January has been the best for new releases, so many of my favorite artists have dropped albums and singles and I have been living for it all. I will be for first to admit That my music taste is a bit all over the place and so Because of this the playlist for January is a mess but it is full of banging tunes That made me happy all month long so here is January.
NEW RELEASES
Seeing local artists release new music is one of my favourite things and so when Matt Wills dropped this new track 'Come Back' I was all over it. Being from Kent too I love watching performers achieve their dreams and get out of the place that we have grown to love to hate. With this being said, the track itself is a massive middle finger up to the music industry and generally a step in the right direction for a new path in his career. He completely self produced and released this track himself, under his new record label ADX which is something that is so incredible. I really do suggest listening to Matt's music as it is some of my absolute favourites (other tracks of his worth checking out are Warn You, Emily and Chloe).
While crying to a friend about a boy (wow how relatable lol) she told me to listen to Advice by Kehlani and I fell in love with it. There's something so haunting about her voice and the line 'how is the man of my dreams not a man of his word' will always hurt me to listen to.
Soko is one of those artists that I only ever listen to select songs of and never really divulge myself into her discography (and no this isn't me about to say that I finally have done that) but when I was watching The End Of The F***ing World I heard her voice as the soundtrack for one of the scenes and had to google what the song was. Turns out it was called We Might Be Dead Tomorrow and turns out I didn't take it off repeat for about three days after discovering it.
Ryan Scott Graham has dropped his newest album with Speak Low If You Speak Love which is titled Nearsighted and man I adore this album. It holds so much development from the last album and has bops with sad lyrics which lead me to wonder whether I am supposed to dance around my room or just sit in the corner and cry (or maybe I could just cry while I dance). I love this album, if you want a few tracks from it to listen to then give Ever Yours, Contrasting Colours and Safety Net a listen.
As mentioned in my last post for music monthly I am a sucker for a good remix and so when I discovered the Ta-Ku x Wafia remix of Kanye' and Estelle's American Boy which they retitled American Girl I was hooked. It is so much more chill than the original and has been on in the background while I have been working on a heap of blog posts and other projects, in fact it's just come on shuffle now! If you're into chill tunes and remixes then give this a chance.
Nina Nesbitt has been one of those artists that I've loved since I was about twelve and growing up with her music and seeing her lyrics develop as she grew as a person too has been such a cool experience. Her latest track Somebody Special is called the happy song from her upcoming album and this is one that is so haunting and wonderful. Her sound is fully developed since her debut album Peroxide which was my soundtrack for months on end when it was released a few years ago. I really hope she drops some European dates so I am able to finally get to see her live!
I have also been obsessing over My Obsession by Pale Waves (no pun intended) as well as the rest of their releases. They have such a cool sound, I feel like its a fab mix between The Japanese House and Muna which are two other female fronted bands that I love a whole lot. This is the kind of music that I use to pump myself up for the week ahead of me on a Monday morning.
Troye Sivan also released new music this month and I am beyond excited to see the way that his album sounds after the past two singles. My favourite of the two is The Good Side which is the most beautiful and heart wrenching songs that I have heard in a long time. I'm a sucker for an acoustic guitar and pretty lyrics and Troye has delivered just this with the song, all of the lyrics felt as though they could have been something I ghost wrote (though of course his work outshines anything I can write). The lines 'I'm sure we'll meet in the spring and catch up on everything, I'll say I'm proud of all you've done' cut a little too deep in my Friday morning sleepy haze for me to admit.
Lastly (I did warn you that there had been a heap of new music that I had been listening to this past month) Tonight Alive dropped their album Underworld and reminded me why they are one of my favourite bands. I have loved them for the longest time and got to see them live last April at Ally Pally and now I'm seeing them again in Amsterdam in March and after the release of this album I am so so excited.
OLDIES BUT GOLDIES
So you thought my ranting about music was over when I finished the new releases section? You couldn't have been more wrong, here's me now ranting about a heap of tunes that I hadn't discovered this month but have still made their way into my playlists this past month.
5 Seconds Of Summer are still out here proving to me that I'm really not as over my 'phase' of loving them as I thought I was, The Story Of Another Us came on the other day and I may or may not have shed a few tears. There is just something about this song that will probably always get to me, it is so heartbreaking (wow, can you tell that I have a thing for heartbreaking songs?) and I reminds me of the love I had for them and the joy I felt going to all their gigs when I was younger. Where are you 5SOS? Come back, I want to queue for hours and see you live again!
Recently I have been really feeling iffy about Ed Sheeran's music, there is something so overplayed about his latest album that really bugs me and so the fact that I decided to delve deeper into his old music again was a welcomed breath of fresh air. If you were to ever ask me about my favourite Ed songs I would always refer to his older tracks such as Cold Coffee, Be Like You and So which is why the newer stuff just annoys me. I miss old Ed with his guitar singing about heartbreak and life - the song that resurrected my love for him and restored my faith in why I loved him so much when I was younger was UNI. I remember being twelve and crying over this and not even having an ex lover to cry over and now being at the age where I have seen relationships end because of uni and distance and just hearing it in a completely new way.
If you read my This Months Reads post then you will know I read Here I Am. In this there were numerous references to Nirvana (one of my all time favourite bands to have ever existed) and so with these genius references to their song All Apologies and how the line 'aqua seafoam shame' made absolutely no sense, but that perhaps that is what Kurt wanted to do. To prove that nothing has to make sense, that you can just sometimes say things. Anyway, with all that being said and without giving it a full on English student style analysis I added it to my playlist and reminded myself how much I love Nirvana.
Another band I have revisited are The Internet which are super cool and that I love a lot, their album Ego Death is full of bops and never fails to leave me in a good mood. If you are into R&B/Soul/Electronia then for sure give them a listen because I cannot get over how insane their stuff is and have fallen in love with it all over again after years of forgetting how good they are. My favourite from the album is for sure Just Sayin/I Tried.
Finally, before you all get tired of me rambling about music I had to put Ultraviolet by the Stiff Dylans in another monthly playlist because it is just !! so !! good!!
If anyone ever has any music suggestions for me, or want any music suggestions, please do not hesitate to say me or I would like to know new music.
As always, here's this month's playlist.
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