5 Songs from The Faves
A ton of opportunities to stare at your shoes this week. We’ve got music from shoegazers brightmoon, Wolfschmidt, and Puppy Teeth. New tunes from Blums and Noah Kesey also made our list.
Catch up on more music by listening to our playlist ‘the faves.’
Blums - Cashout
New York’s Blums, Kelsea Feder’s project, announced their debut album Sunk Cost Fantasy. On the video for the first single, Blums says “I had the video idea for ‘Cashout’ over 2 years before I was finally able to make it. I knew that I wanted some fever dream Coyote Ugly bar dance sequence interspersed with knife flipping on the side of the road where I grew up in South Jersey. The song deals with uncomfortable memories and feeling stuck/frozen, so I wanted to turn the video into a fantasy/celebration of the anger to express what couldn’t be in a previously frozen state.” Sunk Cost Fantasy is out August 7, via Take Care Records.
brightmoon - First Light
LA shoegazers brightmoon recently released their debut EP First Light via UK imprint Noon Records. Influenced by Britpop and early 90s guitar music, the duo makes music that can mostly be described as dreamy.
Noah Kesey - Moth
Noah Kesey’s new song “Moth” is close to a free-writing exercise on undefined labels, “This song blew in through the window during a moment of frustration, fully formed and rejuvenating, without deliberation or contemplation, he says. “In that classic stream-of-consciousness way, these lyrics are sourced from thoughts based in specific moments, but the narrative is fantasy. These are unfettered suppositions, cathartic, honest, and subject to interpretation, lyrical vignettes that say something about the dance between two people who inhabit that grey 'situationship' zone.” Check out the video filmed in Vermont!
Puppy Teeth - Melatonin
After a battle with insomnia and sleep deprivation, Puppy Teeth’s vocalist Anna Trost took a pen and paper to write the band’s debut single “Melatonin.” The lyrics took less than five minutes. The result is a song that ended up shaping the band’s overall sound. “Melatonin” is the first single off the band’s upcoming EP Teething.
Wolfschmidt - Whaler
Imagine a dark sea where the waves crash into each other relentlessly. That’s the feeling projected by Wolfschmidt’s new song “Whaler.” This is the band’s first single since they dropped “Crisis” last year. We caught Wolfschmidt at The New Colossus and they were just as expressive as they are on record. “Dive in,” indeed.
What sounds shaped an album about a lost people? The FVL. share the 15 tracks behind Land of Siesta 午睡島, spanning ambient, psychedelia, and 4th world electronics. Listen in.