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Playlist: Today's Go-To Songs

New, recent and wondrous finds from Picking Up Rocks blog, where we are obsessively devoted to excavating the unjustifiably overlooked, hidden in plain sight & truly underappreciated in the musical universe, old and new !!!

Weekly New Wonders Playlist #40 of 2021

Soul Flame 54>>>

These heart-squeezingly, dirty wonderful songs and people collectively represent the only reason I remain on speaking terms with 2021. I genuinely, honestly, and sincerely hope you find something or someone you love amongst these 50 fine, foxy and fabulous things. Rock on and keep breathing...

PuR's Top 50 Songs of 2021 !

Vocal Ambient

add on to my spotify playlist bc these songs arent all on spotify

best songs of 2021 archive

Stream "Wallow" here: www.smarturl.com/BT_Wallow

Recorded and mixed by Jon Markson
Mastered by Jason Livermore

www.brothertiger.net

Wallow

INSIDE MY MIND LYRICS 

Pour another glass, maybe I could make it last
So I don’t repeat, the same things as last week

I’m overwhelmed by all the things that I could do, I’m not going to
Well you can’t keep dancing with the devil, and then asking why you’re in hell
Why you’re in hell, why you’re in hell

You know that I’ll try 
But I probably won’t get it right, on the first time
How do you think I feel, when I don’t even feel real
It’s like I’m standing on the other side

I had this dream, that I was walking in the dark
And as I took another step the earth it opened at my feet
I went falling down into the deep

And it’s every night, I haven’t found a way to shut it out
Could you help me out
Don’t think you understand 
I know you try to help its kind
Even I don’t understand my mind

You know that I’ll try 
But I probably won’t get it right, on the first time
How do you think I feel, when I don’t even feel real
It’s like I’m standing on the other side

Standing on the other side
Standing on the other side 
Try to understand my mind
Try to understand my mind

Inside My Mind

And everything was disappearing into the snowy murk...

Winter Chronicle

Breathe Of Winter

Going Out

Pour Toi

Talk Tough

Primordial Waters

Ifá

Clementine

Walking With Trees

Raise Your Words

Juniper

Transit in the Softest Forest, Walking, Sad, No More Sad, Leaving

American Spirits

Stream 'Equal Trouble' : https://bluematerial.fanlink.to/equaltrouble

Thomas Gillies, aka Blue Material (former member of TOPS and founder of Vesuvio Solo), returns with a brand new single 'Equal Trouble' from his upcoming EP You’re Doing All The Talking. True to its influences and style he delivers yet another electronic and groovy song that sounds like an improbable encounter between the funk of Prince, the disco edge of Chic, the elegant indie-pop of Men I Trust, and the psychedelic touch of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Soft funky surges and disco whispers, Blue Material distils a swing that subtly electrifies the body.

You're Doing All the Talking

Stream

Blue Material - Equal Trouble

Untethering

The Lost Tapes

Owiny Space

Rembihnútur (Liminal re-work by Paul Corley)

Change

Pain Without a Touch

Drift Below

Nepenthe

Labyrinthine

Sea Oleena - Untitled

i cant play guitar well im sorry

I know its hard to, but i love you
I know its not late, but i gotta go, im going home...

im coming home

a lil song 2 make u feel better.
2 my bestfriend

alice

i wish i could make you feel like you belong
i know you hate the world and sadly youre not wrong
havent felt happy in so long
i wonder who i can rely on...

cant sleep these days
always lying by myself, thinking of you
cant wait to get out this place
but then again what good will it all do? 

when the rain hits me i dont feel the cold
life is too boring to do what im told
after everything, all thats left is pain
why do i feel so drained
got nothing to gain

drained

broke every mirror

All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mike Schmidt. Not like anyone would try to take credit for this anyway.

Blue Dome Glowing

The Gullivers suite. A collection of 6 tracks written for the upcoming Minecraft release Gullivers Travels by the fantastic https://www.wandering-wizards.com !!

Gullivers Suite: Scene five - Ballroom dance

Dreamcycles - Future Lights and Archetypes

sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/future…d-archetypes
Available 1 May 2020 exclusively on Bandcamp. Available 29 May 2020 on all digital platforms.

Dreamcycles, the moniker of Irish-Canadian artist Jennifer Moore, emerges from the ashen present to deliver her conceptual debut mini-album Future Lights and Archetypes. Operating at the node between technological reality and speculative fiction, Moore transforms ethereal bedroom pop and monolithic electronics into uncanny soundscapes to explore what she describes as the “landscape of a future global economy.”

Moore’s imagination conjures a new order of global governance which uses data to assess the competencies, characteristics, and productivity capacity of its citizens. Predictive analytics are used to shuttle humans around the globe in a tightly choreographed dance of space, labour and capital. Spanning a perspective both personal and systemic, the Dublin-based producer guides the listener through her sober invention, anchoring its alienating events around simple longings for home.

Across six tracks, present-day sonics are repurposed to create warped atmospherics. “If I wanted to see the world, I’d have to imagine it,” says a disembodied voice on opening track ‘Memory (Temporary Access)’. Pitter-patter footsteps, playing children, and whirring device noises swirl around the words: harsh, familiar, and ultimately unsettling. ‘Fonn Abhaile’ follows—its vaporous synths matched by breathy vocals—but ‘Abrasive Routes’ reveals the haunting potential of Moore’s psychoacoustic constructions. News report snippets detailing the Dublin financial district jostle with screeching high-definition cars. “It’s become the most extraordinary contrast to everything else here,” recites a roving correspondent, cataloguing inequalities suffused into the electronic artist’s home.

As the mini-album progresses, the emotional intensity rises. ‘Memory Laneways’ pairs an elegiac refrain with industrial kicks before ‘Playing with the Concrete’ offers a moment of brightness. “You look good when you’re smiling,” sings Moore over a distant sinogrime melody, followed by her closing, and most affecting track, ‘Final Goodbye.’ Meditations on belonging are swept along by circular, trance-like synths whose closing destination is bittersweet: euphoria tempered by the artist’s sombre backdrop.

Moore describes Future Lights and Archetypes as a “post-extraction artefact.” Through its diary entries, radio clippings, and fragmented songs, the mini-album resembles an object hewn from a fully-realised world, like an Ursula K. Le Guin novel refracted through machine learning. Keen listeners might also detect a flicker of Grouper’s place-based musings or even the crumbling electronics of Actress. But this release melds intimacy with pulsating stimuli, Moore’s gaze oriented firmly towards the human cost of an omniscient technological future.

Future Lights & Archetypes

Dreamcycles - Final Goodbye

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