https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/ba-p/7050101 <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-July-2025/ba-p/7002131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July's review</A> <EM>for more music.</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">In this issue, the theme is nostalgia. From nonreciprocating love, a unforgettable night out, lost friendships, or long distance relationships, indulge yourself, and 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>&nbsp;</P> <DIV><STRONG><SPAN>Rebecca Helen – Lost In Your Love</SPAN></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="RebeccaHelen.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/197538iD05A4CF3D1B480F8/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="RebeccaHelen.jpg" alt="RebeccaHelen.jpg" /></span></DIV> <DIV> <P><EM>You bring me to my knees</EM></P> <P><EM>my baby</EM></P> <P><EM>your kiss is sticky sweet</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>Your lips are cherry</EM></P> <P><EM>blossoms baby</EM></P> <P><EM>it's a tempting treat</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>Your eyes are miles of ocean baby</EM><BR /><EM>Your skin is silky soft</EM><BR /><EM>Your fingers know just how to touch me</EM><BR /><EM>It's like we’re making art</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />We take off in Cape Town, South Africa, for an Indie Dance track that fantasizes about that ideal person you'd like to be with, but you already know it's not going to happen:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>"The song is about a time when I had a crush on someone and was too afraid to share how I felt. I did, but he was in love with someone else.&nbsp;However I still wrote the song to be a happy uplifting song. Riding the roller coaster of love and the euphoric feeling I had when he was around."</P> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2YrZiHF1rkIeZk4TiKkCR3:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2YrZiHF1rkIeZk4TiKkCR3:small</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><SPAN>The Sunday Shamans – As the Sun Comes Up</SPAN></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="TheSundayShamans.jpg" style="width: 260px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/197539i9AB9C684041E55EA/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="TheSundayShamans.jpg" alt="TheSundayShamans.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>As the sun comes up</EM></P> <P><EM>wake upon the day</EM><BR /><EM>separate yourself</EM></P> <P><EM>I can see through you</EM></P> <P><BR /><EM>the tenants of my mind</EM></P> <P><EM>lost on what to do</EM><BR /><EM>lose yourself</EM></P> <P><EM>we don't know what is true</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />From London, England, we enter the world of Psychedelia for a track about beginning the day having the feeling that you've fallen for someone, where the line between fantasy and reality is blurred<SPAN class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x10flsy6 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x41vudc x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u">:<BR /></SPAN></P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>The track was inspired by a morning after going out, waking up with the sunrise, having the buzz still from last night and the connection you feel when falling in love.</SPAN>"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:0maPumwFe0AEcim1CxPUOA:small" target="_self">spotify:track:0maPumwFe0AEcim1CxPUOA:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <STRONG><SPAN>Mi Primer Año Sabático – Escucha Bro</SPAN></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="Sabaticos.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/197540i1767CD574941C9A5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="Sabaticos.jpg" alt="Sabaticos.jpg" /></span></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="Lyrics-sc-1bcc94c6-1 bzTABU" data-lyrics-container="true"> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Solíamos </EM><BR /><EM>Fumar hasta morir</EM><BR /><EM>Solíamos</EM><BR /><EM>No parar de subir</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>Y se terminó</EM><BR /><EM>Aquella inocencia</EM><BR /><EM>Ya se terminó</EM><BR /><EM>Como esta canción...</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">We fly now to Santa Fe, Argentina for a groovy Ska track about growing apart from cherished ones, and longing for those moments <SPAN class="kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah"><SPAN>you spent with them years ago</SPAN></SPAN>:</SPAN></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>The song came after a period of listening to The Clash and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. It’s dedicated to our friends—those who were part of our first bands, who shared endless afternoons skating with us—who, over time and because of work or life circumstances, ended up becoming police officers. There’s a sense of affection and melancholy in it. We’re not judging them; it’s more about processing the distance that’s grown between us and the people we used to be together.</SPAN>"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:7urvRoVz3SYI4v5jCrFoUh:small" target="_self">spotify:track:7urvRoVz3SYI4v5jCrFoUh:small</A>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><SPAN>Giselle Parker – Fine</SPAN></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="GiselleParker.