#MusicMonday Review - March 2025

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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 February's review for more music.

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.
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Seaker – Lately

I’d give you part of myself
If I could handle it
It ain’t been feeling so easy lately

You gave me your hand
Made it real
You let me know about it
When things weren’t folding so neatly baby

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:

"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.

I guess it's kind of a love song, but more a support song. If this makes sense!"

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Club Silencio – Somewhere in a Limestone Cave in Pennsylvania

Sundial sayings are always sad
Tedious and brief the way things last
The last hour’s hidden so watch them all
It’s locked somewhere inside a vault
It’s all somewhere in a limestone cave
In Pennsylvania

If these walls could talk what would they say?
What would they say?
If these walls could talk, am I right?
Am I right?

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:

"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.

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.

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.

The instrumental was similar where everyone collaborated and built on each other's ideas."

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New State Masses – Curtains Up

Another week has gone too soon
of living life in reverse
But what we’re not supposed to do
Is ever shout aloud or speak so lend me your ear and I’ll tell it all to you

I walked a line untrue for you.
So I've cut a mark in the dirt
You hoped my bottle was lost too soon

to ever shout aloud speak

lend me your ear and I'll tell it all to you

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:

"Curtains Up was my weapon and my protection in overcoming PTSD, putting those who'd wronged me in the past and finally turning the tables.

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.

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."

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Ryan McMurtry – Full Picture

One of these days
I'll drive away
chase the dawn

I'll never see full picture
floating down this river
tired of gazing at the past
and holding on like a ride

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:

"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."

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Found Instruments – You're Not Alone

Sometimes I don’t feel like myself,

and I just can’t figure it out

I thought you were drifting away

Sometimes I don't know what to say

I keep waiting on you

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:

"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."

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Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist

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See you next month!