The songs from July 2022 that have grabbed our attention, touched our souls, and challenged our minds.

Songs of July 2022

July 2022

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Five Things We Liked This Week - 15/07/22

'Such As This' - the second EP by Mewn. 

1. Swell
2. Two Days
3.  Carousel
4. There Is No Substitute
5. A Crematorium
6. Thorns

Recorded by David Page at White Bear Studios Manchester. 
Mixed and mastered by Mewn and Simonie Records.
Artwork by Nola James.

Simonie Records 2022

Mewn - Such As This

Ruhig

Robin Kester: vocals, guitar, synths, spinet, wurlitzer, piano, vibraphonette, percussion
Marien Dorleijn: backing vocals, trumpet, synth, percussion
Michiel Stam: guitar
Thijs Visscher: bass guitar
Joep van Osch: drums, percussion, backing vocals
Sussanne Linssen: violin
Timo Jilesen: saxophone

Produced by Robin Kester & Marien Dorleijn
Additional production and mix by Ali Chant
Mastered by Joe Lambert

Cat 13

Robin Kester – Cat 13

The Jacket

Salt

Motorbike

Mewn - Two Days

First single from upcoming EP2. Released 28/04/2022.

Mewn - Two Days

Call It What It Is - Written by Tanya Batt 
Pre-order 'The Nightline' out Oct 14th here - https://bit.ly/TheNightlinePO
Produced by Tanya Batt 
Engineered & Mixed by Alex O'Gorman
Mastered by Isaac Barter

Tanya Batt - Vocals, Piano, Rhodes, Digital Synth
Lachlan O'Kane - Drums, Percussion
Brendan Tsui - Bass
Ross Beaton - Modular/Analog Synth 
Adam Dean - Lead Guitar

Lyrics
Everything hurts on the inside 
But there’s no point talking about it
There’s no point talking at all
Cause’ everytime I try to phone you
Nobody answers my call

Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 

Everything hurts on the outside 
But there’s no point talking about it
There’s no point talking at all
Cause’ everyone’s breathing different air to what I breathe
I feel like I’m not breathing at all 

Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 

I write down my feelings and I burn them
I wish I could show you how I feel
Seems I’m incapable in relaying what is real
Why can’t I talk about it 
Why can’t you talk about it
Why can’t we talk about it
Why can’t I talk about it
Why can’t you talk about it
Why can’t we talk about it  

Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is 
Just call it what it is

Call It What It Is

Loose Future

Lookout

(VERSE 1)

When you can’t quite find the words to say
You try to write it down and out anyway
That you can find out on the day
When we find a little space
Its gonna take some time to heal
The drawn out dread that you now feel
But its a part out of the deal
That we’ve been blessed enough to feel

(CHORUS)

I’m on the lookout,
For someone older,
To point me in the right direction,
To keep my right.

I’m on the lookout,
For someone wiser,
To keep me on my feet,
And treat me right.

(VERSE 2)

I know how you feel now,
Cut up in the world
Your heads a mess, you feel its up in a swirl
But the days will get brighter,
No time in the dark
And now you feel that we’ve been all torn apart

But I’ve been dealing with the same old places
Staring at these walls for ages and ages
Practice on my life has been far from gracious
Building up the walls like a pariah nation
Imagination? Now come pick a destination
Greatest show on earth that we’re about to stage in
Welcome to my paradise, my little oasis
Sorry for my dreams there a little abrasive

(CHORUS 2)

I’m on the lookout,
For someone older,
To point me in the right direction,
To keep my right.

I’m on the lookout,
For someone wiser,
To keep me on my feet,
And treat me right.

Ain’t easy to move on,
But it gets better,
It makes me feel so happy,
That look in your eyes...

Cos times are changing,
And I can do much better,
It makes me feel so happy,
She treats me right.

Lookout

Drift

Skiv

Mewn - There Is No Substitute

2p Machine

Fourth of July

Fourth of July (April Base Version)

Seasick

Paper Moth Flame

Cherry Cola. 6-29-22. An ode to: Bonnie and Clyde.  Impulsiveness. Mojave. Ebb And Flow Of Fortune. A Tarantula Crawling Across The Highway. Immersion. Stuck On An Outside Timeline. Release.

