kibbe 6/17/20 kibbe 6/17/20

#diSKOAverweekly: Week of June 17, 2020

Hello it’s your friendly playlist junkie poking her adorable lil head out to say hello. I had all of these lovely things to say about all of these songs but then the entire day just kind of imploded so next update (which will not be in two months sorry sorry sorry but also not sorry) will be thorough and what you deserve. You just really need to hear all of these things because they’re what have been keeping me sane. Maybe I will come back in and edit this up to my standards but for now please enjoy lots of love. 💖

Onsen - “Be There”
HUMANS - “Beggin”
Anthony & Cleopatra - “Why Don’t You Just Call Me”
Midnight Pool Party - “Nonchalant”
CLYPSO - “D.Y.S. (Defend Your Situation)”
James Indigo - “Cxntour”
Anoraak - “Between Love (feat. Outside The Disco)”
RAC - “Change The Story (feat. Jamie Lidell)
Approachable Members Of Your Community - “Only Friend”
Miro Shot - “Someone Else’s House”
Dumbfounded - “Outside (feat. SATICA)”
JR JR - “This Side of Paradise”
Duck Sauce - “I Don’t Mind”
Le Couleur - “Concorde”
JEANA - “808 (How Would You Like It like That)?”
Jamie Lane - “Sweet/Bitter”
Martin Luke Brown - “J.O.Y.”
JMR - “Cheap Happiness”
Young & Sick - “CAN I CHANGE”
Steve Cousins - “Start Again”
Jake Isaac - “10 Steps To Heaven”
Day Wave - “Crush”
Nana Adjoa - “Love and Death”
Poté - “Lonely”
Husky Loops - “You Bore Me”
Blonder - “Bees In The Sun”
Timi Temple - “Fa-Fa-Fading”
Bombay Bicycle Club - “I Can Hardly Speak”
tiLLie - “The Heart”
Genesis Owusu - “Don’t Need You”
Vacationer - “Treat”
Mark Ronson - “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (feat. Raissa)”

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[SONG OF THE DAY] Laux - "A Long Way From Love"

Last week Wexford, Ireland singer-songwriter Laux has unveiled, “A Long Way From Love”, the followup track to his debut single, “Rain”. While “Rain” gently introduced us to his striking vocals, “A Long Way From Love” is where we get to see that he knows exactly how to use it to leave you straight up shook. While the song is quite raw from a songwriting standpoint, I don’t think I would be as equally devastated every time the chorus ends if someone other than Laux were singing this. Born out of confusion and heartbreak back in 2017, the track encapsulates the heart wrenching moments of a relationship’s painful end. Laux shared, “The song is about me trying to move on from what I thought was a broken relationship and something that could easily be replaced, only to realize that what we had was irreplaceable and just ‘A Long Way from Love’”

Both “A Long Way From Love” and “Rain” are from his forthcoming debut EP, Rain, which is due out later this year.

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[SONG OF THE DAY] Aubrey Haddard - "Thin Line"

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Today Brooklyn based Aubrey Haddard (and future best friend, I hope) shares her latest track, “Thin Line” along with accompanying music video. I have been waiting ALL WEEK (and a bit longer than that if I’m being honest) to share this one with you. Tell you what, this is the kinda bad bitch energy I intend to be strutting out of quarantine with. Every time I play this song (which has been at least 3 times a day) I pick up these Ladyhawke meets 90s era Sheryl Crow vibes, where she strikes this sophisticated balance of modern indie pop while maintaining an overall rich analog feel to her sound. I suppose you could say it walks a….. thin line…. between retro and modern.

Speaking on the track, Aubrey shared, "The song kind of touches on the factors in my life that tend to push me over that line between sanity and chaos, but it's mostly about feeling. A little uneasy and a lot of fun."

kibbe 5/21/20 kibbe 5/21/20

[SONG OF THE DAY] Brix - "Call Me Naïve, But I Guess I Thought If The World Was Ending, You Would Call"

So I had a completely different SOTD picked for today but in addition to the vibe not feeling right, I happened to tumble into something much more powerful.

