Seven Fresh Songs #210
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The last time we heard of Vicky Farewell, she confessed her infatuation with an anime character. Similarly lighthearted is her new song “Tern Me On,” and the title gives a hint of how she came up with this chill, dream-along track: “I recorded an improvised take of myself playing and babbling nonsensically until somehow the blueprint for ‘Tern Me On’ was born,” Vicky says.
We have been a fan of Amsterdam-based singer/songwriter néomí for a long time. Now she has announced her debut full-length Someone’s Daughter. “I’ve been honest about things I wasn’t even honest about to my therapist,” she says about the record, and in the latest single, “Someone New,” she reflects on how therapy has worked well for her.
Toby Sebastian is a British actor who starred in Game of Thrones. He is also a serious musician whose latest track, “Down the Westside,” is an infectious jam that came together spontaneously. “I feel the song has an energy that is impossible to resist,” says Toby, and we agree.
“Mind & Body” is about what you might think: letting your mind rest and savoring the present. It is not a mediation song, though the Nigerian-Irish artist Tolü Makay wraps her message into a beautiful, engaging pop song. “‘Mind & Body’ is a reminder to be present. To come together. Not just with yourself, but with each other,” she explains, and we rewind and listen another time to this track.
For the next song, the concept was “emerging from a drunken conversation about the idea of a song with a constant beeping running throughout.” Don’t fast-forward yet because it totally works what Jay Plant, aka Scatterchild, came up with in the end: “Bleep Test” is a melodic, indie rock song for the ages.
The playlist segues nicely into the next track, “L’Île aux bluets.” There are no bleeps, but a fast beat leads the entire song and keeps you on the edge. The new song by Montreal duo Bibi Club is something like a love song, but you can’t help but see a bigger story here.
“I wrote this song when I was in a bad place in my life,” says Maya Von Doll, singer and songwriter of London band Sohodolls. How bad? Read the entire story here. But “What Kinda Love” is not whiny at all but brims with energy and hope. And in the end, everything worked out well for Maya and the Sohodolls.
