https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/ba-p/5438903 <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/musicmonday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MusicMonday</A> <EM>is the hashtag&nbsp;I've been using for quite a while to share music recommendations from up-and-coming artists. Always fresh, and always different, trying to look for trends before they become one. You can check</EM> <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2022/bc-p/5431337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Fall season is here! This month, our artists will take us all over the world through the multiple feelings their songs evoke. Let's have a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV><STRONG>Tidal Wave – Sunbleached</STRONG></DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="TidalWave.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146276i153400A90646C0F3/image-dimensions/303x304?v=v2" width="303" height="304" role="button" title="TidalWave.jpg" alt="TidalWave.jpg" /></span>Tomorrow is the last goodbye</EM><BR /><EM>And if you recall</EM><BR /><EM>This is where we met</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>In the space between it all</EM><BR /><EM>I can't look to you</EM><BR /><EM>But now I can see what I have done</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>When all of the letters burn</EM><BR /><EM>After all of the ashes fall</EM><BR /><EM>When will we see each other</EM><BR /><EM>When all the pictures are</EM><BR /><EM>Sunbleached</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="gvxzyvdx aeinzg81 t7p7dqev gh25dzvf ocv3nf92 b6ax4al1 gem102v4 ncib64c9 mrvwc6qr sx8pxkcf f597kf1v cpcgwwas f5mw3jnl ib8x7mpr k1z55t6l oog5qr5w tes86rjd pbevjfx6">We start with a mellow Art Rock track from Toronto, CA. Truly atmospheric, the song will make you look for those old photos you may still have</SPAN>:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I remembered looking at my old books on a shelf that had lost their colour. Realizing that it was years of them sitting in the sun it made me think of an image of a photo of two people left on a wall. A lot of my lyrics are post apocalyptic and that’s kind of where the thought of due to a huge event things would be left behind to be exposed to the elements later to be found by potentially those people again.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The idea I had in my head was of a couple that broke up only to find a weathered photo again wondering if they’d ever see each other."</P> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3RP8tbayd6DDBBM214ycNG:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3RP8tbayd6DDBBM214ycNG:small</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Juan Pablo Pardo – Mariana</STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="JuanPabloPardo.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146277i9F93C302B6BE912C/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="JuanPabloPardo.jpg" alt="JuanPabloPardo.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>Debo enamorado yo de estar</EM><BR /><EM>No te puedo dejar de pensar</EM><BR /><EM>Cada vez que te volteo a ver me haces</EM><BR /><EM>suspirar</EM><BR /><EM>Solo llegaste y ya eras tan especial</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Oye y nunca vayas a pensar</EM><BR /><EM>Qué yo te vaya a dejar de amar</EM><BR /><EM>No te lo imaginas cada día te quiero más</EM><BR /><EM>Y eso yo te lo voy a demostrar</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">From nostalgia, let's go now to Puebla, Mexico for an enthusiastic love song that loses steam at the end (for a reason):</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I composed this song many years ago to my ex-girlfriend Mariana. As our relationship began I started composing the song and I finished it when we were braking up. That's why the songs starts with a happy melody and rhythm that reminds the excitement of the beginning of any relation, and it finishes like a ballad, which reminds the sadness of an ending.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">At the end, I tried to transform Mariana, the person, to Mariana, the concept of the teenage love."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:5nUxDk0GBiTmwt2sfwxIc7:small" target="_self">spotify:track:5nUxDk0GBiTmwt2sfwxIc7:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <STRONG>The Inflorescence – The Button</STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <P><EM>Why does it feel<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="TheInflorescence.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146278i403DC5647CF9FDB5/image-dimensions/303x304?v=v2" width="303" height="304" role="button" title="TheInflorescence.jpg" alt="TheInflorescence.jpg" /></span></EM><BR /><EM>Like you’re just a dream</EM><BR /><EM>Slipping so far away from me</EM><BR /><EM>I can’t seem to escape this</EM><BR /><EM>All I can do is try to hide</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>I don’t think you understand me</EM><BR /><EM>I look into your eyes and you can’t recognize me</EM><BR /><EM>Will we meet again in another life or</EM><BR /><EM>Would I just pass you by</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">From breakup, we now go to San Diego, CA for a Pop Punk track full of heartache. Would you push the button and forget?:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The song is actually based off the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The idea of erasing someone entirely because the pain of what wasn’t was really the thing that inspired me the most. It’s a heartbreaking thing but something I’m sure everyone wishes they could do sometimes."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:0f4Vo0mBbM5nIiF869OZfl:small" target="_self">spotify:track:0f4Vo0mBbM5nIiF869OZfl:small</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Sleeping Haze – Acedia</STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><STRONG><STRONG><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="SleepingHaze.