Choices of the Grasshopper June

2021/07 #1 IndieRock DJ Playlist

Songs of June 2021

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Eat This Music (17 June 2021)

Milky Chance - Colorado

Tate McRae - Tate McRae x Khalid - working

Once More For The Ocean

www.mintsimon.com
@mintsimonsays

Written by Mint Simon
Co-written with Breagh Isabel
Written, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Isabelle Banos

SOME OF EVERYTHING - LYRICS

Half in is never enough
I’m tired of feeling too much, lately
Got used to shying away
But I’m done playing it safe, baby

Let’s start a new religion
We can work with what we’re given
We can praise our own escape
There’s no more second guessing
Now I’m giving us my blessing
We create our own parade

I just OH, celebrate
liking some of everything
I just OH, celebrate
being some of everything

It’s hard to know who to trust
Forced into being your crush, don’t even know my name
It’s like I’m up on display
But I’m done letting you claim me, baby

Let’s start a new religion
We can work with what we’re given
We create our own parade

I just OH, celebrate
liking some of everything
I just OH, celebrate
being some of everything

Got the keys we got the crown
You can’t take it back now

Some of Everything

Thirstier

Hug From a Dinosaur

I wrote and recorded each song from this EP and my last album in isolation at my home studio in real time, and as each song kinda follows the trajectory of everything that's happened in the past year. For Safety started a chapter that gave a glimpse of a hopeful, yet ironic and strange future where things are starting to wake up, but have morphed into all these odd new normals. In a way it's been nice to have all this time to reflect or cocoon in creatively, and part of me feels strange about waking up from that slumber. But as many silver linings as I slap on it, you'd have to be a world champion optimist to ignore that it's been a pretty dark world out there. A lifetime's worth of issues slingshot to earth in a single year. Pandemics, insurrection, the reality of social injustice, and on and on. Tons of alarms ringing nonstop and really loud.
Also as things start to feel a bit brighter around the corner, as things open back up and tensions have settled a bit, I can't help but notice that the world (or at least my world) feels pretty damn different than the last time I inhabited it. A lot has changed for me, much like everyone else probably. Things won't be that same, the once distant future is still pretty fuzzy and out of focus... but comparatively, I'm ok with this bottled optimism for now.

Monograms - For Safety

"Sex & Candy" by Marcy Playground is a tune I heard played relentlessly on 107.7 The End, the alternative station in Seattle, when I was young. I was obsessed with this song, and actually re-wrote it featuring a lyrical parody of the television show "Touched by an Angel" for a 5th grade talent show at my Christian elementary school - fortunately the staff was unaware of the source-material. Here's my reharmonized and grooving take on this classic radio smash...

Sex & Candy (Cover)

First single of my upcoming debut album<3

Everything w/FENGSEL

Feel (Original Mix)

Black Caviar & Yash - Bohemian Like You (feat. Alle The Dreamer) is out now!

Get it here: https://spinninrecords.release.link/bohemian-like-you-feat-alle-the-dreamer!SC

Bohemian Like You (feat. Alle The Dreamer)

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Black Caviar & Yash - Bohemian Like You (feat. Alle The Dreamer) [OUT NOW]

British Asian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dewan-Dean Soomary returns with a new project that blends the snappy pop sensibility of indie disco with the bleak humour and biting social commentary of post-punk.

Teenage Sequence tells acid-tongued and relatable stories about the humiliations and alienations of modern life: the casual racism of the music industry or your crush, the endless series of hangovers that keep you stuck as an eternal kid, the despair of living in a world on the verge of destruction, the yearning when you fall in love despite all of this. Lush synthesisers, fuzzy guitars, and relentless 909 beats build a soundscape that is as sleek, pulsing, merciless, and ultimately as irresistible as London itself— demanding that the listener dance, even as it reminds them that the dance-floor is burning. 

Teenage Sequence’s debut single “All This Art” turns a scathing eye on the small indignities and hypocrisies of a music industry that doesn’t want face its own racial shortcomings— all the while poking fun at its self and sarcastically  sending up the warped relationship we all have to ourselves and our art. 
Clocking in at 6.29 of spoken word over a dance beat as bright, tart, and cutting as the song’s lyrics, “All This Art” disregards the rules of modern pop and alternative songwriting in favour of brutal honesty and bittersweet fun.
	- K.M Ferebee

All This Art

Scout

Show Up

Waiting Around for a New Me

Let Me Do One More

Pool Hopping

Colorado

Shade of Yellow

Chemicals

the angel of 8th ave.

“‘This Is All I Need’ is about the positives of nurturing an adaptable persona”, explains band leader Padley. “Here our protagonist recognises that others will only open up to new ideas if initially they are rewarded sympathy for their current standpoint.

#altrock #indie

Social Haul - This Is All I Need

Loved By

Secret Plan

The Devil

Therapy

Windflowers

Living Other Lives

Feet Don't Fail Me Now

Morning

Morning (Billen Ted Remix)

Be My Luv

Westside

Like the sun carries the moon
When the wind blows I shelter you
Like two rivers running in a line
Like I told you I’m on your side
So hot and cold
Too fast too slow
It’s all for show 
Baby trust me 
I’m not your enemy
I’m on your side Baby believe me
I’m on your side No ones leaving
I’m on your side Baby believe me
I’m on your side 
Like the loon resting in the palms
With my arm in your arm 
Looking straight ahead 
And in stride 
Like I told you I’m on your side
So hot and cold
Too fast too slow
It’s all for show
Baby trust me I’m not your enemy 
I’m on your side Baby believe me
I’m on your side No ones leaving
I’m on your side baby believe me
I’m on your side 
Day by day by day 
Watch you take your love away
Day by day by day 
watch you move further away 
So hot and cold too fast too slow
It’s all for show baby trust me 
I’m not your enemy 
I’m not your enemy

On Your Side

Watch

Tate McRae x Khalid - working

'That's My Idea' (Release date: July 30, 2021)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/3qnnj8P
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/3d8zuRw
Order Now - Hardly Art Mini Mart: https://www.hardlyart.com/releases/my_idea_thats_my_idea

My Idea: 
Bandcamp: https://myidea.bandcamp.com
Instagram: instagram.com/my_idea_the_band
Twitter: https://twitter.com/myideatheband
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myideatheband
On Tour: http://www.hardlyart.com/tours/my_idea

Hardly Art: https://www.hardlyart.com
MiniMart: https://www.hardlyart.com/shop
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hardlyart
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardlyart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardlyart
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hardlyartrecords
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords

My Idea - Stay Away Still

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

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"Gleaming Spires" is taken from Ducks Ltd.'s EP "Get Bleak", an expanded re-issue out now on Carpark Records.

p + c 2021 Carpark Records

Ducks Ltd. - Gleaming Spires

‘I Might Have’ is the second single from A Place to Bury Strangers forthcoming EP, Hologram which will be released on their newly formed label, Dedstrange on July 16.  “I Might Have” is a fuzz-soaked sonic disaster in the best possible way. Past reflections collide with the brutality of a disintegrating world, stories of personal trauma, acceptance, and human failings emerge from the rubble of noise and destitute motorik rhythms. This is A Place To Bury Strangers at its most honest and unfiltered.   Hologram serves as an abstract mirror to the moment we live in and “I Might Have” smashes that mirror into a thousand pieces.

Hologram

I Might Have

A Place To Bury Strangers - I Might Have

New EP from Ipswich trio Coalfalls.

More info - https://www.4000records.com/artists/coalfalls

Once More For The Ocean

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