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article #MusicMonday Review - November 2022 in The Blog Vault https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/ba-p/5467972 <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 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-October-2022/bc-p/5467124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Indie or Punk? Punk or Indie? Let's have fun traveling the world in a friendly showdown between cutting edge examples both have to offer. Let's have a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P> </P> <DIV><STRONG>Igaf Sequoia – Trap Door</STRONG></DIV> <P> </P> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="IgafSequoia.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/148902i2772782F9213A343/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="IgafSequoia.jpg" alt="IgafSequoia.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>Everyone wants to be king</EM><BR /><EM>In a world full of powerful men</EM><BR /><EM>It doesn't work that way</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>The wheel of fortune it spins</EM><BR /><EM>It's rigged you'll never win</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Like a slot machine in sin city</EM><BR /><EM>I know you think you can</EM><BR /><EM>but you'll never win, you'll never win</EM></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </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">Our musical trip begins in Los Angeles, CA with a calm Indie Folk song, reflective of a familiar garden full of secrets. Just hold on to me<SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">:</SPAN></SPAN><BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Almost all of our songs are derived through a composite of inspiration. Both instrumental harmonies and personal experiences inform this song in particular. Song writing, from the perspective of the lyricist, is a fluid mixture of poetry, memory and dreams.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The lyrics for this song were a spontaneous emotional response to the culmination of instruments and harmonies as they presented themselves. The lyrics wrote themselves in response to the vibrations. Musically as a band that has always been guitar first and then layered with instrumentation, for this song we flipped it and had my guitar part translated and recorded on keyboards first and then layered instrumentation from there to try and create a separate sound from our previous catalog of songs.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Generally speaking the vast majority of our songs thematically touch on our experiences with the drug addiction, idealism and heartbreak of our youth and reconciling that against growing older, getting sober, and becoming parents."</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:0kwXPupO2ZGQzDgPx7ChA5:small" target="_self">spotify:track:0kwXPupO2ZGQzDgPx7ChA5:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Pat Chow – Noxious Weed</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="PatChow.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/148903i55679D01DD305765/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="PatChow.jpg" alt="PatChow.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>There's seasons greetings</EM><BR /><EM>And reasons fleeting</EM><BR /><EM>To get on from day to day</EM><BR /><EM>But that summertime and all the sun shiny glitter</EM><BR /><EM>Mesmerizes the heart of me</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>We will continue on with our lives</EM><BR /><EM>The sun will give and take</EM><BR /><EM>The sun will shine</EM><BR /><EM>We'll all get on with it</EM><BR /><EM>Get on with it</EM><BR /><EM>With our lives in the summertime</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="location secondaryText">From Indie Folk, we now fly all the way to Perth, Australia</SPAN> for an Indie Punk jammy track that takes us through an all-season journey of a toxic seed you'd regret to plant:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I wrote this song on the 1st of January 2019. It was summer time and I wanted to write a summer song. It's about the good times you have with friends and reflecting on that while realizing the good times are almost over. I was at the end of my tether of a silly season bender.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The second verse wrote itself using the rest of the seasons and a dash of self depreciation. The refrain <EM>we will continue with our lives</EM> is about how life goes on regardless of how you feel or what you want, things just continue to happen and they happen to you and you'll get on with it one way or another, with joy or begrudgingly."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:7j6nBx9e05JkVXVzZ60UMK:small" target="_self">spotify:track:7j6nBx9e05JkVXVzZ60UMK:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <STRONG>Kikker – Trash</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="Kikker.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/148904iA87421FD31D15C08/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="Kikker.jpg" alt="Kikker.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM> </EM></P> <P><EM>Be trash<BR />Go home<BR />Be garbage<BR />Alone</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1bwzh9t r-4qtqp9 r-poiln3 r-1b7u577 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" data-testid="UserLocation"><SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Staying with the Punk vibe, let's earn more flyer miles traveling to Swansea, Wales for some fast-paced, hard-edged melodic, rebellious Garage Frog Rock</SPAN></SPAN>:</P> <P> </P> <P>"Lyrically, the track is about frustration; about feeling stuck, and feeling that you’re unable to change anything. It’s about repeating cycles and feeling unable to break out of them, or feeling unable to cause meaningful change."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:0MlRVejX65bu6I5o7r4yHk:small" target="_self">spotify:track:0MlRVejX65bu6I5o7r4yHk:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>The Volts – The Less I Think I Know</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="TheVolts.