#MusicMonday Review – January 2025

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#MusicMonday Review – January 2025


#MusicMonday is the hashtag I’ve been utilizing for fairly some time to share music suggestions from up-and-coming artists. Always recent, and all the time completely different, attempting to search for developments earlier than they change into one. You can verify December’s evaluate for extra music.

 

Welcome to a brand new yr. We start a brand new journey around the globe, wanting and listening for brand new sonic horizons on this common language we name music. Give all a pay attention, with a phrase from the artists themselves.
🎧

 

Griseo – Norte

 

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Cuando llueve el frío en los pies
Me provoca buscarte otra vez
Tantos besos que hay que recordar
¿Dónde está tu norte?

 

Y a pesar que estés
A cientos de kilómetros de mi
Te buscaré
Hasta que mi cuerpo no dé, de sí

 

Welcome to the New Year from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with a Latin Ballad that turns up the depth on the finish of the observe. Even if somebody is miles away, a beloved one will search for you till the North turns into South:

 

“It is troublesome to say if Norte was impressed by a single factor, the lyrics communicate in a literal approach the experiences of a long-distance relationship, however the primary inspiration was this sense of mourning in regards to the lack of a beloved one, or the dying of this actuality with out this individual, and from the latter goes Norte and all of the remaining singles to return out, in regards to the levels of mourning.”

 

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Pretty Inside – Life Inside A Jelly Bean

 

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Never actually thought you’d be so proud

that I may by no means see you cry
Tainted image of you face inside a field,

1,000,000 candle lights

 

Cause there’s nothing left do do
What’s inside a jelly bean ?
Drown inside some jelly-o
We’ll be finished earlier than the solar

 

Next cease, Bordeaux, France, for an Emotive Rock observe about understanding love, from the stuff hidden away, to the issues chosen to be shared once more:

 

“At that point, I wanted to write down and report as quick as I may. I wished to seize the primary impression of every music. This is the way in which the entire I Care About You album was conceived.

 

It got here out in a day, probably not interested by what I used to be doing. As for the lyrics, I simply let the stream of consciousness stream behind the microphone which led to this weird jelly bean factor.

Later, as I used to be mixing the music, I discovered what got here out was completely related to what I used to be going by means of: questioning the the absurdity of the perfect romantic love. I imply, human beings can simply get trapped into this factor they known as love, however really not love, simply an idealized romantic dream. Sweet and meaningless, like a jelly bean. I assume this what the entire music is about.”

 

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Small Black Arrows – The British Museum

 

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Tone’s not all the time fact

But it sounds so significantly better from fools
We all drink their blues
And we signal proper on the road

 

Like Robin in reverse
What we do not know all the time appears worse
So we smile and complain
But then we do all of it once more

 

We cross the English Channel all the way in which as much as Manchester, England to hearken to an eclectic Alt Indie duo that may’t preserve schtum about strolling in museums, and seeing the whole lot they do not personal:

 

“We actually have been attempting to present the impression of a journey.

 

A journey by means of life and holding completely different opinions and perhaps altering how you are feeling over time and over your life as you see completely different features of life.

 

So after that realization, all of it made sense and we have been assured it was the correct technique to go for the music and album as an entire. Gradually realizing what we predict and the way it evolves. 🙏🏼

 

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The Silver Spurs – OUTLAW

 

TheSilverSpurs.jpgDon’t you would like you knew

what it’s prefer to be me

A lifetime of crime,

dwelling freely cannot you see

 

You know I saved your life and
what do I get in return
however a damaged physique

and nothing to indicate for it

 

Next flight, vacation spot Brisbane, Australia for an Indie Rock observe with a contact of the Wild West a couple of man who is aware of what he needs to be: somebody you would be fortunate to be respiratory in case you cross paths with him:

 

Outlaw was actually simply us imagining the band in a western about cowboys. I wrote it as a type of champion for not becoming into one field as a musician, however just a few completely different ones.

 

Nothing too deep, simply us attempting to maintain pushing the style of indie rock to include a westernized sound.”

 

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Gold Stars For Everyone – Parallax

 

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We received misplaced
In the wilderness
For so lengthy
We forgot act

There’s part of us
That by no means got here again
No, it by no means got here again

Parallax

 

Our final cease on this first journey of the yr is Brooklyn, NY for a guitar pushed Indie observe about dwelling with those we will vibe with, questioning if we’re nonetheless younger sufficient to like:

“Parallax was borne from the sense of fractured actuality we felt within the Pandemic when time appeared to maneuver each quick and gradual.

 

There was an actual feeling of shared loss as we sat helplessly withdrawn in our tiny teams watching the world crumble. We found new selves whereas faraway from the context of our on a regular basis lives and reemerged without end modified.

 

Even years later, the menace feels prescient. We really feel the hazards of slipping right into a routine that might be ripped away right away, and the query stays: can we ever come again… and do we actually need to?”

 

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#MusicMonday 2024

 

We say goodbye to 2024 with this yr’s compilation. 100 titles from authentic artists overlaying all forms of genres, representing the a number of developments unbiased artists are proud to ascertain. Have a pay attention:

 

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