2023

Choices of the Grasshopper January 2023

Best of January 2023

+ JANUARY 2023 PART I

Indie Playlist • BIRP! January 2023

New Music Friday

Going Home To A Party

Shoulders

Harmonise

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.

Love As Projection

Pre-order

Frankie Rose - Anything

Oxygen

Blameless

Modernise

Shannon Fields: synths, banjo
Nico Hedley: bass, electric guitar, drum machine
Nic Jenkins: percussion
Benedict Kupstas: voice, 12-string guitar, synths

Field Guides - "Esopus"

ep 1

i love you

Sunlight

'Ignorance' is raw, gives friction and describes a view on our siciety. People sometimes say 'ignorance is bliss', but is that really so? Individualism has never been more prominent than it is now. Deep down we yearn for connection, but do we remember how?

Lyrics: 

I was a wild man
I was astray
You took a wrong turn
You went away

I was a wild cat
Never afraid
You took me downtown
You went away

Thoughts going nowhere
Let’s just hang about
I’m sitting here waiting
‘till you come around

Spread your arms, open wide
Face the world while it’s burning
Your face will tell another lie
That’s the way your world is turning

Nothing going on here
Just waiting on your door
Like a hound on hunger
I want you even more

Spread your arms, open wide
Face the world while it’s burning
Your face will tell another lie
That’s the way your world is turning

Guess that’s the way the world is turning
Guess that’s the way our world is turning, people

Ignorance

Corner Of My Eye

Higher Lonely Power

Goodnight Tomb

Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth - Oscar Wilde

Devil and the Deep Blue

So excited to release the 2nd single from my upcoming EP titled Back to Earth coming out on January 13th, 2023.

You can pre-save the EP & stream "21st Century" here: https://linktr.ee/mildmonkmusic

Welcome to the 21st Century
Is it what you dreamed to be?
Or not perhaps

Trapped within a simulated ecstasy
Nothing feels as real to me
Should I throw it away or
Toss another coin into the slot machine
Gamble with my sanity?

Yeah maybe tonight
I'm feeling like I'm gonna be the lucky one

Credits
Released December 22, 2022

Written & Produced by Mild Monk
Mastered by Clay Bundon at Mush Man Music
Portrait by Carly Montan

21st Century

In Ha Mood

Waxing

SKRILLEX - RUMBLE (FEAT ISOXO AND EXCISION)

NewJeans 'OMG'

"Rita" is a tale of parental death, deceased estates and a vanishing photograph. Jolly themes. We make no excuses for the Matthew Sweet/Bangles influenced harmonies.

Imagine I Was This Tall

Rita

Buddy Holly

Wind Yer Neck In

We Caa Done (feat. Drake)

Black

Halloween is here again 
So kiss me on your final breath 
Wanna go out but I don’t know what to wear 
Halloween all day and night 
If the breeze cuts through the trees just right 
I’ll find myself up in your arms sweet death 

Cuz I want to love you 
But it’s been so long 
Been so long 
I want to love you 
But it’s been so long 
Been so long 

So death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 

Hunt me down and paint me red 
A pentagram on my forehead  
Make out to Sonic Youth  
This dream is over 
Hell is where I’ll finally be 
My destiny’s 666 feet deep 
No hope to follow you on Halloween 

Cuz I want to love you 
But it’s been so long 
Been so long 
I want to love you 
But it’s been so long 
Been so long 

So death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 

Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
So death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now 
Death come take me now

Spotify

Backseat Vinyl - Death (Come Take Me Now)

Nick Beans new single Bubble Gum Girl share and like.

Bubble Gum Girl

Have A Heart

'SUNSHINE' out now :) 
sincere lofi slacker bedroom jangle pop- email me : jwfrancislovesyou@gmail.com

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JW Francis