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/197541iBDE87D940C2D12BC/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="GiselleParker.jpg" alt="GiselleParker.jpg" /></span>It started with a ripple, followed by a splash<BR />The quiet intermission ended with a crash<BR />Am I losing my head or just losing some salt?<BR />I get to choose- so it’s never your fault<BR /></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM>I used to want you closer, now I’m running scared<BR />Don’t know if you’re listening, don’t know if I care<BR />I hide out in the garden of my intrusive thoughts<BR />But I’ve been caught</EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <DIV> <P>We now go to Edmonton, Alberta, CA for a Folk Pop song that wonders if life&nbsp;these days are a consequence or some exalted test, with the hope that, in the end, it’ll be just fine:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>"<SPAN>I wrote Fine during one of the hardest years of my life. I was wrestling with the existence/nature of God, struggling to see the point of it all, and wondering why so many hard things were happening all at once.</SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN>I found it therapeutic to lay all the frustration on the table at that time in my life and be honest about where I was at. It’s still one of my favourite songs to sing. Definitely one of my most raw tracks, I think.</SPAN>"</P> </DIV> </DIV> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:1KOFRKi7NvxOXxoff7on8w:small" target="_self">spotify:track:1KOFRKi7NvxOXxoff7on8w:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>The Open Flames – The Right Pill</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="TheOpenFlames.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/197542i09B093D460B4D206/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="TheOpenFlames.jpg" alt="TheOpenFlames.jpg" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> </DIV> <DIV class="lia-align-justify"> <P><EM><SPAN>Yeah, you can walk upon the moon</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>if you take the right pill,</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>but pretty soon, man, you will know</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>what is pain and how much</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>you can swallow.</SPAN></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><EM><SPAN>But when you finally get up there,</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>and walk upon the lightest air,</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>you may finally know what it's like to be alone</SPAN></EM></P> <P><EM><SPAN>with nothing to hold you down.</SPAN></EM></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>We finish by going back to London, for some poetic&nbsp;Pop Noir about the tough&nbsp;narrative of sacrificing it all to make it in the music business:</P> </DIV> <DIV><BR /> <P class="lia-align-justify">"The song<SPAN> is all about being a musician on the streets of Hollywood, thinking back to the girlfriend he left behind, and to the wisdom he sees on a bathroom stall when he's puking up pills.</SPAN></P> <P class="lia-align-justify">&nbsp;</P> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><SPAN>so yeah, it's autobiographical <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN>"</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:track:2cUiaM3HtGowUOOz1wqnNs:small" target="_self">spotify:track:2cUiaM3HtGowUOOz1wqnNs:small</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>See you next month!</P> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:56:41 GMT osornios 2025-08-26T00:56:41Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/ba-p/7050101 <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&amp;px=400" role="button" title="music-blog.jpg" alt="music-blog.jpg" /></span></P> Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:56:41 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/ba-p/7050101 osornios 2025-08-26T00:56:41Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/bc-p/7124176#M24782 <P><a href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/26954620">@EricaHiggins</a>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I've discovered great songs through movies, and TV soundtracks, but usually it's mainstream stuff. Discovering up and coming artists, it's more of a word of mouth thing, and very rewarding when you see them succeed afterwards. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:28:48 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/bc-p/7124176#M24782 osornios 2025-09-09T18:28:48Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/bc-p/7183240#M25053 <P>he nostalgia theme really ties everything together beautifully. Each track captures a different kind of longing — from Rebecca Helen’s dreamy unspoken love to Mi Primer Año Sabático’s bittersweet reflection on friendships fading with time<A href="http://riyadhmetro.net" target="_self"><FONT size="1 2 3 4 5 6 7">,</FONT></A> Giselle Parker’s <EM>Fine</EM> really hit me the hardest — that balance between faith, frustration, and hope feels so real. And <EM>The Right Pill</EM> by The Open Flames is such a haunting closer — poetic and raw. Thanks for sharing these gems and for keeping #MusicMonday fresh and meaningful every time. Already following the playlist! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":raising_hands:">🙌</span></P> Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:48:31 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-August-2025/bc-p/7183240#M25053 Kudu1 2025-10-22T15:48:31Z