Enter: Brooklyn-based quarantining COVID-surviving chanteuse, Brix (born Sophie Dupin).

I should have known the second I saw the title that it was going to deliver a swift kick right in the feels, but my curiosity needed to know what a song titled, “Call Me Naïve, But I Guess I Thought If The World Was Ending, You Would Call”.

Y’all.

Speaking on the track, Brix shared, “I wanted to share my story so that if even just one person felt a little less alone, then it was worth it.“

🥺

In addition to this song being so deeply vulnerable and beautifully executed by Brix, the accompanying video for the song equally packs its own wallop. Recorded throughout the course of her quarantine (and subsequent successful battle with COVID-19), she took to her balcony on the daily to record herself performing in quarantine, leaving little notes for days that stood out throughout the process. In addition to this being a diary of sorts for herself, this is such a time capsule for what the experience of quarantining in New York has been like, all the way to the very end of the video (no spoilers here from me).

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[SONG OF THE DAY] Starflyer 59 - "This Recliner"

I cannot believe in spite of my decades long lovefest with SoCal’s Starflyer 59 that I have missed the opportunity to make sure that y’all were hip to the homey. I guess it’s been wrong of me to assume that not everyone listens to shoegaze or dreampop records and thinks, “I wonder which SF59 record they played in the studio when [insert band name] were working on [song/album]”. Sometimes I try to guess to myself just for fun. With 15 full-length albums and a slew of EPs and singles spanning his 25 year career, I’ve always treasured SF59 as constant that I can always come home to and be delighted to find more to love every single time.

That all said, frontman Jason Martin is not showing any signs of slowing down, releasing “This Recliner” off his forthcoming EP, Miami, which is out on June 19th courtesy of the longtime loved label Velvet Blue Music. Following up last year’s LP, Young In My Head, the track recounts Martin’s worry, discomfort, and the yearning to feel safe and well after spending a handful of nights in the hospital back in February for reasons he’s chosen to not disclose. Here’s hoping all is in the clear now. 💖

velvet blue music · STARFLYER 59 - This Recliner

kibbe 5/19/20 kibbe 5/19/20

[SONG OF THE DAY] All Things Blue - "Chad"

Stepping out with one hell of a first impression, Los Angeles pysch-pop outfit All Things Blue have unveiled their debut single, “Chad”, from their forthcoming debut album Get Bit, due later this year. There’s so much to love about “Chad”. Well, except for the ‘Chad’ of a dude that frontwoman India Coombs is singing about.

Finding yourself suckered into the giving end of a situationship is incredibly exhausting and frustrating, if not rage inducing. The way that Coombs was able to encapsulate that very feel into her vocal performance is really the big winner of the song here. Although that’s not to say that the hazy lovestruck soundscapes that her vocals nestle into aren’t equally crucial, but damn if I don’t have the urge to yell, “TELL👏🏻HIM👏🏻GIRL” at her most belty moments.

Speaking on the track, Coombs shared, “See-saws are fun until you're riding an emotional see-saw; when you want someone that doesn't want you, but makes sure to keep you around. Sometimes you only realize in retrospect; that person was just a Chad.”

Also fun little factoid for you before I peace out: at the end of the song they left a clip from the recording session in. Apparently Coombs was holding co-founder Jon Joseph’s week old baby while she was recording vocals for the track and the baby FELL ASLEEP DURING THAT TAKE. HOWWWW!?!?! 😂

kibbe 5/18/20 kibbe 5/18/20

[SONG OF THE DAY] Big Black Delta - "Lord Only Knows"

Omg cute internet people I have the BEST NEWS TO SHARE!

My most favoritest man crush Monday, Jonathan Bates, better known to y’all as Big Black Delta has announced that we’re getting a fourth BBD full-length AND he further blessed us with a new single, “Lord Only Knows”. This dramatic little ditty that he’s just casually launched into the universe is such an exciting evolution for Bates and his signature sound that comes through in all the right moments on this track. It’s loud. It’s lush. It’s certainly not what I was expecting what would follow lead single from back in March, “Summoner”, which makes me love it all the more. Anyone who listens to “Lord Only Knows” for a whopping 30 seconds would not be the least bit surprised that Bates has recently rekindled his romance with heavy metal. The sharp left-turn to that Liberace moment, though. *chef’s kiss* That’s when things go next-level. The track isn’t long enough for me to toss it in a rock opera-esque kinda category, but if ever there were to be an extended edit of this song, I can only imagine the places it would go.

