Today’s song teaches us about space. The room awareness of “Nobody Cares (You’re Sitting at Home) by Moonglow is uncanny. The song starts with dry yet brash drums and in your face vocals repeatedly singing “You’re sitting at home, and nobody cares about you”. You feel like you’re sitting in the room with the band, at home I suppose. There is a nice drum break with what sounds like a keyboard adding tiny bird like sounds. There are choir-esque backup vocals in the first verse, they are washed with so many filters and a bucket full of reverb where they are almost unrecognizable as vocals. Despite all of the effects they work in the mix really well. The song decrescendos with the bird like sounds again and the vocalist repeating “nobody cares about you” until we fade out completely. The song is smooth and simple yet has some heavy lyrics that are stated quite frequently. The words gently flow from the vocalists mouth like he is jaded by years of being out of the house and uncared for. You can imagine him telling the song like a story over a cigarette. The drums and keyboard are simple as well but important to the melody and rhythm. I liked the song, it was over before I knew it but you can always listen again….
Thursdays With J.R. – Moonglow
Friday 5×5
You know the drill, five songs so good they don’t need us boring and blabbing about them. We keep it succinct and let the music do the talking on these stand out tracks from Kowloon, Dome Dwellers, Killer Bee, Kevin George and Sharkorama.
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The B-Side: Reticent Alien
What a cool song. “Get the Picture” by Reticent Alien has a bopping, galloping acoustic guitar core that gives it a unique sense of movement you just don’t hear in songs these days. It pulses and moves things along like a strong current, upon which swim the vocals and lyrics that remind us a bit of one of the all time unsung great songwriters; Michael Penn. It’s one of the coolest combinations we’ve heard in a while, with a distinctly different type of shredding and a top notch song to boot.
Week Ender – Higher Selves Playdate
The Omega to the Week Starter Alpha, Week Ender is the song we want to send you into the weekend with.
A simple scratchy acoustic guitar progression kicks off “Coming Up Roses” by Higher Selves Playdate but it’s not long before things have built into a glitchy, fuzzed out, synth laced noisy and melodic and glorious anthem to uncertainty. Even though the song never really strays from that original scratchy progression, a multitude of instruments are dug out of HSP’s toy chest to make an appearance, giving the song not only a sense of movement and change but also one of lo-fi epic-ness. Repetitive lyrics add a level of pop hookiness to the whole affair to make one of the unlikeliest catchy ear worms of the year.
Friday 5×5
Five by five isn’t just how many tissues per hour we’re going through thanks to allergies, it’s also short short reviews of brand new tracks by Tunnel, Sadboisam, Beggars Bold, AJ Lambert and Kristian Moller-Munar that are perfect for a Benadryl haze.
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