~ new monthly playlist!! May 2021 ~

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=ZgP0mR3pTfOA6JCwBxVteg

enjoy

cool music and things: May 2021

Choices Of The Grasshopper May 2021

2021/06 #1 IndieRock DJ Playlist

https://fortherabbits.net/2021/05/28/five-things-we-liked-this-week-27-05-2021/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 28/05/2021

happens to the best of us

May 2021

2021 - part 2

Psychedelic Indie: Haze

Calamities

Windows

Produced by Drauve and Jeremy Rosinger

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy

Rollercoaster

Night Market

This is a song about getting out of a rut

Modern Being

Pearl

Baby Wants Out of the City

Song of the Bell

The People, This Place

The next hot cut from Derry punk trio CHERYM

CHERYM - Listening To My Head

Our new single 'Song About A Car' out now!

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Produced / drums by Oliver Menadue

Lyrics:
The gear stick jumped
Suspension bumped
So pull over
To the hard shoulder
And rest for a while
The country soil 
It smells like engine oil 
So pull over
To the hard shoulder
And take all my time
I don’t wanna go
I don’t wanna know
Who’s waiting for me now 
Give a little sign
Hold me on the line
And take me for a ride 
So pull over
To the hard shoulder
And rest for a while
I don’t wanna go
I don’t wanna know
Who’s waiting for me now 
Give a little sign
Hold me on the line
And take me for a ride 
I don’t wanna go 
Make it last
Take it fast 
Take it slow
It’s been a long time coming
And I have to say I don’t 
Think we’re getting home
It’s been a long time coming

Song About A Car

Cyber Crimes

Lawyer Up

Sports Bar

sunset yesterday

"Distance" , The new Single of Pastel Coast.
Album Release date: 04th of June 2021

Distance

It's Dangerous

'Concorde' by Melby, released May 21st via Rama Lama Records.

Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc.: ffm.to/concorde

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Melby - Concorde

Originally performed by Blumfeld, written by Jochen Distelmeyer

Wellen Der Liebe

Washed Out - New Theory (RAC Mix)

Magic Taxi

Bad Bad Fun

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Gently

Buy/Stream

Gently feat. Paige Bea

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Dirty driving bass, pulsing synths, shimmering and sawing guitars. Topped with twin harmonies crying out for love.

Produced by Gavin Monaghan. Recorded at Magic Garden Studio.

Mastered by Jason Mitchell at LOUD Mastering.

Harder Now (For Love)

Leave A Light On

Written/Produced by: Shane Dinet 

Released: 12/11/2013

Lyrics: 
Abandon summer, abandon spring, see what the autumn has to bring.
Wild- eyed smiles to feel like a child again.
I was your melody, you were my harmony we were washed out beneath the autumn sky.
Stutter thoughts of that autumn to hear the sound, the sound of your laughter in which I drowned. I was your melody you were my lullaby, washed out beneath the autumn sky.
With you I'm ready to......
Going as times are slowly showing, take me to the autumn sky. Fading as our leaves are falling, but with you I'm ready to die. Summer turn me green, winter shed my leaves. How strange just to be anything. Now that I'm the seasons I'm come alive.
How strange just to be anything at all.

Autumn Sky

Pocket Fantasy

Building Castles

Niger EP Vol. 1

Imouhar (Drum Machine Version)

Laminated Denim

The Land Before Timeland

Jaguar Sound

Noble Metals

Ibitilan

released July 1, 2019 
Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
It goes it comes the feeling right now
It goes it comes the feeling right now

The time I wait, the time I waste
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste

Eyes

Laridae

Eyze

Download on Bandcamp

Recorded at The Nave, Leeds
Produced by Alex Greaves
Written & Performed by bdrmm

question mark

Help is on the Way

Holler

Stuck On You

Never Alone Again, released on May 26th 2021

Written and performed by CIEL
Produced by Steven Ansell
Mastered by Robin Schmidt


Lyrics:

Tell me that I will
Never be alone again
Promise me that I will
Never feel so sad again

Baby I know it’s beyond you
These things come and go with time
There may be a darkness growing in me
When sunlight’s running out of time

I don’t know why it’s so hard to be
hard to be, hard to be
I don’t know why it’s so hard to be
hard to be, here

I hope that someday I will
Find stillness within these times
That somehow I could shine a light
When it’s moonless in the dead of night

I’m so crippled by memories
Often stuck in this tendency
trying not to feel much anymore

I don’t know why it’s so hard to be
hard to be, hard to be
I don’t know why it’s so hard to be
hard to be, here

Never Alone Again

© 2021 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records
Produced by William Evans
Artwork by Chyrum Lambert

In between, reaching for something sound
Wanting more before a sign is found 
Thoughts in circles, sewed in
The feedback wearing it thin
Am I someplace I’d rather be
Off in times different than these?

I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth
Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew it

Burn all ties
Foundation lines
For another time
Or a lonely lie
Costing, sinking, all in
Best to flip or to spin
If something real
Isn’t real?

Can’t get out of this myself

Can’t get out of this myself
I wish I knew what it’s worth 

Music by Zachary Blount, Nicholas Evans, William Evans
Lyrics by Zachary Blount
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

With You For Ever

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Something Sound

Miracle

Bad Hair Day

Dazed

Wrong with You

Into the Blue

Into the Blue (Single Edit)

From The Back of a Cab

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Song of the Bell

Lightning Bug