Every Friday, we end the week on a good note with a selection of freshly released songs.
Here are our new #RecsFriday! (You can also find them on our Instagram and Twitter accounts)
From us to you. With love.
Our Bones Turn to Stone – Aquilo
Our Bones Turn to Stone might describe some sort of emotional heaviness, but it feels light on the heart and soft to the ears. Starting off as a piano-led ballad, it builds until it finally soars in a whirlwind of piano, violons, and, inevitably, emotions. And without any words, it feels like what the protagonist has been looking for is found– or at least, like they reached a certain sense of peace. Although written before the pandemic hit, the track can’t be taken out of the current context we live in. Especially lines such as: “And there’s no place to go / I gotta do a little running to get back home.” The British duo, made up of Ben Fletcher and Tom Higham, followed up the release with an album announcement. “It’s been 2 years in the making, we wanted to paint a picture of everything we’ve been through, everything we can remember, all in our own safe place called home,” Aquilo wrote on Instagram. Borrowing some lyrics from their latest single, they titled the record A Safe Place to Be. It’s set to come out on October 15. ⬪ Ahlem Khattab
Oh! – The Linda Lindas
I first listened to this song on my way home and I might have started to walk to its rhythm. But more than the catchy melody, it’s really the lyrics that drew me to Oh! (the title you’ll want to repeat along with The Linda Lindas whenever it comes up). We probably all experienced that mix of confusion, incomprehension and being fed up with everything/everyone, either in our personal lives or when taking a look at the world we’re living in. That’s precisely what I felt Oh! expressed for me. And if you need to let out some of those feelings, I think it could be exactly the song you need. ⬪ Julia Bergier
Grow – Samm Henshaw
For a long time, the London-based singer-songwriter had us used to him releasing only singles and EPs (and even uncovering originals for the first time in acoustic sessions), but then in May 2021, he switched things up for the better and announced that he would be releasing a debut album titled Untidy Soul, without much details. “This is a story about Sonny,” is the only clue he gave. A new and cohesive aesthetic made its way to his social media accounts (he even unpublished many of his past posts on the Instagram, something many artists do these days when headed towards a new era of their career), and the mystery remained up until the release of his first single, the official version of Still Broke, labelled “episode 1”. It shall be a story unveiled in chapters, then. On July 22nd, he shared the second instalment of the fictional “Sonny.” Just like the previous track, Grow comes with a carefully crafted video– or rather a short film where the song finds its context. Its events are naturally related to those of the first episode (spoiler alert: watch out for the plant). Although trying to piece together the story is definitely interesting, the song itself is sweet and stands well on its own. ⬪ AK
This Could Be Good – Morningsiders
Whenever I listen to New York-based Morningsiders, their melodies always put me in a good mood and I can’t get their lyrics out of my head. This Could Be Good is no exception. It reminded me of another one of their songs, How Good It Is, in a prequel kind of way. Both are full of good, soft vibes but deal with different stages of a relationship. If life were a romcom, This Could Be Good would be played first, maybe as the soundtrack to the first steps of the main characters’ story. And later, after the love confession, once our characters would be well on their way to happiness, we’d hear How Good It Is. So I guess this recommendation is a 2-for-1 deal (and we could even make it an all-for-1 one with the rest of Morningsiders’ discography), but start with the band’s latest single. You’ll find the same tender vibes in the music video, translated into dance form by Jessi Stegall and Ilya Vidrin. ⬪ JB
