article #MusicMonday Review - December 2024 in Community Blog

article #MusicMonday Review - December 2024 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2024/ba-p/6516686 <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-November-2024/ba-p/6451530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">This is it, the last one of the year. As always, a diverse set of genres, themes, and grooves makes it a memorable 5-step trip around the world. 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>Drenched – Daisystompers</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="Drenched.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/187736i921BF15E499361A5/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="Drenched.jpg" alt="Drenched.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>Don't fall asleep at the wheel</EM><BR /><EM>We could have been friends, instead you're irrelevant</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>Could have sold the lot by now</EM><BR /><EM>A day at the races, you lost your wager</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>The world is just too small for you</EM><BR /><EM>Go f your ego, cry in the mirror</EM></P> <P> </P> <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">To begin, let's go to Launceston, Tasmania for an Alt Rock track about big lads, brittle egos, and what happens when booze is added to the mix:</SPAN><BR /></SPAN></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It is inspired by some drunk middle age guys that tried to steal merch from us at a show, when we confronted them on it they tried to get violent and then got thrown out of the venue. They were pretty old so they probably should have known better. But when alcohol is involved some people are just beyond saving.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P>The lyrics are half things that they said to us in the altercation, and half our reflections on the event."</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1zoqOB6KNJFtzX6mEcM3hg:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1zoqOB6KNJFtzX6mEcM3hg:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>INAUGURAL – NIGHTCLUB</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left" image-alt="Inaugural.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/187737iD16F70638CA10F52/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="Inaugural.jpg" alt="Inaugural.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>It's all the same, they make a pact, </EM><BR /><EM>At midnight in the club not coming back.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>It's a nightclub suicide and you're feeling alright,</EM><BR /><EM>It's a nightclub suicide, and you're going to die. </EM></P> <P> </P> </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">We dance all the way to Sydney, Australia for a New Wave-y Synth Pop track that invites you to join the Club, dressed in black, with no friends in sight:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"NIGHTCLUB was one of those tracks that just wrote itself. It's an anti establishment song that we wrote in hope of unmasking what dance music’s vague lyrics are actually trying to say. It's a song about modern disillusionment."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2vD8eoEi5jGUkJoBDe8yQF:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2vD8eoEi5jGUkJoBDe8yQF:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <STRONG>Zero Point Energy – All That You Want</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="ZeroPointEnergy.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/187738i55C23538632D5C58/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="ZeroPointEnergy.jpg" alt="ZeroPointEnergy.jpg" /></span></EM><EM>And it comеs down like a bomb</EM><BR /><EM>It’s your shadow it sticks to you</EM><BR /><EM>It surrounds you as you run</EM><BR /><EM>A filtered signal is coming through</EM><BR /><EM>Brings the sky down all at once</EM><BR /><EM>And you just hope that it runs it course</EM><BR /><EM>But it comes back even worse</EM><BR /><EM>As if that’s all that you wanted</EM></P> <DIV class="InreadContainer-sc-b078f8b1-0 krAsGh" data-exclude-from-selection="true"> <DIV class="DfpAd-sc-8081638d-0 klhXOZ"> <DIV class="DfpAd-sc-8081638d-1 hvFFrp"> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="Lyrics-sc-1bcc94c6-1 bzTABU" data-lyrics-container="true"><EM>And it brings</EM><BR /><EM>And it gives</EM><BR /><EM>And it’s all your life</EM><BR /><EM>But it costs</EM><BR /><EM>All you have</EM><BR /><EM>Every single time</EM><BR /><EM>Is that what you want?<BR /></EM></DIV> <P> </P> <P><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 fly all the way to Brooklyn, NY for a Shoegaze-infused Indie Rock track about the patterns that we build. The past, the future... it's geometry. Band member Ben explains:</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The song speaks to feeling trapped in a cycle or a way of life that isn’t serving you and having to work against yourself to find a sense of freedom. An ongoing sense that you have to constantly be out running yourself or else things will fall apart.</P> <P> </P> <P>It comes from a kind of paranoid mindset but I think in writing about it there's a sense of hopefulness to be found. Ultimately it's about choosing to live as best you can. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":folded_hands:">🙏🏼</span>"</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1X6anWqNoilJYdtUiAjx3k:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1X6anWqNoilJYdtUiAjx3k:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Pato Sabático – El Corrido de Caito</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <EM><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="PatoSabatico.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/187739iF9751DB7AAB99661/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="PatoSabatico.jpg" alt="PatoSabatico.jpg" /></span></EM>Caito está en su casa </EM><BR /> <P><EM>Vendiendo marihuana</EM><BR /><EM>Mira fijo por la ventana</EM><BR /><EM>Por si se aparece la cana</EM><BR /><EM>Y se lo quieran llevar </EM><BR /><EM>Por hacer lo ilegal</EM></P> <P><EM>Y se lo quieran llevar</EM><BR /><EM>Privado de su libertad</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Tres años le van a dar</EM><BR /><EM>Por hacer lo ilegal </EM><BR /><EM>Privado de su libertad</EM></P> </DIV> <DIV> <P> </P> <P>We now travel far, far to the south, all the way to Santa Fe, Argentina, for a Folk Punk track about behaving badly while you can, until you come face to face with the law. Cue the sirens:</P> <P> </P> <P>"For this song I was inspired by a real-life experience of a close friend of mine. Musically I like to think of it as a fusion between Stay Free of The Clash and other artists that inspire my like Juan Cirerol and Johnny Cash."</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:42PWH0SY4uTFhPZuuYlIks:small" target="_self">spotify:track:42PWH0SY4uTFhPZuuYlIks:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Two Headed Horse – Lamplighters</STRONG></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="TwoHeadedHorse.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/187740iEA0CFED39DBE61A4/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="TwoHeadedHorse.jpg" alt="TwoHeadedHorse.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Fearing that I might become another unlit streetlamp<BR /></EM></P> <P><EM>I take long strides down a lonely boulevard</EM></P> <P><EM>towards a hotel that I know well</EM></P> <P><EM>it's slowly sliding into hell</EM></P> <P><EM>and it will surely be expecting me</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>We finish our year in London, England for an Indie track about being idle in the rain, sad as a sinking moon, missing a smile in the dark corners of autonomy:</P> </DIV> <DIV><BR /> <P class="lia-align-justify">"It was a mix of reading a lot of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and imagining the end of an all-consuming relationship from a melodramatic POV. I'm fascinated by the language of heartbreak, and how hard it is to express linguistically."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:3EjRJspkPX2enBPVcJvLBA:small" target="_self">spotify:track:3EjRJspkPX2enBPVcJvLBA: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 year!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:59:09 GMT osornios 2024-12-24T00:59:09Z #MusicMonday Review - December 2024 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2024/ba-p/6516686 <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> Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:59:09 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-December-2024/ba-p/6516686 osornios 2024-12-24T00:59:09Z