Cherry Cola

MOSS

Thérèse

English Weather

We Are All

On a Corner

Animals

The name “Let’s Whisper” implies secrets—the sorts of things you’d tell friends in a night’s waning hours, as the sun is about to peek over the horizon. Colin Clary and Dana Kaplan have been friends and musical collaborators for years, and the openhearted, detail-rich indiepop they craft together reflects their rich creative relationship and trust in each other. On The In-Between Times, the second Let’s Whisper full-length—the band’s first release in eight years, and first as a five-piece—the Burlington-based band digs deeper into their day-to-day worlds while confronting their individual and collective futures.    
“This is a record about love and loss and change and possibilities,” Colin and Dana say about The In-Between Times, which comes out on Fika Recordings in August 2022. Indeed, the prevailing mood of this album is a sense of grounding, of not letting the big questions of life—“what gets you through the night?”, “will I see you around the town?”, “have you done the thing that defines you yet?”—completely obfuscate the minutiae that makes it beautiful.  
Musically and lyrically detailed, The In-Between Times is the work of a band that uses the catchy melodies and jangling guitars of indiepop to peel off into exciting, and at times unexpected, musical and lyrical directions. “The Thing That Defines You” is crisp and questioning, with squiggles of guitar at its melody’s fringes implying the strands of identity that a friend is trying to see in order to get a full, unencumbered-by-narrative picture of someone they love. “Sing!” swells from a gentle jangle into a triumphant trans anthem that charmingly flips the bird to societal norms. “40 Ways To Love You” pairs its pointillistic detailing of a loved one’s best qualities with a weepy guitar countermelody that makes the romance all the more poignant.        
Let’s Whisper started as a home-recording project between Colin and Dana, also in the beloved “open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries” The Smittens, in the mid-2000s. Writing and recording music at home resulted in more tightly knit songwriting process, which the pair referred to as “Whispering.” After releasing a pair of EPs, 2008’s Make Me Smile and 2010’s Keep a Secret, Let’s Whisper brought on drummer Brad Searles (Eef, The Also-Rans), expanding and adding a fulcrum to their sound. Since Brad joined, Let’s Whisper has released one album, 2011’s The Shortest Days, and a 10-inch, 2014’s As Close As We Are. The latter was called “short and sweet, by turns deadpan in its delivery and sentimental in its subject matter” by the Vermont weekly Seven Days, and it was Let’s Whisper’s last release until now.
But Let’s Whisper has kept creatively busy in those ensuing years. In addition to the three members pursuing their own projects individually and together, Let’s Whisper toured the US and the UK, rounding out its lineup with bassist-guitarist Jeff Baron (Essex Green, Ladybug Transistor) in the States and bassist-vocalist Emma Kupa (Standard Fare, Mammoth Penguins) in Great Britain. For the recording of The In-Between Times, both Jeff and Emma joined Colin, Dana, and Brad during sessions at Marlborough Farms in Brooklyn—although they did so a year apart, with Emma recording her parts (including banjo on the chiming “Simple Times” and vocals and banjo on the plainspoken “Long Run”) with the core three in 2017 and Jeff adding guitar and keyboards in 2018, when the finishing touches were put on the album by studio owner and engineer Gary Olson.  
With The In-Between Times, Let’s Whisper have created an album that, even in its more pensive and mournful moments, celebrates the array of what life has to offer—the elation of watching hot-air balloons lift off at sunset, the triumph that comes with living honestly, the joy that comes when an open heart is mirrored by a friend, or a fan, or a loved one. Lean in and listen closely.

The Year Of Getting High

Let's Whisper - The Year Of Getting High

Fallen

Summer vibes, funky dance with Latin overtones. Make hay while the sun shines.

Mingo Trumpet

Concept Of Life

Mewn - Carousel

Mewn - A Crematorium

3rd track ahead of Mewn's 2nd EP 'Such As This' releasing 7 October.

Mewn - Swell

From "Days of Abandon" Deluxe.
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Summer Of Dreams

Here We Go Magic - “Ordinary Feeling” from the album ‘Be Small’ out October 16, 2015 on Secretly Canadian

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Here We Go Magic - “Ordinary Feeling” from the album ‘Be Small’ out October 16, 2015 on Secretly Canadian

Be Small

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Here We Go Magic - "Ordinary Feeling"

Our cover of James' classic "Laid" featuring vocals from Jen Goma. 

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Laid

Colored the altar to shine
We were still as the moon lit the night up
Over days that we count over time
Does it all turn around in our lives,
does it all?

Tunnels

Over the course of our days
We will live, we will grow
We will stray away
Over the time of our lives
We will live, we will love
We will try to find

I know the way home
You're waiting to get out
I know the way home
You've filled your mind with doubt

Over the course of our days
We will live, we will grow
We will stray away
Over the time of our lives
We will live, we will love
We will try

I know the way home
You're waiting to get out
I know the way home
You've filled your mind with doubt

I know the way home
You're waiting to get out
I know the way home
You've filled your mind with doubt



