#MusicMonday Review - July 2023

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#MusicMonday 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 June's review for more music.

Love, work, relationships, and social media. This is how modern lives are entangled, and music can reflect our take on them. Have a listen, and read a word from the artists themselves. 🎧

Scarlet Street – Mazda Miata & Clinical Depression

I tried doing the right thing
But it’s an albatross to me
Keep getting caught in my own wake

You wanted honesty? Yeah you were right about me.
Cause more harm then I let on.
You wanted empathy? Get better friends than me.

Cincinnati, Ohio is our starting point with a Pop Punk track about causing every problem that the band find themselves in:

"I’d say this song is pretty autobiographical, it’s about a time in my life when I felt like I was taking advantage of people feeling sorry for me and I wasn’t being a very good friend. I think a lot of times people can only see what’s going on with someone on the surface and you can unfortunately fool people pretty easily by faking emotions and that’s a lot of what this one is about."

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Mr. Bliss – Satélite

Quizá la mañana se lleve todos esos recuerdos

Que me hacen escapar de la realidad

Por mucho tiempo

Pensé que las ideas serían

tan solo cosas de un momento

y ya no se a donde ir

Los escenarios repetidos

en mi mente

para entender

Now let's move to Merida, Mexico for a Pop Rock ballad about being lost in the night with your own thoughts:

"The song is inspired in love stories, that as well as all things in the Universe has a start and an ending, but within those two lines there is separation and togetherness both physical and emotional. So that is why we decided to talk about the sea, the moon, the night, the morning and elements that describe metaphorically the journey of a love story."

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Winter Leaves – Feel

Your lies don’t hurt anymore
I can’t feel, a damn thing
You let those demons in
I keep them all within

Your demons dragged you away
You never came to see me play
You left me all the shame
You and I, we’re the same

From sunny Mexico, we land now in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a Rock track about losing track about yourself, and reality, for a passionate relationship:

"The song is about toxic love and it’s consequences.

And the song was in the finals in a songwriting contest at Radio X, Iceland’s biggest rock station.😁"

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Delta Crash – Set it Right

Maybe our sanity goes

you lose focus

even more

Ghent, Belgium, is our next stop, with an atmospheric Indie Rock track, about the struggles of a long, psychedelic day at work:

"It's a track about work that feels never done being a creative. About the perks of endless fine tuning . How something never feels finished until the deadline is there."

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Filibuster – Can't Unfriend Yourself

Why they call it youth

Cuz its never yours

You add up the years

But they never amount

You failed to hide

The screens too bright

Keep the pain inside

Can’t unfriend yourself

Can’t unfollow your feelings

We move from dreamy Ghent to noisy Antwerp for a Post Punk track that deals with social media as someone's identity, where the content is fake but the cover art is true. Band member Karl explains:

"Usually the first words I write are random, and it only starts making sense or coming together later. I think I had a vague idea about aging, looking back and wondering who you were, which you can hear in the first verse.

Generally the song turned out to be generally about struggling to like yourself and not being able to escape being you. Specifically about how someone's online persona reflects thus.

It's a digital veil that should hide or embellish who we are, but ends up betraying more about ourselves if anyone bothers to look through the charade. Your social media profile ends up becoming a sort of shrine to your own insecurities and flaws.

I couldn't give you a specific inspiration apart from, you know, being a person haha

Maybe a possible inspiration is when I found out I could assume that when certain people's posting frequency went up, that they were either having a tough time and probably just turned single and started creating a new identity."

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Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist

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See you next month!