Winter is all about layering up, and our inbox is stylish layer after stylish layer of great new music. Check out new tunes by Emma Elisabeth, S:Bahn, TOLEDO, Yoji, TEKE::TEKE, Teen Mortgage, Vakoum, Juliana Zafa and Mort City
Emma Elisabeth – “Jellyfish”
From Sweden we get this perfect piece of mid-tempo indie rock from Emma Elisabeth. Similar to Deep Sea Diver (who had one of our favorite releases last year) with a subtle undercurrent of roots rock mixed in. Elisabeth’s voice is rich and layered and we wonder if we may have just found a contender for favorite release of 2021.
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S:Bahn – “We Move”
90’s post-punkers from Melbourne return with a new jam that sounds just as fresh and crucial as their old work. Best news of the week.
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TOLEDO – “Needer”
A gorgeous, layered bedroom folk number, “Needer” lays out how the pandemic put things in perspective. It’s the sound of two twenty-somethings growing up, and is appropriately beautifully bittersweet.
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Yoji – “Tears On My Piano”
What a lovely unexpected treat to find in our inbox this week. Yoji gives us a piano and vocal only, heart on her sleeve ballad that simultaneously channels the soulfulness of Alicia Keys and the timeless pop smarts of Carole King.
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TEKE::TEKE – “Meikyu”
Gotta love good art rock, especially when it fuses together genres as diverse as psych, surf and traditional Japanese ballads. The real love comes though when you realize how in TEKE::TEKE’s hands it doesn’t sound like an obvious patchwork, but rather one consistent, new and exciting sound.
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Teen Mortgage – “Such Is Life”
Hi, can I interest you in a little over 90 seconds of ass kicking, not fucking around, fist pumping, foot stomping revved up garage/punk rock and roll? I thought so.
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Våkoum – “Golden Love”
The blending of instrumentation, soundscape and layered vocals in a non-traditional structure allow “Golden Love” to create something that plays less like a song and more like a feeling. There’s an obvious Bjork influence here, not just in the vocal performance and production, but also in the attention to detail.
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Juliana Zafa – “February”
Some songs are, as they say, a whole ass mood – and this is one of them. It’s got effortless cool for days, but this is a night time jam. This is the soundtrack to walking deserted streets in the quiet, sexy, ominous hours.
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Mort City – “On The Scene”
What a glorious piece of “what the fuck?” this song is. Scriggly noisy free form guitar over a stutter stop drum part and a bass part trying to split the difference between the two. And riding on top of that is what can probably be best described as “slacker rap.” This song was love at first “????”
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