Add to playlist: the anxiety-ridden sugar rush of Tiffany Day and the week’s best new tracks

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Key context: <p>Day’s latest album Halo is all high-energy exhaustion, injected with a crushing electroclash chaos that illuminates her insecurities in bright neon</p><p><strong>From</strong> Los Angeles<br><strong>Recommended</strong> <strong>if you like</strong> Slayyyter, Charli xcx, Underscores<br><strong>Up next</strong> <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tiffany-day-halo/">Halo</a> out now. UK and Ireland tour starts in December</p><p>Right now popstar breakthrough and burnout are a hair’s breadth from one another. Enter Tiffany Day, a Wichita-raised artist who first went viral in 2017 when a video of her singing Hallelujah on a school trip blew up online. She spent the subsequent years unsuccessfully chipping away at building on that virality, cycling through acoustic guitar covers and bedroom R&amp;B. Only by channeling her frustrations into this year’s anxiety-ridden sugar rush Halo did Day finally regain her early momentum.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/07/add-to-playlist-tiffany-day-and-the-weeks-best-new-tracks">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.