A raw yet polished blend of dance and pop.
“This project is a chronological diary of true events of my past relationship. “Wake Up” is the smoke and mirrors and foggy / blind view scope that I perceived as truth at that time. Thinking that our problems were minor and could be fixed.“
The Danish RnB kid returns with a short, but beautifully crafted release.
“It’s a story about neglecting love. Love for which you would do anything not to let it slip away.”
“‘Running Away’ was written during an emotionally turbulent time in my life. Finding someone I had a strong connection with brought up emotions I had never felt so intensely. It’s exciting and new, but also overwhelming. I wasn’t sure if my feelings were fully reciprocated and I was too afraid to ask. The song is a representation of how I overthought and tormented myself over my feelings.”
“The first verse is based off of an internal conflict of an external situation; wishing you could see the future before you make a decision. You know that this girl will most likely be bad for you, but the lust and curiosity is killing you. She ends up driving you crazy. Good or bad, you ask? You decide.”
“When I was two years old and my mother was twenty-six, she left me in Santo Domingo with my grandma and aunties and went to Italy to find a new job. A year later, she returned and brought me back to Italy with her to start our new life. Many immigrant mothers leave their children to go find better opportunities; but while they may end up missing special years of motherhood, it’s because they’re trying to be the best parent they can be, working hard for their child’s future. ‘Nena’ is about a mother sending her daughter a blessing from afar; a blessing that she’ll find a way to live her best life even in such hard circumstances.”
The Swedish rockers return with another big release that’s set to get your blood pumping!
“We wrote ‘Low Road’ about being your own worst enemy. About running from your own demons only to realise that you can’t, because the problem is inside of yourself. ‘Low Road’ is maybe one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written, filled with the brutalness of the human mind, that can be both vicious and lost.”
“I was never good at talking about my feelings so I wrote them down instead. When I felt sad, me and my mum wrote letters to each other about it. So expressing myself through songs came pretty naturally for me.”
“The song poured out of me as a response to a text message I received from an extremely casual fling, passively expressing that he was maybe starting to catch feelings after nearly a year of hanging out once every couple of months. One precise and dramatic eye roll later, I slung myself over to my keyboard, started playing this melancholy little chord progression, and just sang whatever words and melody flowed out, which is exactly what you hear on the final track.”
Taken from the 5-song project, ‘The Melancholy Mind’.
A Canadian singer/songwriter who’s crafted a new record after miraculously suffering from an accidental drop off a cliff; and experience that inspired him to take a new approach to music. And the result is quite wonderful to enjoy.
“I feel like my music in the past, in a way, was so demanding of you to, ‘just wait for the cello to come in’ as opposed to ‘you can just feel this.’ There’s so much that I’ve put into the lyrics, and I’m so proud of every single word on the record, but this time you can just have an experience with it musically. And that’s exciting to me, that I can make something where, hopefully, the experience of it is not just about me.”
Mellow soul-pop.
“Lost Me is about having the willpower to finally realise the relationship you’re in is a toxic situation, and realising you deserve much better.”
Soulful disco to kickstart the long weekend (not that you’d notice if you’re in a country with a lockdown), here’s a fresh vibe which is guaranteed make you feel good.
One of those power-pop songs that you just won’t stop listening on repeat. It fits the genre standard pretty safely, but executes it really well; a proper banger that deserves a listen.
A fragile yet utterly mesmerising release from Aaron Smith.
“Brother is a song about addiction. It is based on a story that I had been told and felt I could relate parts of that story back to myself and some of the struggles myself and loved ones may have faced over the years. Addiction is a scary topic that can affect anyone in any walk of life, whether it is drugs, alcohol or anything else – it feels like a bit of a taboo subject but is something I feel strongly about and felt I wanted to address. It can consume peoples minds to the point of no return.”