As previously mentioned, “Lord Only Knows” comes from Big Black Delta’s [now HIGHLY FUCKING ANTICIPATED] forthcoming album, LP4, which is available for pre-order now and drops on July 10th. From first glance at the tracklisting, hopefully I don’t have to wait very long to know what a song called, “Air Conditioned Dork” sounds like and I am already bracing myself for what something titled “Ballad of the Co-Dependent” is probably going to do to me. Regardless, the t-shirt + LP combo pre-order is calling my name, possibly that slick mask, too?

While we wait, please enjoy the third installment from director Adam Osgood, who previously provided the BBD universe with videos for, “Huggin & Kissin” and “Bitten By The Apple”. At this rate I would totally watch a movie exploring this father-daughter relationship that continues throughout all three videos, if only to clarify the timeline going on here. Does god-dad get to go back in time once he becomes god-dad so he can accidentally kill the dinosaurs? Did god-dad always know he was a deity? I have so many questions, lmao.

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Release Date: July 10, 2020
01. Lord Only Knows
02. Vessel
03. Politics Of Living
04. Summoner
05. Ballad Of The Co-Dependent
06. Sunday
07. Heaven Here I Come
08. Canary
09. White Lies
10. Killing Me
11. Air Conditioned Dork
12. Yes

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[Album Review] Miro Shot - 'Content'

In the final track, “Boston Dynamic”, off Miro Shot’s debut EP Servers, recently my mind has casually fixated on a lyric quite frequently as we complete our 2nd month of quarantine in New York,

“As soon as we begin again I’ll restore our fallen friends.”

Since I have been granted the honor of getting albums in advance, I had already been playing their debut full-length, Content, for quite some time before the world ground to a halt. I had also already written something quite lovely about the album, delighted with myself that a cohesive group of words actually came to me that quickly about a record that I was obviously very taken with. However, as it came time to publish those words, the context of how this album would enter the world completely changed. Even so, listening to Content with a totally different perspective of the world, I firmly stand by my stance that Miro Shot is the soundtrack to the future we deserve. I know that in addition to this whole ordeal shining a light on the multitude of societal problems across the globe that a lot of people have been saying that they’re devoting some portion of their quarantine taking stock in their pre-quarantine lives and thinking about the types of changes they want to make for themselves and their communities. It is my hope that Content be included in a portion of that meditative process.

Opening with, “A World You Made Yourself”, the broody track kicks off the album’s venture into self-exploration, thoughtfully navigating the boundless complexities of our very modern, very online world. Tackling society’s cumbersome relationship with technology and all that it entails, from the rampant online harassment women often face to the way that social media distorts our realities while disguising itself as a way to “connect” to our loved ones and everything in between, Content is essentially that moment when you decide to switch your phone to airplane mode and shift your focus to where you’re at in that very instance, as well as every subsequent screen tap once you switch back for that matter.

Tracks that hit so differently since the world changed: “Joined At The Hip”, album closer “I.R.L.”, with the most dramatic transformation being, “Seven Seas”, featuring Mary Wilson of Supremes fame. I already revered the track as a stunning glitch gospel in its own right, but the imagery that the chorus alone evokes in the current climate is enough to simultaneously warm your heart and send shivers down your spine:

“When you’re lost but you can’t stand the silence / When your face looks nothing it used to do / When the sand has shifted instead / And that crown was pulled from your head / I’ve got you and you’ve got me.”

Without a doubt the world is going to be a very different place post-pandem. Hopefully it’s a world as full of potential as Miro Shot envisions, mindful of the obstacles we need to address in order to succeed. The cosmic timeliness of this band and the relevancy of Content and the future it stands for, especially right now, is something I sincerely hope folks won’t sleep on.

Content is available now on all DSPs.

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