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146279iC3C1A9A675969E3E/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SleepingHaze.jpg" alt="SleepingHaze.jpg" /></span></STRONG></STRONG> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <P><EM>We’ve been stuck for so long</EM><BR /><EM>Just keep going on and on</EM><BR /><EM>A circular path is trampled down from our mindless running around</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Come see the apathetic show</EM><BR /><EM>Where everyone pretends to be in control</EM><BR /><EM>The curtain cuts you in two</EM><BR /><EM>When it’s over there’s only you</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">From&nbsp;brokenheartedness, let's go now to <SPAN class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x10flsy6 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x41vudc x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u">Gothenburg, Sweden for some Alternative Rock with a different kind of grief. Is there a fix that will let you go? Band member Per answers</SPAN>:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It’s basically about a time where we just felt like we were stuck as a band, as the first line of the lyrics says.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />The song I think started with Henry’s guitar-melody and thought the feeling of that melody captured the state that we were in, so it seemed best to use that to our advantage and actually write about it. Of course I mixed in some of my personal experiences too, but I think in a very broad strokes kinda way, so it’s also very easily relatable for everyone.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />Then there’s the thing about depression connected with musicianship, with the “the curtain cuts you into” line, where I at the time felt like the live shows were when I could feel alive, only to start sinking again after the show’s over and the high from the moment has passed.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />It’s not as drab as it may sound though, we love music and making music together for the most part, but sometimes you just get frustrated trying to make things work, since the practical parts of life easily can get in the way."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1gwI4vrcDNxNpVBnWL9CD6:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1gwI4vrcDNxNpVBnWL9CD6:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG>Baby Shower – Worms</STRONG></P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>10 days without you in my reach<span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="BabyShower.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/146280i77AB41FEE037B6E4/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="BabyShower.jpg" alt="BabyShower.jpg" /></span></EM><BR /><EM>And I slept with someone new for each</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Woke the baby and now she's screaming </EM><BR /><EM>I'm train spotting not daytime dreaming</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Got a little devil on my back </EM><BR /><EM>Cold sweats and panic attacks </EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Might be nice to be healed and mended </EM><BR /><EM>But I just want a toxic codependent</EM></P> <P><EM>Things do not look good for me</EM></P> <P><EM>&nbsp;</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify">From depression, let's end this month's selection with snarky optimism from Melbourne, Australia. Oh me, oh my, I think I'm buried alive <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":musical_notes:">🎶</span>:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"There's a whole other set of lyrics that we used to play it with and had to replace every verse on the day of recording cos they were a bit too... controversial... and lyrically it was extremely obvious who they were about which was great therapy for me but I didn't want to like hurt anyone too much if they heard the song you know.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The chorus I wrote years and years ago and used to be a much slower tempo we would play with a piano accordion. The chorus is about like... I guess sarcastic like hey I'm totally f'd but look at the bright side I'm gonna be a great meal for a bunch of worms.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Then new verses are about I guess just intrusive thoughts you can't get rid of and trying unhealthy ways to do anything to shake them."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2PCnZH5WJYbkMyWjcRb6XG:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2PCnZH5WJYbkMyWjcRb6XG:small</A>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P><STRONG>Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist</STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:41:50 GMT osornios 2023-03-22T13:41:50Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/ba-p/5438903 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="4.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/154072iE7DBA85F892066EA/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="4.png" alt="4.png" /></span></P> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:41:50 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/ba-p/5438903 osornios 2023-03-22T13:41:50Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5443136#M8888 <P>Why did Spotify remove the "New Releases"&nbsp; section of the application? How do I explore an untailored list of new music now?</P> Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:37:28 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5443136#M8888 supdhupp 2022-10-12T00:37:28Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5445485#M8889 <P>How can I apply for next month for either the music blog Shoutout or a performance. I have composed and collaborated on multi-million songs on Spotify.</P> Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:02:26 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5445485#M8889 seeseebeats 2022-10-17T13:02:26Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5456711#M8890 <P data-unlink="true">There a lot of pretty impressive playlists that I came across while searching for playlist to enjoy as the yuletide seasons gets closers. Websites like&nbsp;Vibesxclusive music&nbsp;&nbsp;made it to the list of playlist creators I loved and now I'm certainly going to add this Spotify playlist which means I have a bunch of songs to enjoy from now till the end of the year going forward.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I just love this. Thanks.&nbsp;</P> Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:31:01 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5456711#M8890 Naijahitsongs 2022-11-12T17:31:01Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5458087#M8891 <P>Hey <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/23939880">@seeseebeats</a>, check <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Discovery-Promo/Artists-Wanted-Edition-No-7-Submissions/m-p/5457440" target="_self">this post</A> for more info.</P> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:57:27 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-September-2022/bc-p/5458087#M8891 osornios 2022-11-15T13:57:27Z