#MusicMonday Review - October 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 September's review for more music.

This month's music is all about love, and addiction, which may not be far from each other. Go ahead, give it a listen, and reflect, with a word from the artists themselves. 🎧

SweetLipp – Roxy

Take us on a highway drive
The moonlight is waiting on the broken tide
Let us go where we can sing
We are free for the first time

We saw your name in the neon light
Rolling with joyful spring
And the silence of our minds
Oh won't you take us far away
Where are hearts can radiate

Our trip begins in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, for a Psych Surf Rock track, complete with a mid song break, about those protective wheels full of memories of a life left behind:

"Roxy is actually about a 30ft RV we bought in Canada to travel from Vancouver to Montreal. We called her Roxy, after a club we always wound up in Van.

There was 6 of us on the adventure and it was the time of our lives. We met amazing people, did amazing things and we were completely wild and free.

We'll never forget it and we decided to write a song about Roxy, the perfect ship that allowed it all to happen."

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Futura Boombox & The Midnight Mass – Candelaria

Bésame con esos labios tuyos

No seas insensible, entiende mi dolor

Cierra esos ojos negros tuyos

Y dime otra vez que me amarás

Ya poco a poco olvido tu voz

Ahora se que la culpa era de los dos

Quisiera ver esos ojos negros tuyos

Y escuchar otra vez que me amarás

¡Oh, ya no puedo más!

Next up, from Laredo, TX, a dark Post Punk track in which you end up accepting the fact that she will eventually kiss someone else's lips:

"As a songwriter, we sometimes pull from experience or we draw from stories we hear.

For Candelaria, the inspiration came from stories of people I knew growing up. Some of these relationships were very toxic and others were bittersweet, but all of them shared a longing for connection.

Through the song I wanted to express these experiences and the challenging process of moving on. I wanted to write something that people were going to relate to and maybe find solace in the fact that they were not alone."

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The Roster – Where's He Been?

Why try

To fight it

When it goes away just like yesterday come on

Slow me

Quickly

Figuring out how you knew all along

Suddenly I knew it all along

From Derby, UK, this Indie Rock song invites us to stop asking questions, or complaining. Do we ever learn?:

"I think the overall seances is about mad and messy nights out and the chaos that comes with it. 😂

I wouldn't say there was a specific incident which inspired the song but more of a generalization of ridiculous moments when you're spannered hahaha"

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SCATTERED ASHES – Battles

A story of sorrow
A story of shame
Broken and hollow
Can’t remember my name
But you follow me
Follow me down...

Never strayed so far afield
Trapped inside but you still appealed
And now you’re standing there
Can’t turn around or you’ll just stare

Let's move to Dublin, Ireland, for another Post Punk track about picking up the pieces of someone you care, who's falling apart. Looking away is not an option:

"Battles speaks of the dire consequences of addiction. Lost in its throes, you begin to shed your own humanity, becoming a slave to both desire and the chaos that accompanies it. Redemption can seem further and further away as you even become unrecognizable to yourself.

It's a sombre meditation on despair and fragility in a finite world, as well as man's capacity for change.

Battles casts a rather acute spotlight on the shame associated with addiction and the long road to recovery, hence the title. It has been an issue for the band in the past, but one that bound us together in a lot of ways."

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Anemone – Freebird

Spread your wings
and come to me
I've made a cozy little place
up in the trees

Settle down
you don't need to be alone
when we're together
we fly out the way to the sun

You're a freebird
with the color blue
but remember
you know I'm that color too

Finally, we end up in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, for a folky love song about freedom to go away for a while, and the anticipation to be together again, so happy and strong:

"The song is inspired by a painting my wife made. It's an original painting, and it's in the videoclip of the song.

She's not a musician, but of course she’s my inspiration.

She's my wife :)"

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Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist

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See you next month!