Flea on trumpet, The New Pornographers, Stereolab, Snail Mail, U2 - New music variety

The latest tracks added to our New Music bin:

• Flea - Traffic Lights (feat. Tom Yorke) - The Chili Peppers bassist switches to his first love, jazz trumpet, on his first solo album, Honora. Most tracks are instrumentals, but this one features Radiohead's vocalist. 
• The New Pornographers - Ballad of the Last Payphone - Another cut from the just-released The Former Site Of. Paste calls the LP melancholy, with a lyrical theme of "staring down the current state of the world."
• Stereolab - Cloud Land - One of a pair of new tracks just released by the London band. Stereogum calls it "a vast epic with awesomely wormy synths and cool percussive breaks."  
• Snail Mail - Tractor Beam - From Ricochet, the third album from Lindsey Jordan's project. She says this song uses "alien abduction as a metaphor for lost time because of disassociation."
• U2 - Song of the Future - This song from the protest EP Days of Ash honors 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh, an Iranian schoolgirl fatally beaten by security forces after taking part in a Woman, Life, Freedom demonstration in 2022.