article #MusicMonday Review - April 2026 in Community Blog

article #MusicMonday Review - April 2026 in Community Blog https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-April-2026/ba-p/7383643 <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/bg-p/spotifyct/label-name/music%20monday" target="_self">#MusicMonday</A> 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 <A href="https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-March-2026/ba-p/7346627" target="_self">March's review</A> for more music.</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">In this issue, we tackle on the subject of human conflict, including those times when you battle with your own self. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":headphone:">🎧</span></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Morgendust – King of Lonely Souls</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="Morgendust.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/206129i3AF97C9680E9E193/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="Morgendust.jpg" alt="Morgendust.jpg" /></span></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>She went astray</EM></P> <P><EM>With demons haunting her</EM></P> <P><EM>Holding on to every bit of rope</EM></P> <P><EM>Faith is hope and we’re running out </EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>You want the world that you can’t control</EM></P> <P><EM>You want to touch what you can not hold</EM></P> <P><EM>Come on and get it, come on and get it</EM></P> <P><EM>I’m pretty sure you know me</EM></P> <P><EM>I’m the king of lonely souls</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">We begin this musical journey in Zwolle, Netherlands, with a Cinematic Indie Rock track about being trapped in a toxic world of sadness, where grief is love with no place to go. Band member Marco explains:</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>I have a religious background and I wanted to write about the devil… but what/who is the devil? </SPAN></P> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"> </P> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><SPAN>Everyone faces their own ‘devil’. In this song it’s a woman who suffers depression. </SPAN></P> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"> </P> <P style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><SPAN>Something I was a witness of in my circle of friends.</SPAN><SPAN><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></SPAN>"</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:74WuO3lpYnPUcFzyhAGkta:small" target="_self">spotify:track:74WuO3lpYnPUcFzyhAGkta:small</A></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Icarus Phoenix – Boiled Peanuts, misheard (feat. Chasing Mice)</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="IcarusPhoenix.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/206596iBB307267AECA527D/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="IcarusPhoenix.jpg" alt="IcarusPhoenix.jpg" /></span><EM>I could be brutal instead </EM></P> <P><EM>feeding you poison sweetened</EM><BR /><EM>Desiccate all you once were </EM></P> <P><EM>whatever you’re saying misheard</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Honey it’s easy to squeeze </EM></P> <P><EM>a trigger that’s pointing toward me</EM><BR /><EM>A storm of resentment in you </EM></P> <P><EM>Robotic and silent, a ruse</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><BR />Let's fly now to Baltimore, MD. for an Indie Rock track with traces of Americana about a relationship where every conversation becomes the same, without truly listening to what's being said:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"Lyrically, it's essentially about my ex-wife. I'm dealing with the difficulty of communication.</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P>Musically, [band member] Leena wrote the opening guitar line and then we collaborated in the structure and songwriting as a band for the rest."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:6oWw2zCT2ceALxQPRQpIcM:small" target="_self">spotify:track:6oWw2zCT2ceALxQPRQpIcM:small</A></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Warm Coat – Expert</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="WarmCoat.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/206597i729DC3B0BA85ED85/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="WarmCoat.jpg" alt="WarmCoat.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Every subject I find</EM><BR /><EM>You're so quick to remind us</EM><BR /><EM>You're always right</EM></P> <P><EM>It's a skill that you honed</EM><BR /><EM>Not to leave you exposed in the limelight</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Quick to claim solutions</EM><BR /><EM>Though you never know</EM><BR /><EM>Talk over the rest</EM></P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Talking about broken communication, let's now go to Rhondda Valley, South Wales, in the UK for a shoegazy Indie Rock track about how hard is to teach someone who thinks that knows everything, even when they actually don't:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>I think everyone knows someone who can’t be advised because they think they already have the answers. It could be someone in the family or at work. In my case it was based on several people I’ve come into contact with in my life who talk over the room and cannot take advice.</SPAN>"</P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:track:15hCHMygbvR2sJL6Sh8h3Q:small" target="_self">spotify:track:15hCHMygbvR2sJL6Sh8h3Q:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>Mike Chek & Grant Griffin – Saki Shots</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><EM><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right" image-alt="MikeChek.jpg" style="width: 225px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/206598iBB0C9B8B9B5390F9/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="MikeChek.jpg" alt="MikeChek.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P><EM>The hazmat kimono was half ass on</EM></P> <P><EM>My whole body was exposed to the acid rap zone</EM></P> <P><EM>I was molded</EM></P> <P><EM>To be a murderous ronin</EM></P> <P><EM>My reflex’s so fast in one second you folded</EM></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">Let's travel now to Detroit, MI for an Alt-Rap collaboration about fighting alone against the world, just like a japanese anime can do:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>I met Grant on Discord, and we started building a boom bap album. Theme wise the approach was to alternate who starts each song and this specific one came about after watching an episode of samurai champloo</SPAN>."</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:0K3uD821Uk7SAlqlrvxUV8:small" target="_self">spotify:track:0K3uD821Uk7SAlqlrvxUV8:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG><SPAN>In the Variant – Anything You Want</SPAN></STRONG></P> <P> </P> <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-center" image-alt="InTheVariant.jpg" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/206599i23CDDF089B57DE5A/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400" role="button" title="InTheVariant.jpg" alt="InTheVariant.jpg" /></span></EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>Are you listening</EM></P> <P><EM>To the sound of my voice</EM></P> <P><EM>Can you </EM></P> <P><EM>tell it’s me</EM></P> <P><EM>Stuck inside you head</EM></P> <P><EM>On repeat</EM></P> <P><EM>Even when you close your eyes</EM></P> <P><EM>You’ll see me all the time</EM></P> <P><EM>But I’m not really there</EM></P> <P><EM>you’re dreaming</EM></P> <P> </P> <P><EM>If there’s one thing</EM></P> <P><EM>That I know for sure </EM></P> <P><EM>Is you can’t have me anymore</EM></P> <P> </P> <P>Our trip ends in Denver, CO. for a Hard Rock song about taking steps away form all that we've ever known, looking for something you may not even know yet:</P> <P> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify">"<SPAN>It was shaped by a universal experience I think a lot of people grapple with. <EM>Anything you want</EM> is a song of struggle between security and risk. The feeling of knowing what is right for you in the long run but fighting the uncertainty of it.</SPAN></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN>We often search for comfort and find it in places that don’t provide passion or fulfillment in any other areas of our life and the need for these things haunts us.</SPAN></P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><SPAN><EM>Anything you want</EM> is about running from your dreams and your happiness only to find out that happiness and passion will always be where your heart leads you in the end.</SPAN>"</P> <P class="lia-align-justify"> </P> <P class="lia-align-justify"><A href="spotify:track:5E6BASrrCqn4AaSH2iJO56:small" target="_self">spotify:track:5E6BASrrCqn4AaSH2iJO56:small</A></P> <P> </P> <P><STRONG>Listen to them and much more on the complete playlist</STRONG></P> <P> </P> <P><A href="spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P" target="_self">spotify:playlist:2IYRLjcwf2X9vC0QrI0b0P</A></P> <P> </P> <P>See you next time!</P> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:51:29 GMT osornios 2026-04-27T21:51:29Z #MusicMonday Review - April 2026 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-April-2026/ba-p/7383643 <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, 27 Apr 2026 21:51:29 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/MusicMonday-Review-April-2026/ba-p/7383643 osornios 2026-04-27T21:51:29Z