I'm tempted to just drop a bunch of music here to make up for the last month, because I'm about to go away on vacation again, then come back for 3 days, then go away for work for another week. So I don't think I'll be blogging much. So let me get started and see how far I get before I get tired.
We'll start off with Ghost Orchard, the alias of 21-year-old songwriter Sam Hall. He recently released bunny, which is apparently his third album, but I've only just heard of him. And I've learned that he wrote like 300 songs for the album. And he's friends with one of my new favorites, Dijon. But anyway, bunny is a nice album, but it kind of gets lost in the background for me. I love the sound, but I can't really concentrate on it. But definitely worth a listen. The standout track to me is the opener, Witness.
We'll start off with Ghost Orchard, the alias of 21-year-old songwriter Sam Hall. He recently released bunny, which is apparently his third album, but I've only just heard of him. And I've learned that he wrote like 300 songs for the album. And he's friends with one of my new favorites, Dijon. But anyway, bunny is a nice album, but it kind of gets lost in the background for me. I love the sound, but I can't really concentrate on it. But definitely worth a listen. The standout track to me is the opener, Witness.
We're doing a lot of one-off songs, which is why I feel like I'm just going to drop a bunch of stuff into this blog. Some of it, like Ghost Orchard, is stuff that I like but only feel a need to share one song. But then there's also stuff like OTHERLiiNE where they only have one song. Or some stuff where I maybe only like one song. But yeah, OTHERLiiNE is next. This is a new project from George Fitzgerland and Lil Silva, neither of whom I listen to. But Chimes is their first single and it's fantastic. Very Bonobo-esque. Which makes me wonder what these guys sound like on their own.
So I already picked it up from song 1 to song 2, and now for song 3 we're really gonna pick it up and listen to Bag Raiders. Ok, maybe not pick it up too much with the song I picked. But the band definitely knows how to pick it up. But anyway, they are a very not-new band, but after being inactive for like a decade (as far as I was concerned, anyway) they have just released a new album titled Horizons. It's a pretty fun album, but I'm only going to share one song, How Long. But go listen to the whole thing. It's a fun one.
So those three songs are pretty much what I had planned as a single blog. But I'm going to just keep going and share a few more songs. So up next we have Blue Material, a project of Toronto musician Thom Gillies. He's only got one self-titled album, and to be honest it's a bit boring. But there is one song on there that I love. That I have been listening to on repeat. And that is Cosmic Thunder. So great.
I'm gonna go against what I said up above about one-song each, though. I'm gonna give you two from Blue Material. Because there are only two good songs by him. But both of them are amazing. Super chill, 70s style, lo-fi. Lovely stuff. So the only other song I like by him (which I also really, really love) is the newest single Personal. This one was apparently supposed to be on the album, but didn't make it.
And we're going to go in a completely random other direction now with the last two artists, who were supposed to be on a blog of their own together. We're moving back to the female singer songwriters I love so much, starting out with beabadoobee. First, can we just recognize what a great name that is? I love it. And she's also pretty great. That lo-fi bedroom rock, a la Girl in Red. Hazy, lo-fi bedroom rock. Such a good sound. I'm super into it. Apparently she's only been writing music for 2 years, and she managed to grab the internet's attention with her very first song when she was 17. Which is quite impressive. And to make it better, that was right after she'd moved from the Philippines to London. Talk about a dream come true! Anyway, she's quite good, and I don't really know what song to share, but I want to share something, so I'm gonna share She Plays Bass, which is the first song I heard by her, and it really caught my attention
Back to Toronto for the next lady, Daniela Andrade. Toronto by way of Guatemala, anyway. I've just found her last week when she released her new single Ayayai, which is a wonderful, sexy, jazzy, slinky Spanish song. It's off her upcoming EP Tamale (yum.), which she's released quite a few singles from, I think. Well, she's released quite a few singles, and has a couple of older albums. The new singles are all pretty good. She reminds me a lot of Tei Shi, actually. So definitely looking forward to that Tamale. And for now really enjoying Ayayai. Especially that woo-wee-woo-wee-woo-wee guitary bit.
Ok, last song! I promise! That makes 8 in one blog! Must be a record for me. But this is what happens when I get busy. I don't post. And then I'm afraid I'll forget about songs. And hence I may stop the blog and just start making playlists. Because my rule now is that I can only put songs onto the blog playlist if they're on the blog. And I only have my blog playlist. So that needs to change. But anyway, here's one more I want to share with you. Sore Loser//, by KennyHoopla. The Ohio native is apparently classified as alt-R&B. He's only got 4 songs out, which, until Sore Loser// came out, were released on per year for the last 3 years. Then we got 2 singles in 2019. The others are just ok, but I do really like Sore Loser//. So that's what we're ending on today. And with that, you've made it through the long blog! Go enjoy the music!
