Seven Fresh Songs #223
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I cannot think of a musician who expresses the carefree summer feel better than Yndling: laying in the grass and looking at the hot shimmering air over a glittering lake. “Careful” is the latest single off her upcoming album Mood Booster, out on August 2 via Spirit Goth.
Sometimes, a song’s title evokes an image that resonates. For Elke, “Build My Own Fever” meant “the little flame that needs to live in me and be nurtured with room to grow.” The Boston indie rocker Arto Faun was thinking about “trying to stay grounded even when things feel untethered and chaotic” when he wrote the song. But that shows the beauty of music: once released, everybody can make it their own.
The London-based singer, producer, and synth wizard Yiota Goutsou, aka Yodashe deliberately aligns composition and lyrics to convey her message. For her new song “CHRYSALID” she uses autotune — the often overused sonic modification of the vocals — to convey breakdown and transformation.
“Soaked,” the new song by Massachusets singer/songwriter Hannah Mohan, is about “accepting the chaos, sinking into it like sinking into a couch.” We all know those moments, so this upbeat pop song reminds us to take everything not too seriously. Hannah will release her new album Time is a Walnut on July 12 via Egghunt Records.
The London artist Sarah Carton makes music as Girl Next Door. In her new bouncy electro-pop single “CTRL,” she goes into a dialog with a controlling love interest. “It’s those few weeks or months when you’re being dragged through equal parts excitement and flirtation vs disappointment and frustration,” Sarah says.
Also from London hails singer and producer Sasha Gurney, who goes by Tragic Sasha. This could be a tongue-in-cheek take on the predominant sentiment in all pop music, and her new song “Die Trying” certainly falls into the tragic realm: the constant pressure to succeed. Sasha lets the production reflect her state of mind: “I wanted the song to feel this sense of panic, the way I sometimes feel when I think too much,” she says.
Being “Underwater out of oxygen” leaves you only one choice: get to the sunlight and fresh air as quickly as possible. The Danish singer/songwriter Siri Neel collaborated with fellow Dane Benjamin Rosenbohm and German drummer Jürgen Stiehle for the epic, cathartic pop production “Oxygen.”
