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Discover the best new indie/pop/folk music in our May 2022 playlist! Thank you for listening and for supporting independent artists :)

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"Raindrop" appears on the new Tall Heights album, Juniors, out now. 

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Lyrics:
Let me know when we should go and I'll go get my car,
and I'll drop you at the airport, no it’s not that far.
I don't wanna get closer than we are... than we are.

I can tell you want glory that you’re gonna get.
In my dream I keep on floating down the watershed
and I know we're getting closer, but we're not there yet... not there yet.

I'll be the raindrop, and come down,
flow over the middle into the end.
We'll make the rain stop. Come down!
How can we begin there?
I’ll be a friend.

And you're weary eyed and broken by a new goodbye.
Doing nothing wrong, I'm hoping for an alibi.
I can see you’re on a journey of a tidal wave,
so come down into this solace, let it get away

and be the raindrop. Come down,
flow over the middle into the end.
And make the rain stop,and come down.
How can we begin there?

There's enough about tomorrow that we know today
to come down into this sorrow in another way,
and who knows what will be waiting, so let it get away.

Be the raindrop,
and come down.
Flow over the middle into the end.
We’ll make the rain stop,
calm down,‘
cause someone else is in there.
I’ll be a friend.

Raindrop

Blue and Golden

Castaway

The first single from my forthcoming ‘Rapture EP’

Something New

Rings Of Saturn

Already Want You Back is Township duo's latest release. This song is about missing someone before they have even left.

Already Want You Back

Sadie, Why Don't You Love Yourself

Debut Album 'Overflow' out now.
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The Calm You Keep

Islands

Flowers In Your Hair

Each of the 11 tracks of “Beautiful Wasteland” takes you on an introspective journey as Jordan shares lines from his own journals of love, loss, grief, and solidarity. Frye’s songwriting belongs to a tradition of storytelling-rich lyricists like Sufjan Stevens, but is infused with the energy of indie-alt pop experimenters like Shawn Mendes or Ed Sheeran. Channeling the essence of James Taylor, the anthemic heights of Brandon Flowers, and nostalgic sounds of Snow Patrol or Keane, this album is sure to be your soundtrack of the year.

Beautiful Wasteland

Heartbeat

Jordan Frye - Heartbeat

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Lyrics:
I'm calling out another you
No pushing down - we're pushing through
The outrage, the elegy
It's different now, but nothing new
You follow me - I follow you
Into the night in circles

No recall of a last round
All along buried face down
To be found in a dried out sea
I see the low from the high ground
I'm putting out old fires now
Letting go adolescent dreams

I'm calling off another me
Wounded pride - jealousy
Hard to hide like blood stains
All in all gravity
Made us fall, made us fall
Through the clouds in circles

No recall of a last round
All along buried face down
To be found in a dried out sea
I see the low from the high ground
I'm putting out old fires now
Letting go adolescent dreams

Letting go adolescent dreams

Adolescent dreams

I see the low from the high ground
Putting out the old fire now
Letting go adolescent dreams

Old Fires

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Lake House - Far Away

Chelou - 'Weight / Just A Little Blip' Out Now: https://ffm.to/weightjustalittleblip

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Just A Little Blip

Seasick

From the album Retreat to Bliss available March 25, 2022 on Western Vinyl.  
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Since the release of his last album – 2017’s Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno – pianist and singer-songwriter Tom Rogerson’s life has undergone a number of dramatic transformations. While writing his new album Retreat to Bliss, Rogerson had a child, lost a parent, and received his own diagnosis of a rare form of blood cancer. The new decade brought him from Berlin to the Suffolk of his childhood, composing profound pieces of minimal songwriting in the church next to his parents’ home. 

Rogerson studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under mentors like Harrison Birtwistle, and he made his live debut as an improvising pianist in 2002, before releasing an improvised record with Reid Anderson (Bad Plus) and Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Bon Iver) in 2004. He formed the band Three Trapped Tigers in 2007, expertly blending elements of electronic, jazz and noise rock into a cohesive whole. The band earned a reputation for innovative live shows and went on to perform and collaborate with artists like Brian Eno, Deftones, and the Dillinger Escape Plan. It was working with Eno, another Suffolk native, that eventually led Rogerson back to his roots and back to a place where he could write Retreat to Bliss, his solo debut album.

“All my life, the piano has been my constant companion, my confessor, my best friend, and my worst enemy,”  Rogerson explains. “I’ve always written music on and for the piano, but it felt too personal, too private to release.”

