article #MusicMonday Review - September 2024 in Community Blog

article #MusicMonday Review - September 2024 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-September-2024/ba-p/6261863 <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-August-2024/ba-p/6261859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The wonders of youth. A time to reflect about freedom, memories, learning the lessons of life, or just having fun in five different genres. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves.<SPAN class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:"><BR /></SPAN> <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P> </P> <DIV><STRONG>Cloud Peak View – Heavens No Place For Gravestones</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="CloudPeakView.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177489i9278A4336DACFE31/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="CloudPeakView.jpg" alt="CloudPeakView.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>These fleeting moments,<BR />they slip through my grasp,<BR />Like grains of sand,<BR />in an hourglass,<BR />But I've come to see,<BR />in the haze of my past,<BR />The smallest joys,<BR />make my Eden last.<BR /></EM><EM> </EM></P> </DIV> <P 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 in Cody, Wyoming, for some Hard Rock with an early 2000s vibe, where you don't have to bury your feelings in the dark unknown, and paradise awaits in the light of day:</SPAN><BR /></SPAN></P> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Honestly I looked into the mirror one day filled with pride, thinking I was building something for my family, when all I had done was miss out on the small things that made them happy like playing with my children or simply going to bed with my wife.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I lost balance and misplaced my heaven on earth… my family. Don't bury those beautiful moments that so many take for granted. They are the moments that are meant to keep us fulfilled. They are moments not meant to die, but ones that last. Heavens no place for gravestones.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I wrote this song because I hoped it would inspire others to see through "the haze" of their past, to Learn from it, to fix it, and come to really enjoy there heaven on earth whatever that may be, rather than speaking words that have no action to prove their meaning."</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:5RVEDUZHkvKEpVCFU02UYh:small" target="_self">spotify:track:5RVEDUZHkvKEpVCFU02UYh:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Project Overload – Moving Mayhem</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="ProjectOverload.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177277i2BEDC3F2EE832D1F/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="ProjectOverload.jpg" alt="ProjectOverload.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I don't want to see the world without you,</EM></P> <P><EM>Freedom is the best melody,</EM></P> <P><EM>Traveling the world of philosophy.</EM></P> <P><EM>Moving mayhem to just to be seen,</EM></P> <P><EM>I don't want you to be apart from me.</EM></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x10flsy6 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x41vudc x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u">Next up, from Coventry, England, this Indie Pop selection is all about another type of Eden: just to roll round in the grass, have a great time, and feel the sun after so much time in the darkness:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Moving Mayhem was written during our first rehearsal after coming out of the COVID lockdown in the UK. We were 14 and 15 year olds, and it felt like we’d missed an important part of our lives.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The song is a celebration of freedom after being shut inside away from the world and an outpouring of joy at being able, at last, to get on with being kids, being relaxed, happy and free to enjoy life once again with the friends we’d missed for so long.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I remember that summer we had fantastic weather, too, and the lyrics take us right back to those long hot days. We were determined not to take our friends or our freedom for granted again!"</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:77jzj98hkIJDyyhtBHo7q7:small" target="_self">spotify:track:77jzj98hkIJDyyhtBHo7q7:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <STRONG>Os Overdoses – Practical Choke</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="OsOverdose.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177490i8126ECCF20B2C636/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="OsOverdose.jpg" alt="OsOverdose.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Fear is my homie<BR />A joke is what I make<BR />Pull you by your armstring<BR />Ha Ha Ha!<BR />What a joke I make!</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR /><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">Next stop, Morto Portugal, for some psychedelic old-school rock n'roll riffing that brings horror themed comics to life. Be careful, they may take you for the ride of your (after)life</SPAN></SPAN>:</P> <P> </P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"[Band member] Joey took it from a tales from the crypt comic. It's about two medicine students who pull pranks with body parts they took from the morgue. They put it in random spaces.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">So thank god it’s not from personal experience. At least that's what we'd tell the FBI.</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">At the end they get chocked by an intestine."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2K86XH6A48qZLTaR6Ht970:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2K86XH6A48qZLTaR6Ht970:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Dragged Up – Young Person's Guide to Going Backwards in the World</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="DraggedUp.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177278iC41CFE242D38F384/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="DraggedUp.jpg" alt="DraggedUp.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>When all I knew</EM><BR /><EM>Suicide Saturdays</EM><BR /><EM>Moulding strange faces</EM><BR /><EM>Blank generation beach</EM><BR /><EM>Breaking my nose</EM><BR /><EM>When all was out of reach</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Let's travel to Glasgow, Scotland, for a Lo-Fi Garage Rock track titled after a kids TV show that'd fit accurately in the grown up world. The question that begs to be answered is: Who is Anna Home? Band member Eva explains:</P> <P> </P> <P>"The track is partly auto-biographical, with childhood memories of loneliness mixed with those of TV shows. Desperate to escape the confines of a somewhat repressive background, I sought solace in music, strange films and TV.</P> <P> </P> <P>Anna Home was a kids TV commissioning officer responsible for certain shows which fascinated me, including the series Dramarama. The song's title is taken from one episode which I felt fit the narrative well. I also reference another storyline (Back to Front) which involved a sinister Doppelganger taking over the protagonist's life, leaving them forever trapped inside a mirror looking out onto the world - somehow finding that relatable to my own existence! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😊</span>"</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3b1p3VY7mLLA3C1N8IH8md:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3b1p3VY7mLLA3C1N8IH8md:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>The Barren Spinsters – Paint Another Picture</STRONG></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="TheBarrenSpinsters.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/177279iD0D366827FBDDC62/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="TheBarrenSpinsters.jpg" alt="TheBarrenSpinsters.jpg" /></span>discipline and purpose</EM></P> <P><EM>isn’t what we lacked</EM></P> <P><EM>making bad decisions</EM></P> <P><EM>without all the facts</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>striving for composure</EM></P> <P><EM>falling very short</EM></P> <P><EM>forming an opinion</EM></P> <P><EM>as a last resort</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>We end our trip in Canberra, Australia for a Blues Rock track with a thrashy twist about how being older means things are less dramatic, but it doesn't mean you're smarter, or wise:</P> </DIV> <DIV><BR /> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Musically we always try and mash our influences together, even if it looks like they won't work. The guitar riff started off as an old delta blues style thing. Then we threw a Van Halen style groove over it, and a ridiculous guitar solo at the end. Bon appetit!"</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:45qBKwKUS1kNgaLjEUKa1k:small" target="_self">spotify:track:45qBKwKUS1kNgaLjEUKa1k:small</A> </P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Listen to them and much more on the complete</SPAN> Playlist</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:16:29 GMT osornios 2024-10-02T23:16:29Z #MusicMonday Review - September 2024 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-September-2024/ba-p/6261863 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="music-blog.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/173766i39FAE7A484005229/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="music-blog.jpg" alt="music-blog.jpg" /></span></P> Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:16:29 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-September-2024/ba-p/6261863 osornios 2024-10-02T23:16:29Z