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/148905iDBF7E4D7B8D5EF5E/image-dimensions/303x304?v=v2" width="303" height="304" role="button" title="TheVolts.jpg" alt="TheVolts.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>But time goes on and on</EM></DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-left" dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>Where’s the place it all went wrong</EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>One day it’s there the next it’s gone </EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>You’ve got to keep on keeping on</EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"> </DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>Just goes to show</EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>The more I think the less I think I know</EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>And even though </EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"><EM>It’s been so long I’ll miss you when you go</EM></DIV> <DIV dir="auto" style="border-color: #ffffff;"> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">We move up north to West Lothian, Scotland for a straight up Indie track that knows it:</SPAN> when nothing seems to sink in, it can make you feel like sinking:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The song's not really based on one experience in particular but more so about looking back on different things in the past and realizing how little you know about them and how differently you would handle them if they happened now."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:4Dk4u3xMRJ27MzqLegVC4l:small" target="_self">spotify:track:4Dk4u3xMRJ27MzqLegVC4l:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Hausers – Chairoplane</STRONG></P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P> </P> <EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="Hausers.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/148906iDC5F7FFF6A7D0294/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="Hausers.jpg" alt="Hausers.jpg" /></span>Free to run with a bike</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>riding with my brother</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>undefeated pirates from the city</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><EM>The Chairoplane</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>runs turns round and round</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>still a race with the bumper cars</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM>just long enough to smash my front teeth</EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><BR /></EM> <P class="lia-align-justify">We finally land in Milan, Italy for a Lo-Fi Americana song that evokes Aunt Lily singing for the Pope while she's washing in the basement bathroom:</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Basically, the song speaks of me when I was a kid.</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I'm from the city, and my uncles lived in a small town in the countryside far from cities, which was a situation I wasn't used to be.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">A genuine experience with real people, real feelings, and sincere human relationships, felt for the first time only far from the city, that gave fresh air while riding a bike in bucolic fields, having fun during the feast of the town imagining a peasant life, like in a painting by Ligabue. A picture of the life in the campaign.</P> <P> </P> <P>You should see a film called "L'alberto degli zoccoli" of Ermanno Olmi.</P> <P>It's in a strict italian dialect (that also I'm not able to understand), but it's a superlative film to understand where my feelings came from."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2DnRfYqJoxarMrVo6kizZ0:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2DnRfYqJoxarMrVo6kizZ0:small</A> </P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P> </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> </P> <P><A href="spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:user:osornios:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:40:38 GMT osornios 2023-03-22T13:40:38Z #MusicMonday Review - November 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/ba-p/5467972 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="5.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/154071i22373096F5BD456E/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="5.png" alt="5.png" /></span></P> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:40:38 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/ba-p/5467972 osornios 2023-03-22T13:40:38Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - November 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5474950#M8912 <P>Perfect music. </P> Sat, 17 Dec 2022 06:21:00 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5474950#M8912 Jimenita1921 2022-12-17T06:21:00Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - November 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5475318#M8913 <P><A href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mEYyf2jrLiA3YgPdxV13W?si=u_NuQfHoQneSRFN2YBdSnA" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mEYyf2jrLiA3YgPdxV13W?si=u_NuQfHoQneSRFN2YBdSnA</A><BR /><BR /></P><P>Amapiano Playlist!</P> Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:56:20 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5475318#M8913 RossRRK 2022-12-17T21:56:20Z Re: #MusicMonday Review - November 2022 https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5487733#M8914 <P><a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/25608206">@Olansgz</a> <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/25610118">@Jimenita1921</a> </P> <P> </P> <P>December's post is up <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2022/ba-p/5482469" target="_self">here</A>. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:41:40 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/The-Blog-Vault/MusicMonday-Review-November-2022/bc-p/5487733#M8914 osornios 2023-01-13T17:41:40Z