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this home is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
Connor Weir
July 09, 2024
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okay buckle up everyone, because this is going to be a busyyyyyy week. especially for those of you who like playlists because we don’t have one this week. we have two dropping in your inbox on wednesday and thursday so, enjoy! but not just yet, we’ve got a standard edition here for you, and a strangely topical one at that! you see, there’s just been an election here, the second one since this newsletters inception, and to honour that election energy, here is a protest song aimed specifically at people who buy second homes and how much we don’t like them for displacing people from their communities and driving up the cost of living by making access to a basic human right inaccessible to those who need it. (yes, if you hadn’t clocked it from all the palestine coverage a few weeks ago, this is a lefty newsletter).
it’s also an absolute banger, and so so so catchy i’m loving it. with a beautiful voice, a banging lil beat and a lot of fun. so get ready everyone and enjoy a sick tune for you all on this lovely tuesday morning. and see you in the rest of the week with your playlists dropping in force!
i am, once again, telling you to pay attention to the details because the details in this song are what make it pop. at 1:04 the treatment of the vocals on this are so funny but for a song that just repeats and repeats the one melody, doing little bits here and there to make it warble and work is so clever. especailly when it’s done with such finesse, this is the gentle hand of someone who wants to do a wee bit and not much more. it really adds a lot to the vocal because you start really paying attention to every lyric, and that’s when you realise. this singer has played a trick on you, a little bamboozle, a gotcha moment. you see, the main melody in this is so catchy you get lost in it, you start whistling it, and it does the cleverest thing. it starts to play with that melody itself, devolving and becoming washed out. but you don’t really notice it because by the time of the final chorus where that melody is falling apart, you’re singing it yourself. the melody has moved from the song you’re listening to to the song you’re taking apart in. that’s not an easy thing to do, and it’s something this song sets out to achieve from the first beat, and knows it’s achieved because of that final refrain. the last lil run through of the melody is unaltered, a pull back moment of clarity that you can’t help but feel a part of because until this point you’ve been carrying the clarity of the track in your head. goddamn that’s clever.
this song feels like i’m going to hear it at a festival one day and it’ll be like an extended version where it’s like the last song. they’re going to really drag it out and really really build it up and up and everyones gonna go crazy, it’s going to be on the bbc on like radio 2 and they’ll have like, i dunno, slash, there just wailing on one. anyway, when that day comes we will get the true version of this song and until then i’ll be left wondering abotu what could be, or could have been.
i went to go buy super noodles earlier while this was playing in my earphones and lemme tell you, i felt like the main character. absolutely bumpin around and around it was so sick. doing lil jumps in puddles, having a wee groove. top tier.
i’m gonna let you in on the process here for a second, because sometimes this section is genuinely the hardest of the whole review. i will genuinely spend like an hour just writing this little paragraph because finding the right point of comparison is so tricky. and this review, no exception! and then it hit me, everything everything, an absolute killer band doing a very much their own thing, and this song really hits that energy. it’s so sick and i love em both.
i think this might be an artist captured right before they pop off. they’re not doing crazy numbers on the streams, but some of their songs have gone crazyyyyyyy. so strap yourselves in because this artist is going to go somewhere, and you all are gonna be able to say hey! i know them, i know them from this neat newsletter where i foud out about them and other artists, like bears in trees or fat dog or chappell roan yes i knew about chappell roan before loads of people and featured her on here like a year ago! like this artist, who is also going to pop off. i think i’ve made my point. anywho, this artist rules and their other music is sick and that’s what matters. they’ve got an absolute killer voice, they’re writing some really top notch stuff and it’s really fun to watch them grow through their discography.
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chalk this one up alongside smoke on the water for songs that use incredibly simplistic melodies and make em work where so many artists have tried and failed. top tier, well done all.
i again don’t know how this song does it, but it takes a super simple set of melodies and makes them into something timeless, maybe there’s a theme this week! maybe!
don’t ask why i love this song! i do! and that’s enough! so it is!
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