Raisin Bran 🌚

~ new monthly playlist!! January 2022 ~

added to regularly, a mix of new tracks from my favourite artists and exciting new discoveries, mostly made via submissions to my music blog (www.coolmusicandthings.co.uk/) - a chance to share things that I enjoy but might not get round to writing a post about :)

for something a bit more heavily curated, check out the blog's main Spotify playlist which I update weekly: open.spotify.com/playlist/3cUmjDhCtwBrilcJMCb4vq

acoustic/folk/chilled playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/47kVuG60PJokywkb74tBob

girls allowed: open.spotify.com/playlist/3GNrMJ29veOfSwdybKq9pO

the CMAT office stereo: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/07UM0wCfNhjcF3XeZMD30n?si=f5e022b6cb654f1d

enjoy

cool music and things: January 2022

January 2022

Winter 2022

Songs of January 2022

https://fortherabbits.net/2022/01/14/five-things-we-liked-this-week-14-01-22/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 14/01/22

[Weekly Mix] 2022.01 (3)

[Hook]
Would you take a ride with me?
Don’t have to do much 
Just want your company

Would you take a ride with me?
The vibe got me convinced that
You were made for me 

[Verse 1]
Had the key to your heart
Caught you giving out spares
Now we growing apart
Had some problems rebuilding myself 
Shed so many tears, I don’t know where to start
The flame went out not spark insight had to climb out the dark
The reason why  I guard myself from the start
Feelings dead had to put em in park 
I been trying to get closer to you 
Lately I been slipping
I think that this bond is overdue 
Maybe I’m just tripping 
Maybe that’s just part of an excuse 
So I don’t admit that I think it’s been time for something new...what’s up with you

[Hook]
Would you take a ride with me?
Don’t have to do much
Just want your company

Would you take a ride with me?
The vibe got me convinced that
You were made for me

Ride (prod. brandybuck)

Upbeat sunshine dancing-in-your-living-room vibe. It's a song about living in the moment, letting your happy hormones do their work instead of worrying about how you come across. Musical inspiration from Zouk La Sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni by Kassav'.

“Now's the only time to be”

Fun facts: Willem plays the kazoo while drumming. The lyrics are partly inspired by Cinderella.

Trip

Artifacts

Fyodor Dormant

Cosmic Sigh

Outlaw Love

anna

happiness

Sunny Boy

HEADSTART

This EP looks at our lives from the last five years but from our current perspective. It looks at the concept of change and how life continues to move in spite of everything that may be going on in your life: the friendships, the obstacles you face and next chapters. What's happened has happened, and whether it was how you intended or you're stuck living with regret is not up to you. It's bittersweet, a reminder of
the good times but also a reminder that they're gone and you can't go back. It's like you're looking at these moments "through a window", like a party you weren't invited to.

Piano Girl

Take It

Night Feet

RESET MY PASSWORD

"Cherry Pie"

Baby, lately
Has our love grown cold with time?
Jaded, tainted
I don’t want to fight

Ooh
I fell into the night
As our love turned blind
When your eyes found mine
Ooh
I’d fool myself in spite
Of your warning lights 
As they shine so bright

I love my cherry pie
I feel alone when I roam my mind
Reeling a paradise in view
I love my cherry pie
I feel whole when you’re by my side
A feeling I’m terrified to lose

Darling, I’m not scared of falling
But holding on to nothing
Is all I’ve ever known
Before you showed

Ooh
I could feel it when you’d come around
We can make it out tonight
Sailing on moonlight
Ooh
I can’t bear to be without it now
I’ve been waiting out the days
Just to hear you say

I love my cherry pie
I feel alone when I roam my mind
Reeling a paradise in view
I love my cherry pie
I feel whole when you’re by my side
A feeling I’m terrified to lose

Faulted prose impose
A rhyme or feud that skews
My sparkling thoughts of you
Should time oppose what’s known
Your love’s a shade of chrome
It’s hard to guess the hue

Cherry Pie

Everything Is Simple

'Chloë and the Next 20th Century' (Release Date: April 8, 2022)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/3rKU6ra
Apple Music: https://u.subpop.com/31zdzjP
Sub Pop Mega Mart: https://megamart.subpop.com/products/father-john-misty_chloe-and-the-next-20th-century
 
Father John Misty: https://fatherjohnmisty.com
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/fatherjohnmisty
Store: http://fatherjohnmisty.store
Tour Dates: http://fatherjohnmisty.com/tour

Sub Pop Records: http://www.subpop.com
MegaMart: https://megamart.subpop.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/subpop
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/subpop
Podcast: http://subpop.fm

