Vol. 9

Bittersweet

February 2024 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfil those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during February 2024.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the precise moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

Why not promote your track on social media and watch it overtake the play counts on later tracks? Now there's a challenge!

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

Sharing is very, very important !!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, and give us a shoutout on your social media feeds - because if we spot it, it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can - at the very least the one before yours, yours, and the one after yours, to hear how you stack up - and... enjoy!

See also:
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/february-2024-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-february-2024-musical-discoveries
* find us here: https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Downloads help us! :)

February 2024 Discoveries

Spotify

all releases

Intravenous is a very personal account of the internal and external battles we face when dealing with addiction. The darkness you live in after losing everything and the desperation we face when we wonder if we can be saved or are even worth saving.

Intravenous toys with the bands moody, synth based 80's influences such as Gary Numan and Mike Oldfield. Ballad- like in tone, yet brought into shadow by the poignant and personal story-telling. Rather than catapult you along like a roller coaster with no brake, Intravenous creeps around you, lifts you unknowingly, and slowly carries you away like an ebbing tide.

Intravenous

Soul Elixir

A collaboration between Casino Moon and Italian singer-songwriter Erica Mou.

Out of the Rain (feat. Erica Mou)

The dawn of pioneering

Kextfind

Deserve

You Me At Six - Bite My Tongue Feat. Oli

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Stoney

I Fall Apart

Sleeping With Ghosts

Special Needs

two voices - high and low energy - happiness and sadness.

lyrics:

hook:
..lo hello little friend
what's up with you today?
my minds drifting away
have you forgotten what we're up today?
my minds drifting away

whoo, hoo, hohoo
whohoo, hoo, hoohoo

hook:
hello hello little friend
what's up with you today?
my minds drifting away
have you forgotten what we're up today?
my minds drifting away

bridge:
summer set in slow
summer set in you know
summer set in slow
summer set in you know
want you understand
the answers lying in your hands
lying gridlocked semitone shit talk
so close yet hidden in the dark

whoo, hoo, hohoo
whohoo, hoo, hoohoo

hook

whoo, hoo, hohoo
whohoo, hoo, hoohoo

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moody

Alternative Hip-Hop redefined
photography by Dominic Aloisio: https://bit.ly/2QdKPCP

Lyrics:

Verse1:
I sit on lands edge with sands and water beds
Blending in with the difference and distance that it spreads
The lessons of the said, the missions of the dread
Too many listen to the voices playing in their heads

The minutes time sheds, the seconds on the ledge
The moment of fight or flight despite who’s praying for the dead
The hours on your bed spent staring at the red
Instead, you should be seeking watersheds

Hook:
4x I'm stepping my game up today, there'll be no other day

Verse2:
From the corner of my mind I still hear laughter
Faint views of green pastures, happy ever afters
The music still floats on a lake of old boats
That anchor to the land, a vision full of quotes 

I feel the age in my bones, the wind at my back
- That beaten path leads me off track
Imperfect circles, a diamond in the rough
Around the edges tough, still human in the bluff

I have flaws that are raw, things you never saw
Skeleton keys that lead to drop jaw
People in the awe, the autumn of the soul
The leaves begin to brown, the bottom of the cold

I feel the energy shifting from day to days
People above and below ground bound the sound wave
Beauty in the grays like flowers on a grave
Where Black Hole Suns wash the rain away

Bridge:
So what they say to me, so what they gave me
so install your means ya, install your means ya
So what they say to me, so what they gave me
so install your means ya, install your means ya

...times running out ya, times running out ya

Hook

Verse3:
At the end of the day we’re just a kin of skin and cloned bones
Trying to make it on our own, a place to call home
The reaches that we roam, we overturn stones
The places that we stay will shape our path grown

The faces that we’ve shown, the same we’ve ever known
The beaches that we roam stoned and claim for the poem
Nostalgia reel to reels but you don’t like how it feels
So you carry it with your conscience and bury the real deal 

There's danger in the crowd I’ll browse the out skirts
From the outside in, I search for what it's worth
The valley of the shadows, the seasons of the earth
The good and bad battles, the beacon of my verse 

The sounds of falling down even with no one around
Out of sight, out of mind, out of time, outer bounds
They try to bury us but don't know that we are seeds
Our roots dig deep and plant a canopy of trees

no other day (feat. attaccan sccrolls)

first track of my upcoming EP

lyrics:

verse1:
think about should you go
living my life to slow
think about why I'm running
thinking about you every day
looking back to years of growth
you falling every time you know
still on the hunt for the truth
find resort in the groove

everything you wanna say
anything it is o.k.
every single future day
may your life turn into gray
to gray 
and on the outside
I'm fading away
and on the inside
emerging the day... cause

2x hook:
I'm o.k. now
I'm fully awake now
I'm o.k. with the now now
I'm o.k. now
I'm fully awake now
and I have to go (now)

bridge:
dumping my mind
with leftover time
I hurry and worry 
and waste my time
iterations walk the line
caught in the illusion

2x hook

verse2:
I want to be
somewhere with you
another place
within in the blue
somewhere to go
something to find
something to do
to kill some time
I think I found 
myself in you
I changed my mind
embraced the new
and I still don't know you...

