New Music: YEИDRY
“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.”
Blues Pills – Low Road
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.”
SHY Martin – can I call you back?
“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.”
New Music: Wild Rivers
New Music: Leena Regan
“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’.
Drea Rose – Foreign
Ivan Ave – Hope/Nope
New Music: Peter Katz
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.”
New Music: Jaclyn Manfredi
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.”
Jonny Craig – On God
You Know Who x The BLK LT$ – They Don’t Know
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.
New Music: Darla Jade
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.
Aaron Smith – Brother
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.”
Fjer – First Place
New Music: Larik
New Music: Sam Bartells
An intense sound with an incredibly raw and compelling vocal.
“The song was recorded in Nashville on my last trip, about getting clean and my last rock bottom.”
Cimo Fränkel – Happier Before
A beautifully crafted RnB release from Cimo Fränkel, brimming with melancholy and heartfelt lyrics.
New Music: MICKY
New Music: Charlie Jones
To think a talent who’s only 20-years old could create something so intensely powerful, epic and dark, all the while still feeling like a great pop song, is something quite special. A very exciting name to watch out for.