Jon Vinyl's in-between-seasons slow jam, and 4 other songs you need to hear this week

Each week, CBC Music producers come together to highlight Canada's best new tracks.

This week, we got hooked on new songs from:

• Ducks Ltd.
• Jon Vinyl.
• TRS.
• BadBadNotGood.
• Chlöe.

Scroll down to find out why you need to hear them, too.

What new Canadian tunes are you currently obsessed with? Share them with us on Twitter @CBCMusic.

Hit play on our Songs You Need to Hear stream, filled with songs that CBC Music's producers have chosen for their playlists, and tune into CBC Music Mornings every Thursday to hear CBC Music's Jess Huddleston and Saroja Coelho reveal which of these tracks is the standout new Canadian song.

'Under the Rolling Moon,' Ducks Ltd.

Ducks Ltd. is the duo of Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis, who bonded over their love of '80s indie pop and started writing and recording together in 2018. Their cheerful, jangly, guitar-driven songs are often happily at odds with lyrics that probe dark themes — "contemporary society in decline," as their bio puts it. That contradiction fuels their latest single, "Under the Rolling Moon," a high-energy song about "trying to be there for a friend who is in a moment of crisis," McGreevy says. The video, directed by Ambar Navarro, has a low-budget, mid-'80s esthetic that, according to the band, "dovetails with our own inherent awkwardness." Watch for Ducks Ltd.'s debut album, Modern Fiction, due out Oct. 1. Fans in Toronto can attend an album launch at the Garrison that evening. — Robert Rowat

'Deflect,' Jon Vinyl

As we officially begin the transition out of summer and into fall, rising Toronto R&B singer Jon Vinyl has crafted the ideal soundtrack with "Deflect," a stripped-down guitar ballad embellished with his and Naja Wilson's effortless, wandering vocals. Wilson, an accomplished vocalist who has sung with the likes of Daniel Caesar, Dolly Parton and Rascal Flatts, uses her twirling soprano to dance around Vinyl's words about indecision in love. This in-between season can similarly drum up a bit of ambivalence — what to wear, where to go from here — and a gold-tinged slow song like this one is a fine reminder to take a beat, and take it all in. — Jess Huddleston

'Respectfully,' TRS

It's recently become common internet parlance to tack "respectfully" onto the end of any damning, incisive or downright nasty statement, as a means to assuage any potential hurt feelings. Penning a hot take or a spicy opinion on Twitter? Throw a "respectfully" on it to soften the blow. Leading up to the release of her new single, Vancouver artist TRS posted a description on Instagram explaining that the adverb is "used to express some disrespectful shit in a respectful manner" — and she delivers on that promise. The muted, distorted production lets her airy voice float on the track, and there's a casual aloofness to the way she drops lyrics like, "I can tell you ain't real like the ones you came with." TRS is calling out everyone on this song: scene-obsessed posers, potential romantic partners ("Tempted to touch but don't get it twisted ... I cannot love you"), really anyone who's a little high and mighty and can stand to be knocked down a few pegs. At the same time, she celebrates her crew of real ones because you're "only as solid as the ones you hang with," after all. The music video, directed by Andrea Nazarian, features the singer with her "solid" gang of pals, posted up in different spots around Vancouver, carrying on and acting up. — Kelsey Adams

'Beside April,' BadBadNotGood

Experimental jazz trio BadBadNotGood have a new album coming out next month, and new single "Beside April" has us eager for the full project. Co-written with Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai, who also added his "fabulous strings," as the Toronto band tweeted, "Beside April" has a refreshing feeling of movement, the welcoming guitar and percussion opening up to a swell of adventure once the strings and horns join in. The video, directed by Camille Summers-Valli, was inspired by the 1878 photographic short film (the first of its kind) Horse in Motion, according to NME, which you can see imaginatively recreated in "Beside April" with a strobe light and a Lipizaner stallion at the tail end of the video. Both the song and video are so cinematic, they feel like a trailer for a larger project. Whether that's true or not, keep an eye out for Talk Money, due out Oct. 8. — Holly Gordon

'Have Mercy,' Chlöe 

While Beyoncé continues to reign as one of music's biggest acts, the search for an heir to her throne has been going on for a while. It makes sense that one of the frontrunners would be the pop star's own mentee, Chlöe Bailey, one-half of sister duo Chlöe x Halle. Last week marked the debut of Bailey's solo project, and her grand entrance had some help courtesy of two of Canada's busiest creatives right now. "Have Mercy," a track produced by Fort Erie-born Murda Beatz, arrives with a music video directed by Karena Evans — interestingly enough the same pair Drake turned to in 2018 for his smash hit "Nice For What." Just like that single, on "Have Mercy" Murda Beatz has crafted a bold beat with a sample of TT the Artist and Uniiqu3's 2018 song "Girls off the Chain," using its "booty so big" refrain as the foundation for Bailey's own unabashed sex positivity to shine atop. Evans brings that vision to life with a sorority- and medusa-themed video that proves Bailey's Beyoncé-level bonafides through dance, style and sheer I-don't-give-a-damn confidence. Bailey, who rose to fame at 13, has been criticized for being too sexy in videos and photos posted on social media, but she is not letting detractors get to her. Instead, she's living by her mentor's words: "I'm a grown woman/ I can do whatever I want." — Melody Lau