Our monthly playlist of the songs we've been digging.

Songs of May 2021

May 2021

Dreampop - Shoegaze May 2021

The best Indie pop / rock tracks from June 2021. Full playlist at www.birp.fm // Updated monthly, so save your favorites!  Indie, Bedroom Pop, Lofi, Surf Rock, etc.

Indie Playlist • BIRP! June 2021

Fatidic Fulgor

Top2021

Blunder

Ice Melt

L.A.

Babe
Everybody talks so loud
Fighting over time
drowning each other out
Bombs like tears are falling now
I guess we’re not so far from where we started
How I wonder
Is it me or is it you?
Who needs this more
Who’s making do
Babe
Babe
Things keep falling right outside
And the fear it grips and chokes me from inside
Pull on your arms like a frightened child
Though I know you’re just as terrified
Babe
Are we in love?
Or is it the drugs, babe?
Still never feels quite enough
Babe
Can hardly sleep when you lie with me
Stay up all night so I can hear you leave
‘Cause I am many things
But I’m not naive
Babe
No I won’t be the fool waking up to haunted sheets
Babe
And it’s all piling up at our feet
Dust and rubble gathering in heaps
I’ll get lost in you
You can get lost in me
Being lost is a bit like being free isn’t it?
Babe
It’s not you it’s me isn’t it ?
Babe
It feels like we’re getting older doesn’t it?
Babe

Written and Performed by feeo
Coproduced by feeo and Upcycled Sounds

feels like we're getting older doesn't it

Imaginary People

Swirl

Sand Fight

All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by Johannes Göthager.
Mastered by Justus Björk.
Album cover collage by Johannes Göthager.
© / ℗ Darkly 2021

Radiolaria

Aurora

Nostalgia

Metronomy remix of "Living Beings Pt.2" by Lean Logic.
Written by Lean Logic.
Remixed by Joe Mount (Metronomy).
Mastered by Nick Carlisle.

The original version of "Living Beings Pt.2" is taken from the forthcoming Lean Logic album "The Last Mirage", released 28th May 2021 on O Genesis Records.
Pre-save "The Last Mirage" on Spotify:
smarturl.it/thelastmirage-ps

Living Beings Pt 2 (Metronomy Remix)

Living Beings Pt.2 (Metronomy Remix)

terminal paradise - adrienne lenker

Your Mind

New single from Corduroy, released May 21. 
S/T debut album out 4th of June.

Corduroy is a four-piece band from Norrköping, Sweden. They play dreamy indie pop with a big dose of reverb and hovering guitars. Corduroy is Amanda Wallin, Olle Rosén, Martin Boström and Serafim Kristjansson.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Corduroyinspace
Instagram: www.instagram.com/corduroyinspace/
Contact: hello@varorecords.com

Corduroy - NLMN

Clay Pigeon

Pre-order 'Bloom Off The Rose' LP digital/vinyl: https://alwaysyou.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-off-the-rose

Lyrics:
White sheets in the back of your car
A Mississippi baby with a head like a hole in the wall
Lost sleep didn't get you too far
You’re falling off the wagon with a suit and cigar

5 weeks with that twitch in your eye
You're staring at the mirror but you're still just an ordinary guy
Slim chance but you’ll give it a try
Your jealous little lady does your head in every time

Black city nights
You're lost in black city nights
You long for black city nights
You love those black city nights

Hot streaks they can turn on a dime
You’re laying out the carpet but there's red velour in your eyes
Lost steam chasing ghosts in the night
Seven lonely evenings since she left you behind

Hushed days but the nights are loud
You try to keep it grounded but your head hangs over the clouds
Wrapped up in a funeral shroud
My precious little baby’s just another face in the crowd

Your eyes can tell no lies
about it
I can’t tell you anything about it

But your eyes can terrify
without it
I can’t tell you anything about it

Oh let me ask you something…you think you’re the one?

Black city nights
You're lost in black city nights
You long for black city nights
You love those black city nights

Bloom Off The Rose

Black City Nights

Kiss Me In Heaven

Karaoke

Really Really Do is about the ups and downs of coming out of a relationship. It's learning to embrace your independence while trying to live up to what a "bad ass woman" should be. The reality is, we all are a little scared and constantly question ourselves. The last line of the chorus, "really, really do I?" gives you a sense of that doubt and insecurity but still, we push through.

Really, Really Do

THE REAPER

Lust Field

The first single off of Petal.  Free Download

Spotify: spoti.fi/31s3SNS
Instagram: bit.ly/2EnWxq1
Youtube: https://bit.ly/2EfLE9N
Website: brokeforfree.com



Mark Edwards on guitar

Broke For Free - Juparo

My favorite Prince song, from Purple Rain. I love electronic music but almost never work in that medium.  This is one of those time I did. 

Take Me With You

Under

Old Sea Brigade - "Day By Day" https://oldseabrigade.ffm.to/daybyday

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Lyrics:
Time and time again I think I’m falling through space and I wakeup in my bed just sweating in sheets
Remembering my name but it don’t sound the same 
Daylight come and save me from the 2am creeps

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart

Hold me up again or I can count on the wall
Just a temporary panic that I can’t seem to beat
Stranger in the mirror his smile makes me shiver
He wears my features and grinds my teeth

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old

Darkness it comes and puts me in place
I’m a prisoner babe you know I can’t escape
Take all you want take all you can take
But the shadow of age is every step of the way
And it’s day by day it’s all I can take of it
And it’s day by day its all I can chase

Time and time again I think I’ve pulled it together but something’s so familiar that’s unraveling me
I’ll forget my name every evenings the same
Frozen on my back just praying for sleep

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you as the night grows cold and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old

Day By Day

Streets

Lizzy

Dim Your Light - Sam Plecker

Andrew

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

You’ve seen a face 
Falling out of the dark
To mother a whisper
So half of your mind 
Can dare to drift off
As the other stays 
Always wondering,
Watching through the thunder 
For a sign of all the 
Monsters in the rain

"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"Say no to drugs"
"And stay like it was the plan all along" 
"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"I wish I could stay
Like it was the plan all along"

You said goodbyes 
Never meant a thing
But I started guessing  
Though we’d gathered our best
It was known for a while
That all through the night 
You’d stayed wondering,
Haunted by old dreams 
You could not share
In fear you’d throw them all away

"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"Say no to drugs"
"And stay like it was the plan all along" 
"Hey, hey, are you in good hands?"
"I wish I could stay
Like it was the plan all along"

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

With You For Ever

Buy vinyl on Bandcamp

Wish I Could Stay

Having personally witnessed firsthand a tragic incident on the London Underground, this song acted as a kind of catharsis. The song expands the occurrence into a fictional narrative around the central protagonist. An ode to the fragility of human life and the importance of leading our best lives despite the cards we're often dealt.

Reset

Sirens

Brightside is the second single taken from the EP "Unemployment, Broken Bones, Death, Baby", out May 14 on VÅRØ Records. Damen is Danial Bin Ismail Ärlig (vocals/guitar), David Nordell (bass), Adrian Gejrot (drums) and Gustav Bondesson (guitar). 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/damenmusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/damenmusic/
Contact: hello@varorecords.com

Brightside

Damen - Brightside

our new album 'BLOSSOMER' is out ❀ vinyl on https://strayfossa.com/