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article #MusicMonday Review - March 2025 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-March-2025/ba-p/6751727 <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-February-2025/ba-p/6751535" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">This month is all about supporting each other. From a multitude of genres to choose from, all these songs manage to express a message of introspection, and hope. 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>Seaker – Lately</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="Seaker.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/190907i84767691E99CB443/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="Seaker.jpg" alt="Seaker.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I’d give you part of myself</EM><BR /><EM>If I could handle it</EM><BR /><EM>It ain’t been feeling so easy lately</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>You gave me your hand</EM><BR /><EM>Made it real</EM><BR /><EM>You let me know about it</EM><BR /><EM>When things weren’t folding so neatly baby</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">London, England is our starting point, with a ethereal Dream Pop track about offering a helping hand to someone, just when they need it the most, and make them come out on the other side:</SPAN><BR /></SPAN></P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> </DIV> <DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I wrote it during a bit of a difficult time mentally and it's a song about being there for people when they can't see their own worth.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">I guess it's kind of a love song, but more a support song. If this makes sense!"</P> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:7khGMkis2F477wQ8F3jFtl:small" target="_self">spotify:track:7khGMkis2F477wQ8F3jFtl:small</A></P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Club Silencio – Somewhere in a Limestone Cave in Pennsylvania</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="ClubSilencio.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/190908i8F83C46E690BED77/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="ClubSilencio.jpg" alt="ClubSilencio.jpg" /></span>Sundial sayings are always sad</EM><BR /><EM>Tedious and brief the way things last</EM><BR /><EM>The last hour’s hidden so watch them all </EM><BR /><EM>It’s locked somewhere inside a vault</EM><BR /><EM>It’s all somewhere in a limestone cave </EM><BR /><EM>In Pennsylvania</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>If these walls could talk what would they say?</EM><BR /><EM>What would they say?</EM><BR /><EM>If these walls could talk, am I right?</EM><BR /><EM>Am I right?</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">Now let's go to Barrie, Ontario, Canada, for a Modern Rock track, with an alternative 80s influence, including the cryptic subject matter. It's all a mystery, so you've got yourself to blame for not listening:<BR /></SPAN></DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"We are a very collaborative band. It began with an idea (Cian ONeill, drummer) to write about sundial sayings and how they relate to ideas of impermanence. I like to think it's from the perspective of a conspiracy theorist talking about the world ending and how there is no time like the present.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">The American government stores important records and objects in limestone caves in Pennsylvania. In my experience conspiracy theorists often express sort of nihilistic world view that reinforces the idea of "living in the now" but because of a paranoia about the future as opposed to an openness toward or optimism for it.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Then the other person involved in writing those lyrics (Derek Upham) wrote the bridge and I don’t want to speak too much on what he wrote about. I think they are related to the first verse and chorus lyrics. We have almost always written in fragments where one of us has an idea and then someone else has an idea and so on, and we string them all together. I think it makes things interesting that way.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P>The instrumental was similar where everyone collaborated and built on each other's ideas."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2dkJ0WLDx5g7giH3roy1lk:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2dkJ0WLDx5g7giH3roy1lk:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <STRONG>New State Masses – Curtains Up</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="Lyrics-sc-1bcc94c6-1 bzTABU" data-lyrics-container="true"> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="NewStateMasses.jpg" style="width: 303px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/190909iB03F1241746FF4F8/image-dimensions/303x303?v=v2" width="303" height="303" role="button" title="NewStateMasses.jpg" alt="NewStateMasses.jpg" /></span>Another week has gone too soon </EM><BR /><EM>of living life in reverse </EM><BR /><EM>But what we’re not supposed to do </EM><BR /><EM>Is ever shout aloud or speak so lend me your ear and I’ll tell it all to you</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I walked a line untrue for you. </EM><BR /><EM>So I've cut a mark in the dirt </EM><BR /><EM>You hoped my bottle was lost too soon </EM></P> <P><EM>to ever shout aloud speak </EM></P> <P><EM>lend me your ear and I'll tell it all to you</EM></P> <P> </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">Across the Atlantic, we land on Brighton, England for a soulful ballad with powerful lyrics that delve deep into themes of release, and recovery, as band member Pete explains:</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<EM>Curtains Up</EM> was my weapon and my protection in overcoming PTSD, putting those who'd wronged me in the past and finally turning the tables.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />I wrote it at about 1 am and we recorded it shortly after while I still found it triggering to sing the words - I think you can hear that in the recording.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />I never thought I'd be brave enough to release it as it is, as it's so emotionally raw but Matt Parisi (my other half on New State Masses) and Ben Hillier who co produced the record said it had to be honest. So here it is."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:4QdUu5UiwDQIFpGKkFRgVC:small" target="_self">spotify:track:4QdUu5UiwDQIFpGKkFRgVC:small</A>  </P> <P> </P> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Ryan McMurtry – Full Picture</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="RyanMcMurtry.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/190910i114A29F97FB4BDB8/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="RyanMcMurtry.jpg" alt="RyanMcMurtry.jpg" /></span> <P> </P> <P><EM>One of these days</EM><BR /><EM>I'll drive away</EM><BR /><EM>chase the dawn</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I'll never see full picture</EM><BR /><EM>floating down this river</EM><BR /><EM>tired of gazing at the past</EM><BR /><EM>and holding on like a ride</EM></P> <P> </P> </DIV> <DIV> <P>We travel west to Bristol, for a warm, atmospheric, Indie Folk song plenty of metaphoric imagery that shifts your attention right into your own imaginative faculties:</P> <P> </P> <P>"The song is kind of about being lost and trying to get yourself on the right path. I wrote it when grieving someone who had been on a troubled path in life, so I was thinking about that a lot at the time, and also about my own life and whether I was going in the right direction."</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2P6aYBdUNH6VqFcQJCUfGM:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2P6aYBdUNH6VqFcQJCUfGM:small</A> </P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Found Instruments – You're Not Alone</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="FoundInstruments.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/190911i0F9A3E9BF61B45DD/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="FoundInstruments.jpg" alt="FoundInstruments.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>Sometimes I don’t feel like myself,</EM></P> <P><EM>and I just can’t figure it out</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>I thought you were drifting away</EM></P> <P><EM>Sometimes I don't know what to say</EM></P> <P><EM>I keep waiting on you</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>We end our UK trip, in Walton-on-Thames for a Twin Peaks infused Lo-Fi Dream Pop track, about reassuring a friend that everything will pass, someway, somehow. Breath out and in, it's happening:</P> </DIV> <DIV><BR /> <P class="lia-align-justify">"I started writing it with someone and a specific situation in mind but as it developed it became a bit broader which is usually how songs are for me."</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1CVK8zTq7sNirXskCGQRN0:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1CVK8zTq7sNirXskCGQRN0:small</A> </P> <P> </P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlis</SPAN>t</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> Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:17:36 GMT osornios 2025-03-31T22:17:36Z #MusicMonday Review - March 2025 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-March-2025/ba-p/6751727 <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> Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:17:36 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-March-2025/ba-p/6751727 osornios 2025-03-31T22:17:36Z