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JEEN – “Chemical Emotion”
Country: Canada
Genre: Indie Rock
From the Artist: “The spangly “Chemical Emotion” starts us off, takes our hand and the carousel begins. Inspired by the Hunter S. Thompson quote “buy the ticket, take the ride,” JEEN explains that “it’s about letting yourself drift in the flow of everything and hanging on as hard as you can to what makes the shitty parts more tolerable.”
Posable Action Figures – “Stronger”
Country: UK
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “Within our lifetimes there are certain people that seek to diminish us, to hold us back, to make us hurt. They believe that their actions are justified, and that we lack the fortitude to stand our ground, let alone the potential to surpass them. What they don’t realise is that with every act of cruelty they only make us STRONGER”
Carleton Stone – “Hard Days Work”
Country: Canada
Genre: Singer-Songwriter
From the Artist: “On his new single, “Hard Days Work,” Carleton puts himself in the shoes of the blue collar dads he grew up around, paying tribute to those who built the houses and towns on Cape Breton Island.”
HOAX – “b?”
Country: US
Genre: Indie Rock
From the Artist: “Behind all the facades we put up, under all the masks we wear – there we are: Ourselves in Being form. It used to be very hard for me to explain what it meant ‘to be’ to other people. And believe me – I know I am not original in this line of questioning. For God’s sake, we all know what Shakespeare said through Hamlet, but as the album developed, it became clear to me that ‘being’ is synonymous with ‘peace’. And that peace looks different in everyone’s mirror. It starts with self-reflection, and never ends with anything other than life devotion to your truest form. I’ve said it so many times throughout our career, but if there is anything you take away from listening to HOAX and this album, it’s to please prioritize your peace. We are only here for a moment in the blip of infinity, and during that blink, our peace and being will always be under the scrutiny of the randomness and chaos of life. Perfect the art of sitting still, to know yourself, show and embody empathy, and be authentic to your peace.”
Laugal – “Dead Flowers”
Country: Canada
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “The meaning and story of the song, as the chorus states, “i’ll keep waiting for dead flowers” is about how the subject (the ambiguous “she” prefers to be waiting for something that no longer exists rather than picking up in the present where life left off. I think it is something we often find ourselves doing: It is easier to revel in the nostalgia of how we once did something so well rather than face the reality that at present we can’t make it real anymore (like remembering ourselves as awesome musicians as kids, lets say, taking piano or something, but too scared to pick it up and start again).”
Dust Cwaine – “Aliens in LA”
Country: Canada
Genre: Alt Pop
From the Artist: “This is my Fat Anthem,” says Dust. “I spend a lot of time thinking about fatness and how it is so out of rhythm with the rest of the world and how amazing that is; how much power that yields. This song carries that reflection. Lyrically this song came very easy, and Josh’s instrumentation is OUT OF THIS WORLD! The guitar is exuberant, rowdy, and in my opinion more catchy that the vocal melody. The alien metaphor is playful, and the synth is delicious! When we worked on this song, I said I wanted it to feel like you just hopped off a plane at LAX, the sun is setting and you are in a taxi flying down the freeway into downtown LA. Evoking feelings of Pretty Woman, Die Hard, and Clueless, but FATTER.”
Souls Extolled – “Never Like Before”
Country: US
Genre: Indie Rock
From the Artist: “The song is best summed up by the lyrics of it’s own Chorus: Never really like before But we know That we’ve got to carry on But we won’t Ever forget how it was When we were Never gonna grow apart”
ARGO – “Sprawling Resign”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “This is a frantically paced gothic alternative rock song that seeks to encapsulate the anxieties one feels in a new place through lyrics and sound.”
The Best Around – “Kissing Your Ass”
Country: US
Genre: Indie Rock
From the Artist: “”Kissing Your Ass.” An anthemic breakup sing-a-long, the new single features bouncy, funk beats fused together with bluesy guitar leads and synthesizers to create an anthem for anyone who is being dumped, dumping someone, quitting their job, or whose favorite team is about to crush a long-hated opponent.”
Gardening – “Relapse”
Country: UK
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “I was thinking about how we often confuse being apart from the circumstances of certain feelings and anxieties with actually moving on from them. We believe we’ve grown, but once we’re back in the same environments, everything rushes back with a vengeance. I’ve had times in my life where this realisation has wrecked me for weeks and totally punctured my self-image, but the details of those examples are no fun, so here we’ve got someone having a total meltdown in an adult’s soft play centre in some echo of a farcical childhood crisis.”
Brother Swan – “When’s The Last Time”
Country: US
Genre: Garage Rock
From the Artist: “Our third single from our upcoming LP, Loom, “When’s the Last Time” is brimming with nostalgia. Lost to the temptation of reminiscing on what might have been, singer Chris Matthews is “drunk on a memory, hoping you’d just return as someone else”. Ever self-aware, he goes on to wish he could “feel it all” but “can’t take another fall”. Searing e-bow guitars sing out, violin-like on top of a bed of jangling rhythm guitars, pumping bass, and a danceable beat, completing the self-aware contrast that lies at the heart of the song. Just as the track settles into a 70’s and 80’s inspired verse, the harmonized vocal chorus brings in the pastel Beach Boys element that sets Brother Swan apart from other indie bands today.”
Track Five – “Hold You”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “Me and my band made this song 2 years ago and it finally got released with it blowing up locally in Austin Texas”
Javi Goodnight – “I Got No Job”
Country: Canada
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “We’re a Toronto based band, all of us are implants to the city and we love it here. The song was written by our singer, Fernando, after meeting us for a band practise moments after he got fired from his job. It’s meant to be a bit tongue and cheek; a bit therapeutic if that much?”
Violet Moons – “False Prophet”
Country: US
Genre: Alt Rock
From the Artist: “A 90s inspired rock song with eerie vocal harmonies and heavy drums.”
Twin Dive – “Biblical”
Country: Denmark
Genre: Grunge
From the Artist: “”Biblical” is the first track on the debut album “Lavish Material” by Twin Dive. It criticizes narcissism and ego-mania while celebrating confidence, resilience and character. The song is based of a poem by the former drummer of the band, re-worked to be a song about that very drummer.”
