. -Mads "Ecstasy"Girls at Our Best!1981, Content CentenaryThis gathering is above than just a fact to fun. It's in addition to about rupture down attention of how girls can and "necessity" find achievement. I love the part of "Violent Boyfriends" having the status of singer Jo Evans croons, "I encouragement you don't think I'm a freak / That I forever take on to fall in love subsequent to a week." But bound to be, she doesn't resound to care what we think about her ever-changing cast of beaus. Covering the slab, it's friendship that comes out on top. "Holding hands with my best friend, don't take on to possess till sinister," she sings in "Ecstasy," an anthem for girls who do what they want, constant if it's "bad." Evans gets that a girl is at her best having the status of she has her best friend's fling in hers. -Hazel "American Idiot"Inclement Day2004, RepriseIn seventh brand, zilch josh to me as cruelly as Inclement Day's epic and conceptual reply gathering "American Idiot". I loved its showy guitars and beat drums and Billie Joe Armstrong's grandiose scream, but the record's foundation pleasantness was "Jesus of Suburbia." In the song, Jesus is one of a choice of runaways who consign their downtrodden homes and rounded suburban lives for a metropolitan area that they can try to find everything better to bad buy in. Their stories are told in Fancy, multi-act songs about love, addiction, and strong views. For me, the gathering was a personal leave from my own suburban nervousness. In 2009 it was familiar into a balanced, and I clearly submit the cast video recording, too-the fitting vocals make the already-complex songs constant grander. -Brittany "No Mythologies to Stalk"Mo2014, Chess Club/RCA WinnerIn advance we vanished for alike colleges, this gathering brought my best friend and I together in a way that no option might take on. These songs will forever bear in mind me of her, no matter how far prohibited we are from each option. Regular having the status of Mo's singing part hint at breakups or blatancy, at hand is a stable flow of fortifying girl power. Her words are lighthearted, suspenseful, and fierce all at subsequent to, with lines like, "Enemy, your venom is erotic but dishonorable. I enlighten the void's been mean, but songs are still on the radio, to go, to let us enlighten we're not unaided." -Mads "Pussy Whipped"Swimming suit Zoom1993, Zoom Gem StarsSwimming suit Kill's launching slab is full of blood, dribble, and venom. It's one of my greatest extent wonderful albums to harmonize to having the status of I need to feel empowered, or to noise set down to having the status of I'm in need of meaningful anger/frustration/rage greatest. But it's in addition to a study of female friendships. "Queer She" may be about an internal work hard, but it helped me end items with a long-time friend, and "Rebel Girl" is the topic song to my very best friendship. "For Tammy Rae" is a softer, sweet song about unpeel your arsenal several your BFF and pretending to own the world. The total slab is a annotation of how vital girl love is, heart-wise. -Stephanie "The Finishing of All Matter"Rilo Kiley2002, Saddle CoveMy best friend and I were gone astray subsequent to. Our hearts were being scruffy to shreds at the reach the summit of identical time, so we holed up in my room, largely howling. Something stung, but we headquarters minister to in each option and the impossibly relevant songs of "The Finishing of All Matter". This gathering wasn't just our soundtrack: It was a ball that limited to a small area our reservations and thoughts. Jenny Lewis's sweet aperture sang about our struggles calculate simultaneously serving as a source of borrowed encouragement. We respected this slab as everything that resonated with us exclusively, and together. It came to speak for that in turmoil time, so by a long way so that I can still dictation my friend today and say, "I'm listening to the "The Finishing of All Matter", and she'll enlighten what that itinerary. In advance long, she'll be natural ability to see that I'm OK. -Meagan Cry Is for the FliesLe Butcherettes2014, Nadie BlamelessWith I extreme play on "Cry Is For the Flies", and the song "Sear the Layer" starts, I feel like I necessity consign a note telling my loved ones that I won't be back for a calculate. It's an emotional, punk-rock adventure. Le Butcherettes' upright is bewitching, and singer Teri Gender Bender's singing part take on an fine surface. She is like a mystic poet, laying her nub and mind out for the world to see. "Cry Is For the Flies" plays with my nub strings in any case. (It in addition to skin texture guest appearances by Shirley Manson and Henry Rollins.) I'm gonna say it-this is my pick for THE gathering of the year! -Bianca