Choices of the Grasshopper September 2023

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Daily Drops

New, recent, and wondrous finds from the 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 #14 of 2023

Cure For Me

Cure For Me (Live) [feat. Silvana Estrada]

Sorry I Haven't Called

Anti-Fuck

SUCKER

Emergency Contact

Suburban Solutions

Surrenderland

Apple Core

Afterlife

RUSHES

Lightweight

Back To The Water Below

There Goes My Cool

Love Song

Saytr play are an indie-pop outfit known for their electric live shows, in iconic venues (gorilla, broadcast, ebgbs...) And the festival circuit (great escape, ynot, neighbourhood, 110above...) alike. 

Sharing influence with Circa Waves, the strokes, sundara karma and cage the elephant, and recieving playlisting from radio x, Spotify (New Music Friday, Hot New Bands, Indie List) Amazing Radio and bbc introducing, the band have racked up over a million streams on Spotify & a dedicated fanbase. 

Following their hiatus, Saytr Play came back this year with 'The Butterfly Stitches EP', amassing over 150,000 streams, Editorial support on Spotify's Fresh finds and New Music Friday, playlisting on XS Manchester and national radio coverage on Radio X. Off the back of this success, Saytr Play sold out their headline show at Manchester's Deaf Institute a month in advance. 

Saytr play release 'Brother' on 1st September and headline Manchester's Canvas on the 8th September.

Brother (YKTDY)
Is a very nostalgic song for me. Most songs touch on the subject of love, the only difference here is that I wanted to write a song about how much I love my mates. I wanted to share some of the story’s and memories we lived through in our younger years. Growing up in Moston (Manchester). The good times. The bad times. It’s celebrating he family we choose, in our case our brothers. Life is never plain sailing but I like to think that is about who you are with not where you are. In this industry iv met a lot of privileged people but I honestly wouldn’t change our upbringing for the world. I’m proud of where I’m from & I love my mates so I wrote a song about it. Enjoy.

Brother (YKTDY)

Pony

Stream 'Just a little (closer to me) now: https://listen.niceguysrecords.com/just-a-little

Discover 'Just a Little (Close to Me),' the new single from Dan Elliott, the upcoming London-based singer. With his poetic tone alongside his gentle indie pop melody, Dan Elliott delivers a sensitive track, showcasing his vulnerability and emotions as he talks to his loved one. The English singer reveals a song that echoes the British pop of Two Door Cinema Club and the soothing tone of some tracks by The Kooks. 'Just a Little (Close to Me)' will undoubtedly seduce all indie British pop lovers.

Dan Elliott - Just a little (Closer to me)

Calm Down

VERSE I
West End 
I’m on the ceilin’
I’m medicated with the finest buzz a kid could afford
Wide eyes
In walks a heathen
Is it just me, or did the room heat up a hundred degrees?

PRECHORUS I
Cause there you stood with a mind full of felonies  
Oh and now I’m burnin’
baby but I love all the heat 
West End
My fears are peakin’
And you could save me, but you’d rather have me down on the floor

CHORUS
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
I need ya like a fever
Fever won’t you be good to me? 
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
You’re sayin’ that you’re super 
But you’re no superhero to me

VERSE II
I’m sideways
It’s complicated
I wasn’t lookin’, but the girl is kinda hard to ignore 
Soft eyes (soft eyes)
Cuts like a demon (like a demon)
She’d try to break me, but I’m already as broke as could be

PRECHORUS II
Cause there I stood in your room, feelin’ chemistry 
Oh and now I’m beggin’
Baby you’re so good at deceit 
West End (West End)
She says I’m tweakin’ (I think I’m tweakin’)
And you could save me, but you’d rather make me feel like a whore

CHORUS II
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
I need ya like a fever
Fever won’t you be good to me? 
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
You’re sayin’ that you’re super 
But you’re no superhero to me

Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
I need ya like a fever
Fever won’t you be good to me? 
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
You’re sayin’ that you’re super 
But you’re no superhero to me

BRIDGE
Ooh-ooh-eee-ooh
Well I know, you know, that no one can resist ya
Ooh-ooh-eee-ooh
Well I know you know, that no one can can’t resist her
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
And I’m burnin’ slowly, baby’s gotten under the skin
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
If it’s a game we’re playing, baby how come I never win?

CHORUS 3
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
I need ya like a fever
Fever won’t you be good to me? 
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
You’re sayin’ that you’re super 
But you’re no superhero to me

Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
I need ya like a fever
Fever won’t you be good to me? 
Woah-ooh-wuh-uh-oh-oh-ohh
You’re sayin’ that you’re super 
But you’re no superhero to me

You Ain't No Superhero

Soft Power

Bigger

World of Hassle

Trouble In Mind

Louder Now

MakeDamnSure

Saosin

You're Not Alone

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LYRICS:


I flew through
Blue to you—
You plucked my back
Sang ‘til you
Came too soon
Get off my back—my back

Wanted to
Sound like you
(Don’t tell them that)
Passed through your
Ash t(w)o more
Grew from my back—my back

Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—your tracks on my—

Doped up faces crowding around your bed
Dumbed down chases taking me to my head
Well I’m taking my back

Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone, yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with your tracks on—
Fuck that, daddy, I’m gone yeah you know I’m gone
Leaving with my tracks on—my tracks on my back


Plucky

High Skool Rocks

Kiss Me

Pony

Slothrust