5 Songs from The Faves
This week we picked songs from post-punk project Shiftwerk, New York’s speedrun, darkwave artist Tiffadelic, indie rock band Sun Junkies and Sleep Tactics.
You can also catch up on music from bands like thistle., and Muscle by listening to our playlist The Faves. Scroll down to listen!
Tiffadelic - NAZARETH (B.O.P)
“It is important for artists to be speaking up right now in this time of global unrest, mass displacement, and state-sanctioned violence because silence is a tool of the oppressor,” explains Detroit darkwave artist TIffadelic. In a statement, she calls her new song “NAZARETH (B.O.P)” “a revolutionary post-punk and minimal wave protest—minimal in form, maximal in impact. It confronts the violence of displacement and the spiritual hypocrisy of those who preach salvation while bombing sacred ground.” As she poses, “Artists are not separate from the world. We reflect it, challenge it, and reimagine it.”
Sleep Tactics - The Laughing Hearts
Sleep Tactics, the alt-rock band from Philly, has released their latest single “The Laughing Heart.” On the song the band shares, “This is a song about personal solitude. It's a reconciliation of that solitude, followed by an expression of desire for something more. Sort of an expression of worthiness in an attempt to reject that solitude.” Sleep Tactics will be returning to the stage on 8/30 at Milkboy alongside Goings and Countdown From Ten.
Sun Junkies - Looking Out of Buildings
Ontario indie band Sun Junkies have announced their next album. According to vocalist Noah Carmichael, the first single “Looking Out of Buildings” is “about looking back on something that no longer exists, and how those memories fade away over time. I was expressing guilt in regards to how past friendships and relationships have ended. I was trying to come to terms with past mistakes.” The song sees the band working with a producer for the first time. Could this be a sign of what’s to come?
Shiftwerk - Distant Lights
The musical idea growing out of a synth line, Shiftwerk’s single “Distant Lights,” tackles the need to discover the things that we can’t quite touch. “I grew up in a post-industrial northern town in the UK; Concrete despair,” the post-punk Canadian-based artist explains. “Always close to something better: the glow of a city just out of reach. The sound of cars when you first wake up and can tell it’s raining, trains zooming past to places that felt infinitely more alive. It’s that Sisyphean feeling of existing in a loop, dragging yourself from one quiet horror to the next.”
speedrun - memory
New York’s speedrun, who blessed us with last year’s fave EP Love’s Latest News, is back with “memory.” The indie chic(k) artist says, “memory” is about the joys and pains of remembering someone, somewhere, or something. How memory functions as both a gift and a punishment, a blessing and a curse. O sweet human mind, how u play tricks on us so!!”
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New music from speedrun, Shiftwerk, Tiffadelic, Sleep Tactics and Sun Junkies.