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o.k.

Trunk Muzik Returns

Tennessee Love

btw... this was recorded with my ~200$ 2004 Ibanez Gio e-guitar.

lyrics:

hook:
now that I played my guitar all day
now that I played my guitar all day (all day, all day)
now that I played my guitar all day
for a second this life seemed a-ok

verse 1:
lost my trace in hallways
not allways I miss you
singing songs about stale days
not always I miss you
preprocessed thoughts into my head
made me wish of something I didn't understand
and it's getting all out of my hands
getting back to the things I want to do every day

hook

artwork by beeple:
https://www.facebook.com/beeple/

guitar all day

lyrics:

verse1:
so the day goes
I feeling so cold
driving back back
where I last met you
it's getting dark now
switching lanes to
walk in the sunlight
but it's still dark tho
I feeling limb and a bit dull inside
don't you wanna follow me onto the other side
under the sunlight
everything seems bright
but it's no time
for the sun to shine

chorus:
what have you
been up to
I forgot
to ask you
but I fought
without you
I'm sorry 
what you've been through
give me your hand
follow you down
out of my mind
we've got no time
now we transcend 
looking around
out of your mind
and no more time

verse2:
what you wanna do today
do you wanna spend your day with me
your words so colorful
don't dare the day to go
hollow inside of me
or we meet inside of you
talk about things we don't understanding
I'm taking what you're handing
hold on to some things and
live life like I'm spending
colorblind I'm ending
receiving life you're sending
no matter how long
there is no solution
cooling down my mind in a hectic
no more planning my days like a tactic

bridge:
I lose I'm losing ground
I wish you were around
I had to leave this town for the sake of nothing at all
in order to understand my own ways again
I'm painting new pictures and I'm painting again
fill up empty space with all the things that I chase
doing things my own pace still running in their race

chorus

cover artwork:
https://www.facebook.com/beeple/

out of my mind

White Wolf

Hi folk!
What better opportunity to write songs when you're indoors to escape the Corona virus.
Greetings from Italy!
I am still alive!
(headphones recommended)
Italian lyric below

Nessuno sa 
quando tutto finirà
Intanto c’è chi fugge
In preda al panico
Uscire è un delitto
Non è più un diritto
Se resti a casa 
forse si risolverà

Nelle corsie la polmonite decima 
coloro che la guerra un giorno risparmiò
Non basta la tempra
Ci vuole fortuna
e speri che oggi ci sia un letto anche per te

Le crisi sai son’opportunità
E rallentare al corpo certo gioverà
Stai un po' con le mani in mano
Il ritmo circadiano
E resta accanto a chi vuoi bene per un po’

Io intanto passo il tempo a scrivere
canzoni che qualcuno forse ascolterà
ma ho voglia di uscire
di stendermi al sole
così l’apocalisse 
vivo mi troverà.

Virus

I rearranged this loop/track from an improvised live stream on twitch.

Here's my twitch channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/fromether

On my channel I do improvised jams on my Acoustic Guitar. Or I'll jam on my Strat and Tele using my pedalboard. I'll share my recording and production workflow in Ableton Live as well from time to time. I'll gladly provide info about my gear and recording process.

Music Video

dreamy loop

Siena

Al Shalliker is a singer-songwriter and musician from the city of Plymouth in England. The lead songwriter for Plymouth band Watershed, who were prolific live performers nationwide over a period of more than 20 years, Al is now producing music as a solo artist. His debut album, ‘Silver Linings’, released on 26th April 2021, features the two singles ‘Where all the Music Comes From’ and ‘The Voyage’.
 
Watershed’s early music was heavily influenced by reggae and soul but there was always a significant diversity to Al’s songwriting, which gave the band their own distinctive sound. Watershed self-produced their debut album, ‘Moves’, in 1995, which enabled them to secure a record deal. The two albums that followed, ‘Strange Days and Dynamite’ (2002) and particularly ‘The Eyes of Eli Wallach’ (2006), saw the band gradually take on more of a folk-rock style, again marked by the ingenuity of Al’s songcraft.
 
Al’s new solo album, ‘Silver Linings’, which is embellished by a number of guest musicians, features a fresh reworking of a few of his older songs but is mostly made up of previously unreleased new material. Influenced by the classic songwriters yet highly original, ‘Silver Linings’ is a powerful representation of Al’s inimitable style, made relevant for a 2021 audience.
 
‘Where All the Music Comes From’ released on 5th April 2021
 
‘Where All the Music Comes From’ is the opening track and first single from Al Shalliker’s 2021 debut solo album, ‘Silver Linings’. Although initially written a number of years ago, the song was completely reinvented for this project. Featuring hook-driven harmonica playing and layered with harmony, ‘Where all the Music Comes From’ is suggestive of the folk-rock scene of the late 1960s while viewing loss and the art of songwriting from more than one perspective.
 
 ‘The Voyage’ released on 23rd April 2021
 
‘The Voyage’ is the second single from Al Shalliker’s 2021 debut solo album, ‘Silver Linings’. An infectious alt-folk song with an evocative, modern narrative, ‘The Voyage’ relates to some of the difficulties we encounter as we journey through life.

dreamy loop

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