Indeed, listening to Retreat to Bliss feels almost like eavesdropping, as though you’re crouched in the belfry of a Suffolk church, bearing witness to a form of musical bloodletting. For the first time in his noteworthy career, Rogerson has combined masterful piano playing and subtle electronics with the texture of his own voice, an attempt to express deeply private emotions that were difficult to articulate using instrumental music alone. 

“The last few years have brought some struggle, some joy, and a lot of change. My response has been to retreat to what I trust the most: the piano, my voice, and the landscape I grew up in. That’s how the album got its title, and how I came to be ready finally to release a solo record.”

The eleven tracks that make up Retreat to Bliss were recorded by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, David Byrne, Grace Jones) over the course of just a few days, a process that emphasized spontaneity and the artist’s own commitment to improvisation. 

The opening track, “Descent”, begins with a series of spare notes suspended like icicles, an inhalation of breath audible in the void. The emotional piece builds in intensity until Rogerson’s masterful piano playing has completely taken over, conjuring sonic images of rainfall on glass. The piece blends seamlessly into the utterly gorgeous “Oath”, the first track to feature Rogerson’s earnest and unaffected vocals. The collection draws the listener in further with songs like the contemplative “Toumani”, inspired by the music of the Malian kora player of the same name, and the centrepiece “Chant”, in which Rogerson quietly pleads, “Please don’t leave me / in this perfect place.” The album finishes with the climactic “Retreat To” and the brief outro “Coda”, a revelatory diptych that unfolds like a confession, furious and mournful one moment and in the next, simply questioning.

Secular yet devotional, intensely personal yet profound, the experience of listening to Retreat to Bliss seems to evade characterization. It’s physical and emotional, a glimpse into the mind of an artist who has chosen exposure over withdrawal, who uses his command of the piano to chart an unflinching path forward, never looking back.

Tom Rogerson - "Oath"

I Don't Think I Love You Anymore

You & I

NEW SINGLE 
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Patrick James - Message

"Bombastic" EP available now! Get your copy here: http://smarturl.it/bombasticep 

Bombastic

Sunday's mix, I really like this a lot.  Tracklist c/o Megen Ngo.  Have a great week everybody, love 

Listen to S u n d a y  V i b e s  Pt. 2 --> https://soundcloud.com/brant-brantford-park/s-u-n-d-a-y-v-i-b-e-s-p-t-2

UPDATE (1/28/16): The tracklist you all have been looking for ~ https://soundcloud.com/brant-brantford-park/sets/sunday-vibes-tracklist

- Sunday Vibes -

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HEXA is very happy to share this hot 'No One' remix by Kayge Calypso and DUNN.

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Mothica - No One (Kayge Calypso & DUNN Remix)

Official No Money music video out now: http://smarturl.it/NoMoneyVideo  

Available now via Big Beat Records!

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Lyrics:
Sorry I ain’t got no money I’m not trying to be funny but I left it all at home today
You can call me what you wanna I ain’t giving you a dollar this time I ain’t gonna run away
You might knock me down, you might knock me down, but i will get back up again
You can call it how you wanna I ain’t giving you a dollar this time I ain’t gonna run away

This time 
This time I ain’t gonna run run run run
Not this time

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No Money

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Phoria - Saving Us A Riot

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Blame (Bunker Sessions)

Galantis - Rich Boy(Official Lyric Video)

Rich Boy is (unintentionally) the sister song to No Money. It all started with a piece of vocal from a very talented 8 year old girl. We kept working on this one piece by piece, until it all came together like a jigsaw puzzle... We're proud to present our BRAND NEW SINGLE: RICH BOY!  Grab it while it's hot & play it LOUD #SeafoxNation 

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Lyrics :
I don't need a rich boy
I don't want your money
No, you don't gotta spend nothing on me 
All I want is sweet sweet love, sweet sweet love

I don't need a rich boy
I don't want dollars
No, you don't gotta be a high roller 
All I want is sweet sweet love, sweet sweet love

Sweet sweet love, all I want is sweet sweet love sweet sweet love x2

I don't need a rich boy
I don't want your money
No, you don't gotta spend nothing on me 
All I want is sweet sweet love, HEY

I don't need a rich boy


I don't want dollars, no you don't gotta be a high roller
All I want is sweet sweet love, sweet sweet love

Awwwww....HEY

Sweet sweet love, all I want is sweet sweet love, sweet sweet love x2

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Something New

Ian Janco