New Music Friday
Jan. 23rd, 2021 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunHappy Friday. Woof. I have a lot of links down below, but three videos here at the top. If you're new here, this is my (usually) weekly drop of songs I've been listening to and enjoying this week (or in recent weeks). The last few weeks have been a little strange for me so I've been just collecting songs so these are all from the last like three(?) weeks or so. If you didn't see it, two weeks ago I also talked a bit about my 2020 in music and answered some questions about my process for these posts. As usual, this post is a mix of artists from folk to metal and hopefully you'll find something in here to enjoy.
Emma Ruth Rundle was a recent new discovery for me at the end of last year, I fell in love with the song "Hollywood" and pre-ordered the collaboration with Thou on The Helm of Sorrow EP [Bandcamp]. The EP came out last week and I love it. It's only four songs, but they're all great. I don't know how to classify the collaboration between these two musical acts. Thou is a sludge metal band and ERR is a post-rock, occasionally metal, sometimes just folk rock artist. So I guess if those are things you like, check out this EP.
First is this adorable doddle postal worker from dodie and her new song "Hate Myself". I love pretty much everything about this, dodie's soft vocals, the lyrics and this almost whimsical video about a character building up stamina to be a postal worker in a small British town.
As a bonus, if you like dodie's music, she also recently did this mash-up with some other female artists. This mash-up is dodie's "Cool Girl", Tessa Violet's "Games", Orla Gartland's "Pretending" and Lauren Acquilina's "Swap Places". They've done another of these in the past, same four people but their songs that were popular two years ago. You can watch that one here. If you want to know what kind of female singer-songwriters I like, these four are probably in my top five.
Insecurity mash-up w/dodie, Tessa Violet, Orla Gartland, Lauren Aquilina. The song from Orla is this mash-up is "Pretending" but she's also more recently released a new song, More Like You.
Violet Skies is another new artist for me that showed up thanks to the YouTube algorithm. She's a singer-songwriter from Wales. This is a song session she did with Mahogany, it's a little melancholy. I think there's a part that reminds me a little of Jon Bellion's "All Time Low" but it might just be the repetition. But if you might like this if you liked that.
Lake Street Dive is like a deep love for me. I feel like everytime they have a new song I end up getting stuck on it for a few days at a time. Rachael's voice is just wonderful. I'm sure "Nobody's Stopping You Now" is one of those songs I'm going to end up coming back to again and again like I did with their song "Good Kisser".
And just because I've been collecting songs for this, I'll just throw a bunch of stuff down here as honorable mentions from the the last few weeks. I feeling like I should break these out somehow, so we'll start with some covers and then, break out the rock/metal offers further down.
COVERS
Vintage Trouble - The First Cut is the Deepest (Cat Stevens)
Jonathan Young - Leave Her, Johnny a sea shanty
Violet Orland - Head Like a Hole (NIN cover)
The Hound + The Fox - Evermore (Taylor Swift)
NOT COVERS in order (mostly) from gentle to metal
Alexander Nate - Company
Seether - Fine Again A full band acoustic version
Kings of Leon - The Bandit
Icon for Hire - Last One Standing
Gemini Syndrome - IDK
Architects - Dead Butterflies
Chevelle - Self-Destructor
DRAGONY - Legends Never Die
Moonspell - Common Spells like a pop-up video
Like every week, I hope you find something you like here to listen to for a little while. If you've been digging on a song or band this week, tell me about it, I'd love to check it out. I might always respond, but I do listen to all the stuff you all mention that I haven't heard of before.
Emma Ruth Rundle was a recent new discovery for me at the end of last year, I fell in love with the song "Hollywood" and pre-ordered the collaboration with Thou on The Helm of Sorrow EP [Bandcamp]. The EP came out last week and I love it. It's only four songs, but they're all great. I don't know how to classify the collaboration between these two musical acts. Thou is a sludge metal band and ERR is a post-rock, occasionally metal, sometimes just folk rock artist. So I guess if those are things you like, check out this EP.
First is this adorable doddle postal worker from dodie and her new song "Hate Myself". I love pretty much everything about this, dodie's soft vocals, the lyrics and this almost whimsical video about a character building up stamina to be a postal worker in a small British town.
As a bonus, if you like dodie's music, she also recently did this mash-up with some other female artists. This mash-up is dodie's "Cool Girl", Tessa Violet's "Games", Orla Gartland's "Pretending" and Lauren Acquilina's "Swap Places". They've done another of these in the past, same four people but their songs that were popular two years ago. You can watch that one here. If you want to know what kind of female singer-songwriters I like, these four are probably in my top five.
Insecurity mash-up w/dodie, Tessa Violet, Orla Gartland, Lauren Aquilina. The song from Orla is this mash-up is "Pretending" but she's also more recently released a new song, More Like You.
Violet Skies is another new artist for me that showed up thanks to the YouTube algorithm. She's a singer-songwriter from Wales. This is a song session she did with Mahogany, it's a little melancholy. I think there's a part that reminds me a little of Jon Bellion's "All Time Low" but it might just be the repetition. But if you might like this if you liked that.
Lake Street Dive is like a deep love for me. I feel like everytime they have a new song I end up getting stuck on it for a few days at a time. Rachael's voice is just wonderful. I'm sure "Nobody's Stopping You Now" is one of those songs I'm going to end up coming back to again and again like I did with their song "Good Kisser".
And just because I've been collecting songs for this, I'll just throw a bunch of stuff down here as honorable mentions from the the last few weeks. I feeling like I should break these out somehow, so we'll start with some covers and then, break out the rock/metal offers further down.
COVERS
Vintage Trouble - The First Cut is the Deepest (Cat Stevens)
Jonathan Young - Leave Her, Johnny a sea shanty
Violet Orland - Head Like a Hole (NIN cover)
The Hound + The Fox - Evermore (Taylor Swift)
NOT COVERS in order (mostly) from gentle to metal
Alexander Nate - Company
Seether - Fine Again A full band acoustic version
Kings of Leon - The Bandit
Icon for Hire - Last One Standing
Gemini Syndrome - IDK
Architects - Dead Butterflies
Chevelle - Self-Destructor
DRAGONY - Legends Never Die
Moonspell - Common Spells like a pop-up video
Like every week, I hope you find something you like here to listen to for a little while. If you've been digging on a song or band this week, tell me about it, I'd love to check it out. I might always respond, but I do listen to all the stuff you all mention that I haven't heard of before.
