https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/ba-p/5587752 <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-April-2023/ba-p/5572987" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Multiple subjects, different genres, yet this month's tracks open up without holding back. Have an honest listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV><STRONG>Bad Pilot – The sad king &amp; the Singer</STRONG></DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="BadPilot.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/158462i78C7ACCB736EC364/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="BadPilot.jpg" alt="BadPilot.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <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 begin this month in Friedrichshain, Germany, with a synth pop hybrid full of drum, bass, and electro beats:</SPAN><BR /></SPAN></DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"This song is inspired by one of The Hyperion Cantos' character, The sad king Billy, novel by Dan Simmons that I read during the lock down periods.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The sad king gets bored alone in his Palace while the world is sinking into chaos devoured by a mysterious scourge that spared no one. In love and obsessed with the world of the Arts, he invites his muse and poetess to write and sing songs in a new Babylon that he wants to create with her and 8000 other artists, a world of free spirits without limits to entertainment, without political structure and without police."</P> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:04abRYpRCloKUpVjO7cSvs:small" target="_self">spotify:track:04abRYpRCloKUpVjO7cSvs:small</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>The Palava – Comfort Zone</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="ThePalava.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/158463i98B16761C4CD92F3/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="ThePalava.jpg" alt="ThePalava.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>The honeymoon phase it cannot last</EM></P> <P><EM>Just give it two years and it’s in the past</EM></P> <P><EM>I wake from my sleep and I hear your name</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>The glass is broken and we’re missing a piece</EM></P> <P><EM>Just hold on and follow me</EM></P> <P><EM>We gotta hold tight we can make it work</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="location secondaryText">From York, England, this Indie Rock track let's you channel your broken heart, where you're put in the past, with no signs of going back</SPAN>:</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"the song was influenced by the themes of a break up and the feelings that go around clinging onto things you shouldn’t and the feeling of needing to let go but being unable to."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3fPLoDP5CcroqZwRXm0MIZ:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3fPLoDP5CcroqZwRXm0MIZ:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <STRONG>Box Of Kings – Two Timin' Woman</STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="BoxOfKings.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/158464iCB3B75E3184D6479/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="BoxOfKings.jpg" alt="BoxOfKings.jpg" /></span> <P>&nbsp;</P> <EM>You took all my lovin’, you took all I had</EM></DIV> <DIV> <P><EM>You played your part then snuck off to another man</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>You told me you loved me, said I was your man</EM><BR /><EM>You’d never ever do me wrong, or so you said</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>Well, you’d best believe me now, the cat’s out of the bag</EM><BR /><EM>Your scheming ways are done, too late to make amends</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <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">Let's move away from a bad breakup to the Netherlands for some Blues Rock, instrumental interlude included, about trustingly walking into an emotional trap</SPAN></SPAN>:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Nothing from personal experience. It’s just a rock song about a deceiving woman. We (the guys in the band) are all happily married. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😁</span>"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3SKPQvHrc78FWCRycMAdOc:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3SKPQvHrc78FWCRycMAdOc:small</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV><STRONG>Social Station – Secrets to Be Heard </STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="SocialStation.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/158465iD191E96D1F919C89/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="SocialStation.jpg" alt="SocialStation.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>You can be a freak, and I can be a weirdo</EM><BR /><EM>Take a hit, you can’t quit, look around the corner</EM><BR /><EM>Push or Pull, empty or full, there is nowhere left</EM><BR /><EM>Are you talking to me? Well that’s my best DeNiro</EM></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify">From heartbreak, and deception, we travel to Washington, D.C. for a haunting post-punk track that makes you believe. Sink or swim, you have to hold your head high:</DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I would say Secrets to Be Heard was a pretty spontaneous track, completed very quickly in the course of a single recording session. The general theme of the song is trying to be comfortable in your own skin, owning up to failings, and just trying to be a better person.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Like many songs on our new album, Secrets to Be Heard is definitely inspired by those trying to be true to themselves and trying to live their best life. I wouldn't say there was one particular experience or person, but a collection of people that I've known personally that unfortunately could not cope with issues of being accepted, mental illness, and substance abuse.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">This song is a reflection on those struggles, and imagines if they could have been helped, simply, if their secrets could be heard."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:673T2ZHCN5JiA0oz7XPwkz:small" target="_self">spotify:track:673T2ZHCN5JiA0oz7XPwkz:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG>Jared Knapik – Tempered Glass</STRONG></P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="JaredKnapik.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/158466iDADA51B96D929EA6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="JaredKnapik.jpg" alt="JaredKnapik.jpg" /></span>I blinked just in time to watch it all pass by</EM><BR /><EM>By in front of me, it's been five years since we're 23</EM><BR /><EM>Remember when you said to me, "In five years and we'll be 30"?</EM><BR /><EM>Is this how you wanted it to happen, or is this just a bad twist?</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Now we're 29 and the years are flying by</EM><BR /><EM>Without much courtesy, just rushing all my memories</EM><BR /><EM>Remember what you said to me when I told you what you meant to me?</EM><BR /><EM>Standing out there in the cold, I prayed this life to go slow</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify">We end this month's selection in <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">Granby, CT</SPAN></SPAN> for an mysterious acoustic track about the concept of time, actions, and consequences:</DIV> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I don’t often like to say exactly what songs are about — I think it can detract from listeners’ abilities to extract their own meanings — but I’ll say this:</P> <P>I like to describe songs as “emotionally autobiographical”. Meaning, maybe there wasn’t an actual car accident like is described in the chorus, but the feeling is real.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The lines in the verses — “Remember when you said to me, ‘In five years and we’ll be thirty’”, and “Now we’re twenty-nine and the years are flying by without much courtesy, just rushing all my memories” — those were real conversations I had with someone about how quickly time seemed to be passing us by. It seemed like as we got older, the times we got to see each other became fewer and farther between; the weeks turned into months, then years."</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3Bq96EInbU6y1mcuSDMTVF:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3Bq96EInbU6y1mcuSDMTVF:small</A>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</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> Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:59:15 GMT osornios 2023-06-13T00:59:15Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/ba-p/5587752 <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/154053iEE942BBF1BBEA99C/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="5.png" alt="5.png" /></span></P> Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:59:15 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/ba-p/5587752 osornios 2023-06-13T00:59:15Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5596143#M23133 <P data-unlink="true"><SPAN>Your commitment to presenting fresh and diverse selections is commendable, as you strive to identify trends before they gain mainstream popularity.</SPAN></P> Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:51:10 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5596143#M23133 cloverleafpropertyma 2023-06-15T16:51:10Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5599790#M23155 <P>i enjoyed this blog. the lyrics from 'comfort zone' and 'tempered glass' stood out most to me. gave them a listen and i loved it.&nbsp;</P><P>thanks!</P> Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:12:32 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5599790#M23155 Priya03 2023-06-23T07:12:32Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5600475#M23159 <P>Glad you liked them <a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/25817407">@Priya03</a> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:56:10 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-May-2023/bc-p/5600475#M23159 osornios 2023-06-24T23:56:10Z