Week in Pop
UK artist SVFARI dropped the track “Switch Your Love” featured off the debut EP Beautiful Human. The shifts of feelings & emotions is told through electronic utterances through the digital arrangements where updates in statuses are expressed in moods that are relayed through blues & understated rhythms. SVFARI provided the following insights on the new single:
I wrote “Switch Your Love” when I found out that someone I was dating had moved on right after our relationship had ended and seemed to be happy. I couldn’t help but feel like if it was so easy to find somebody new so soon, she could probably switch back to me just as easily. I started questioning whether our time together meant anything at all.
San Francisco’s The Silhouette Era step out of the shadows to gift us with a listen to their new single “Tides” from Breakup Records that paints gorgeous chord drawn portraits of the shifts that draw lovers & others apart. “Tides” was recorded with the amazing Jay Pellicci at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco and Oakland’s New Improved Recording where the Silhouettes depict the drift that occurs between two rafts (that once we’re close) that embark upon new horizon, sun rises & sunsets.
Ahead of Mega Bog’s anticipated Nicey debut Happy Together dropping next year, Erin Birgy combines her brand of original futurism with some extremely personal narratives with the stunning single & video for “192014”. A song written out of surviving sexual assault springs toward the safe harbors of embracing self-care & expressing yourself openly while caring for one another on that same level. Read Erin Birgy’s full interview & video debut via our friends at Rookie.
You are invited to get in touch with “Natural” featured off Celadon City’s upcoming Summeryoung EP available November 29 from Ryan Hemsworth’s prestigious Secret Songs imprint. All the maximalist brand new day sorta vibes run out of the wood work to make for an experience that the artist described with the following behind-the-scenes introduction:
“Natural” had been a tough song to finish for the last year and a half. For weeks I would sit and listen to this one song, and later would find something wrong. Its funny that I labeled the track natural, since I was having such a rough time finishing it. What I can say though it that I learned what it means to be natural and confident in your work. It is what makes this collection of songs even more important to me.
Check out the first new episode of Split Single’s “The Sexiest Elbows in Rock” that features legend like Sharon Van Etten, Michael Cerveris, Todd Barry & none other than Cynthia Plaster Caster all together in one zany program.
Behold the Junya Handa video for LITE’s “D” featuring Tabu Zombie found off Cubic available November 16 via Topshelf Records/I Want The Moon (Japan). With cinematography from Yuji Hamada & lighting projections courtesy of Positive Vibes Maker; LITE keeps the mood anything but light by heaping on an array of chords, rhythms & brass in an instrumental that is sharp, swift & dynamic in orchestration & presentation.
Take a glance at the Andy Hines video for Buddy’s new single “Shine” that provides a little something to start your day off to on the proper foot. “Shine” lets the light in that keeps heads held high with hopes reaching upward despite all circumstances of oppression & adversarial forces that present obstacles to justice & the daily grind.
J. Bernardt assuaged all concerns & anxities with the cool new cut “Calm Down” available now via Play It Again Sam. Bernardt puts on his best crooning, debonair vocal pop steez that gives the world something to be turned up or down to depending on how you respond to the track.
Seattle’s own Tay Sean presented the following short film from Noah Porter that introduces us visually to the environments & states of being that informed the nu-future-funk of Leavings available now from Homeskillet Records.
Check out a look at Seattle’s own trio Night Beats with their third Fuzz Club Session where they take on Bo Diddley’s “Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut”. The result is something scuzzier than the fuzz or psych rocking set as the north-westerners take on a rock & roll standard with much bravado & an urgent execution.
Brian Harding from Ex Cops shared a little something-something from his Blond Ambition offshoot with some visuals for “Shasta” edited by Play Too Much. Vintage visuals collect & cluster around Harding’s sunny & funky-fresh sounds that imagines what would happen if summer invade winter & brought a new kind of audio enlightenment.
Rising New York troubadour Hayes Peebles shared the single “Ghosts” that deals in paranormal reflections & echoes of holistic Americana sounds. The pedal steel chord squeal & glow shines like a diamond burning bright in the nigth’s pale light.
Get into the emotive-electronic atmosphere found on Bronze Whale second single collaboration with The Odds on “Call Me Out” that follows up their previous single “Best”. Found off their forthcoming Million EP, sincere croons are given a rich environment to thrive in like a celestial digital dimension where emotions reign supreme.
Step into the sensuous moody electro-blues pool of Her’s new single “Queens”. This is a toast to the regal ones of esteemed royalty & the fury that follows with such reigns from those with the loftiest of titles.
LA duo Phantoms encapsulates the audio from the vast city of angels with their new single “Someone To Talk About” that features guest vocals from Grace Mitchell. The duo arranges an affectionate playground of beats that provides you not only something to talk about but something to dance about to.
Embrace the absolute sentiments of virtually ineffable freedom on Johnossi’s “Air Is Free” video from Blacklite (oka K. Haglund & A. Holmqvist), the title track from the Swedish group’s new EP of the same name that indulges in all the liberating feels on anthemic levels.
Peep Pup’s Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux video for “Sleep in the Heat” from the new album The Dream is Over available now from SideOneDummy & Royal Mountain Records that is an ultra-anthem testimony to the people & the pets that inspire them & much more.
Featured off the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them soundtrack, check out the Jacob Lewis & Darren Skene video for Emmi’s “Couldn’t Care Less” that combines the pop starlet’s regal visage combined with vintage film reels.
Bergen’s own Living presented us with the following listen to their just released self-titled EP through Norwegian imprint Brilliance (home to Novo Amor, L/O/O/N, Niilas, Skatebård, among others). Lucas de Almeida along with Nora Tårnesvik, Sturla Kvernengv & James Kalinoski uncork the feeling of new days rising on “Risen”, the deep electric blue skies experienced on “Cerulean”, the psych-spin of “Apples & Oranges”, the mystic & intuitive “Intuition” that all sweetly & serenely convenes in the tributary ravines of ultra blissful sound & light.
San Francisco’s sea glancing group Eyes on the Shore just released their Maestranza that provides introspective pop tones for idle beach loitering. The lost at sea sentiment stirs on “Washed Away”, to the inner reflections recalled on “Starting Fires”, to further ruminations on being the odd one out with “Black Sheep”, the galloping confidence of “Wolf Runner” that closed it out with the ebb & flow tide patterns found on the title track closer, “Maestranza”. Shooting for the big time radio stations & festival tents; keep an ear out for more from this SF quintet.
Allow the gorgeous new single from Brighton’s Autumn Chorus single to grace the most guarded spaces of heart with “Snake In The Grass” that features leader Robbie Lloyd Wilson baring his soul through strings of song as we send him our deepest meditations & warmest thoughts as he battles cancer.
Indulge yourself in the latest Weirdo single “Sapphire” that burns with piano notes & a host of preciously sequenced & percussion punctuated moods & arrangements. Let Weirdo help guide you into the weirdness & untold wonders of what beauty possibly awaits this weekend.
Featured off Factory Floor’s DFA album 25 25 we bring you the Gabe Gurnsey, Tilly Morris & Ron Gurnsey video for “Wave” that features an array of images that feed & further the imagination as a companion visual piece to the track. The duo’s illustrious electro-percussion sequences are met with moving images of the absurd where the natural & sci-fi worlds are blurred together in blender ready for all international dance floors anywhere. Join the twosome on the next page as they take over our Week in Pop feature with their own exclusive guest selections.