Father John Misty - Funny Girl

Nine Lives

Penny Pincher

Hard Drive Gold

EXPIRATION DATE

Coins for the Eyes

Coins for the Eyes: 4/4

Happy New Year

Hell on Earth // Raindrop

Hell On Earth

Say It

Frame

Soundings

"Hotline" (Release date: January 11, 2022)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/3mVTdJa
Apple Music: https://u.subpop.com/3JGraae
Sub Pop Mega Mart: https://megamart.subpop.com/products/lael-neale_hotline

Lael Neale:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laelneale
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laelneale
On Tour: https://www.subpop.com/artists/lael_neale/tours

Sub Pop Records: http://www.subpop.com
MegaMart: https://megamart.subpop.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/subpop
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/subpop
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/subpoprecords
Podcast: http://subpop.fm

Lael Neale - Hotline

You Will Never Work In Television Again

Hey Little Girl is the byproduct of one afternoon practicing the Number System. Curiosity and experimentation with seventh chords led to its unique development. Much like the instrumentation, Hey Little Girl is about contrast and learning to authentically smile through life’s gritty up’s and downs- even when you don’t quite get it right.

Hey Little Girl

Leeds quartet Crake have today announced their debut album, ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’. It arrives via Fika Recordings on April 8th. The band have also shared the album’s lead single, ‘Winter’s Song’. 

Led by enigmatic songwriter Rowan Sandle, Crake is driven by her endless curiosity. Armed with her gently cracking vocal, and inspiration from writers like Shirley Jackson and Nan Shepherd, she sings of crinoids, slime mould and pussy willow. When they supported Buck Meek at Brudenell Social Club, Buck found himself so beguiled by Sandle and her band that he invited them to support Big Thief on their UK and EU tour in 2019. Crake duly obliged and have been building towards their debut full-length ever since. 

Much of the forthcoming album revolves around the death of Sandle’s friend Anna, who died in Syria after being hit by a Turkish air strike. Anna was working for a woman’s liberation group in the war-stricken country when the tragedy took place. ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ explores the grief that followed and the lessons learnt from dealing with such a significant loss. 

Sandle does, however, find space to explore more themes alongside this grief, such as cruelty and queer nature. On lead single ‘Winter’s Song’ she acknowledges the cruelty and coldness that exists within us all, and questions how we can continue to grow and love whilst remaining true to that. 

Speaking about the track, she said: “Winter’s Song is about the absolute mundane beauty of being fallible. It's a true story, I saw the moon rise but swore it was the sun setting. I think about this line a lot: “keep a little coldness in you, just wear it soft and gentle” Be soft, be kind, be honest. Being unremarkable has its own beauty.” 

Sandle’s love for queer nature is so fervent that it makes the experience of listening to Crake akin to that of stumbling on an entirely new world. Sandle believes that life isn’t as black and white as we’ve been taught, and thinks nature holds the key to revealing the true nature of human experience. The appearances of things like slime mould - single-celled organisms that form a single body when in search of food  - brittle starfish - a type of starfish whose awareness isn’t concentrated in one place - and other such oddities furnish ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ with a folklore all of its own. 

‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ will send you down multiple rabbit holes and you’ll emerge from each with a newfound appreciation for the complexities of the world. Perhaps even more important than this though is the humanity that lies at the very heart of this debut full-length. Whether it’s in the sensitivity in how she portrays the loss of her friend, the depiction of our most base instincts - namely cruelty, passion and love - or the sincere, pure quality of the songwriting itself, it’s this that makes ‘Humans’ Worst Habits’ essential, and invaluable listening.

Winter's Song

Crake - Winter's Song

Storm Queen

Raglan

From Young Prisms 3rd album 'Drifter' out March 25th on Fire Talk. 

Pre Order: https://ffm.to/youngprisms

Drifter

Young Prisms - Honeydew

So Long Forever

Live Well

Not Enough

MUSIC VIDEO out now https://youtu.be/LezSCWqVdec

now available on all platforms
https://www.bennettcoast.com/sunsick

mixed, produced, and arranged by Bennett Coast

lyrics:

i made a couple friends last night 
woke up to see the sun staring in my face
i won’t go back to bed this time
i been dreaming bout a day to go run away

my life gets pretty boring
i waste so many mornings

someone says drive there i’m ready to go
backseat ride get my head out the door
sunsick times on my mind, whoa-oh-oh

someone says drive there i’m ready to go
backseat ride get my head out the door
sunsick times on my mind, whoa-oh-oh

gotta get toe on the clutch when I’m whippin the rental
talk too much got a lot on my mental
stay for a month on the west of the central, ooh
 
i made a couple friends last night 
woke up to see the sun staring in my face
i wont go back to bed this time
i been dreaming bout a day to go run away

my life gets pretty boring
i waste so many mornings

someone says drive there I’m ready to go
backseat ride get my head out the door
sunsick times on my mind, whoa-oh-oh

someone says drive there I’m ready to go
backseat ride get my head out the door
sunsick times on my mind, whoa-oh-oh

Sunsick

Fika Recordings is a diy indie[pop] label run from London.
