Seven Fresh Songs #209
“lies” is about an “elusive, stoic, inscrutable girl, capable of hypnotizing you with a glance and breaking your heart,” which is not how Giorgia Piva aka georgia, georgia sees herself. But for three minutes of this delectable pop song, she takes on that role as “a sort of revenge for all the times I felt misunderstood, portrayed as someone I am not.”
iskwē is a Canadian musician we will see at the New Colossus Festival. Her new song, “A Little Piece,” came to life on a magical winter night at the Banff Centre for the Arts. “I allowed the moment to just hold me, and me it, as the song fell from my tears onto the keys.”
“Monopoly” is the new track from the singer/songwriter mentioned above Yndling. The bright, shimmering synth-pop song takes cues from the 80s, and is it just me who can hear something of fellow Norwegian act a-ha here?
The Irish, London-based singer/songwriter Tadgh Daly tells a very contemporary love story about two “emotionally broken and unavailable people falling in love” in his song “How’s your day been?” The pop song mounts into a big finale, and you root for its characters.
gglum is the stage name of Ella Smoker from London. Don’t let this lead you on the wrong track: her music is not gloomy at all, and the fourth single “Eating Rust” of her upcoming album The Garden Dream is a lively indie pop track, albeit about a difficult time in her life. “It’s all about a period of my life where I was desperate for one person’s love and approval, which I would never get,” she recalls.
“Double Decker Death Machine” is a raucous indie rock track that recalls the moment Newcastle-based musician Melanie Baker found new inspiration in a Patti Smith interview. “It’s meant to be a bit fun and silly but also the weight of the words are still meant to act as a reminder for me to keep going,” she says.
We regard the German-based, UK-raised singer/producer/composer Emika as a „founding artist“ of glamglare, a group of female artists in the early 2010s that inspired us with fresh approaches to indie rock and electronic music. Emika now announced her fifth electronic studio album HAZE for May 31, not counting many more records with experimental or classical music. „((star key)),“ the first single is an electronic pop gem taking Emika’s signature sound to a new direction.
