#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 March's review for more music.
This month's post is very special, as it only features music submitted by the artists themselves. So put your headphones, take a listen, and read on. 🎧
Bryan Chua - Found
So this is how love’s meant to feel
Feel’s like it was made just for me
A love that I found that I thought I’d never deserve
A love I thought only existed in movie screens
"The song is inspired by stories from my own personal relationship! I'd been trying to write a 3/4 time signature love song for the longest time, and Found came together pretty soon after I'd just gotten into a relationship. So a lot of the song and its lyrics are based on this relationship!"
Foundry13 - Lost in Emotions
But I ain’t got the best seat
While still in London, and speaking of emotions, this track reminds us that feeling lost can be inspiring too, and music can help us find a way:
"I would say that the situation the world has found itself in was the ultimate situation that inspired us to write this song. We’ve been wanting to create a song which highlights a moment of true clarity from the speaker, where he is evaluating his past and how his life has turned out so far, trying to understand why his life has not gone to plan. We like to explore issues on mental health as we want people to not feel alone if they are going through something like that. And also to make people smile and relate to what we are creating."
Fusazi - Elevate
Shifting gears, sometimes songs come from a flow, a moment in time, and this track is a great example of it:
"Honestly, I just walked in to my room mates room who happens to my producer. He put on a beat he had made in class and the hook just came randomly and I stucked with it.
Alarmantiks! - El Momento
intentando averiguar
si estuvo bien o estuvo mal
Nos hace tanta falta
que no vemos con claridad
que estabamos tan cerca
We now go to Madrid, Spain for a cool indie rock track that reminds us to not overthink things too much, and keep it in the moment:
"It's a song that talks about getting over frustration and past mistakes.
Camens - Handbrake
"Handbrake is about the car times. When you're old enough to drive but not to drink and you and a girlfriend would spend hours driving around with nowhere to go. Maccies drive through, cigarette stops on a supermarket car park, shuffle on the iPod, just driving and around together because there’s nothing better to do."
Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist
See you next month!