The SXSW music festival features music from hundreds of artists, and I check it all out. If you like this podcast – currently on break – you might like my favorite songs from them, via a Spotify playlist (still in progress), like the one I made last year.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
L’Etoile by malocchio
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on 2014-01-23
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L’Etoile is a beautifully mellow and ethereal song, with non-verbal vocals.
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Nova Dolphin by CarrotAdventure
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on 2014-01-22
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Nova Dolphin is happy synthpop, with a propulsive backbeat.
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Meteors by CarrotAdventure
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on 2014-01-21
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Meteors is a happy dancy synthpop song.
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You Are Somewhere Around Here by jtron
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on 2014-01-20
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You Are Somewhere Around Here is a remix of a song by the Maybenauts, and it’s largely timestretched: the song is slowed down, which lends the guitars a very heavy sound, like distorted shoegazer guitars.
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Duet by Cantdosleepy
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on 2014-01-17
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Duet is a happy poppy electronic song, not unlike something The Postal Service would do.
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The Kids Aren’t Coming by l2p
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on 2014-01-16
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The Kids Aren’t Coming is a cool punkish song, repetitive but I like the guitar.
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Ballad of Steven Slater by cortex
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on 2014-01-15
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Ballad of Steven Slater is a fun rock song with a subject ripped from the headlines! It’s about a flight attendant who got fed up, walked off the job dramatically, and became a folk hero. A year later, he gave an interview to the Huffington Post, he was in better shape, and avoiding media. Good luck!
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This Was Hardly A Moment by cortex
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on 2014-01-13
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Romantic comedies have tropes like meet-cutes, and sparks found in a moment of connection. This Was Hardly A Moment is a rock song that takes a look at those tropes and says, “uh, no.” There are songs about love at first sight, and this is like an anti-love song.
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After the Summer Has Gone by Karlos the Jackal
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on 2014-01-09
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After the Summer Has Gone is a chamber pop song – think Magnetic Fields, with autoharp and marxophone. It was also part of the “summer song” Music Challenge, but it’s more about how the summer in the past tense.
Edit: The feed isn’t updating. I’m checking it out.
Edit: Something’s up on the server – perhaps there are too many songs? I’ve updated software, plugins, and the server type, and it’s working again. I’m leaving this as the song for tomorrow too.
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Viral by Babblesort
Posted by Pronoiac
on 2014-01-08
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Viral is some relatively spare electronica, with a synth line and percussion; it works as background music, or a soundtrack. It sort of rolls along.
It samples a speech from “The Matrix” and a commentary for “Brazil.”
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Listen to Your Heart by dacre
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on 2014-01-07
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Listen to Your Heart is a clubby dance song, with pulsing synths, autotuned vocals, and a piano outdo. It’s like a muscular and relentless steamroller. It’s fun and ridiculous.
The original version, by Roxette, is a pop ballad. It’s really sedate by comparison.
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Summer’s Calling (remix) by unSane
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on 2014-01-06
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Summer’s Calling (remix) is cheerful garage pop rock. It was part of a Music Challenge about summer songs.
Coming up on the podcast this July: Christmas songs!
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Waltz #2 by chococat
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on 2014-01-03
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Waltz #2 is a pretty if downbeat acoustic ballad, with lovely harmonizing.
It’s a cover of a Elliott Smith tune. The lyrics, and the biographical details behind them, are dark.
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Sin and Vice Vice by l2p
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on 2014-01-01
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Sin and Vice Vice is a lovely bit of garage rock with a 60’s vibe. It’s l2p’s first time on the podcast.
Happy New Year!
Edit: Whoops, I put down 2013. This will be tomorrow’s song too!
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