This new indie pop release from Dead Emerson gives me feels of nostalgia and melancholy that are pretty sweet to listen to.
Dead Emerson – 24
Category: Music
New Music: Deyaz
SULKA, Tue Track, Khal Allan – Usagt
A really interesting mix of Danish hip hop and dreamy indie, underlined with a tone of rawness.
Watch: BOSCO – Piano Song
“I’m just giving you a world to put the song in. I’m treating the visuals more like a commercial to the song, than a video.”
Mark Diamond – Rita
It’s hard to not get emotional listening to this song from Mark Diamond. And the story behind the lyrics are also quite captivating…
“My grandma recently passed away and I had written this song a few months ago before it had happened. She had a really insane life. Grew up an orphan, was married 3 times, gambled her life away and left this journey with a few hundred dollars in her bank account. She was always laughing and always singing. She use to tell me it ran it our blood to be singers.”
Lunar Vacation – Unlucky
Jon Olav – Stupid
“In a way this song is about the process of confessing to oneself that you’re a bit of coward in some situations, and maybe specifically when it comes to relationships. It’s not exactly a happy song. But not that sad either really. I guess it’s also about realising that you have some unrealistic expectations when it comes to relationships, and the frustration that comes with it.”
Teyana Taylor – We Got Love (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)
New Music: COBRAH
Track of the week. While there’s been a resurgence of 90’s techno and rave sounds lately, the balance of playing with the past and taking it to the future has not always been great. This though… Damn. It’s electro pop with a ruthless beat structure. Something that takes you hostage and demands your attention. And I am living for it. For a while it’s felt like the innovation from Swedish pop was slowing down – COBRAH might have just changed that.
A.CHAL – Pink Dust
“It’s about that moment of knowing that you’re about to fall in love with someone and knowing that you’re never going to have that moment again.”
Watch: Gia Woods – EGO
“I wrote “Ego” about a past relationship. It felt like a never ending cycle of ego trips and with that comes a lot of power struggles and pettiness. When two people have big egos, there’s almost never a solution. You’re just in a constant state of fighting and ignoring the obvious.”
New Music: The Desert
This four-piece outfit from Bristol delve into a psychedelic indie pop sound with hints of 90’s trip hop. A sound that balances itself between being raw and dark, while also dreamy and ethereal.
Shura – elevator girl (feat. Ivy Sole)
“elevator girl’ is partly inspired by the time I had to get an elevator to my hotel room on the 22nd floor with a first date who I’d only just met in the lobby. When we entered there were other people already in the elevator so we stayed silent because it felt weird to address the awkwardness in front of strangers. But it’s also about the elation of a first date – the fact that it can make you feel kind of high without drugs.”
Watch: Alaina Castillo – ocean waves
New Music: Zoe Wees
“The sickness was stronger than me, and left scars that have become part of my life. Accepting them has taken so much time, but they make me what I am today: a fighter.”
James Blake covering a Billie Eilish song is the dream…
Soleima – Powerslide (Album)
“I’ve adopted the word ‘powerslide’ to represent my loss of control/power over myself and my attempt to regain it. As I started my musical journey as the only female in a 7-piece Danish hip-hop collective, I wanted to incorporate my love for hip-hop into Powerslide. This album is a musical genre-bending hybrid that challenges the traditional musical structures, hooks & melodies in commercial pop music.”
FELIX SANDMAN – BOYS WITH EMOTIONS (James Carter Remix)
“BOYS WITH EMOTIONS is a title and a subject that I have both thought about and talked about for a long time. The inspiration for the song is that I, as both a man and a feminist has considered where I should put my focus to be able to influence in the best way – and what we can do to raise boys right and break the toxic structures and norms in our society. I also wanted it to be a great song that you can dance to – and that you don’t have to think about the message and simply enjoy the song.”
