It's summer now. I'm for it. I love this month. Even though I'm working a little bit too much right now, I'm exhilerated by life. Lush vibes call for lush music:
Astrud Gilberto - Nega Do Cabelo Duro
This playlist is full of those amazing little details that raise a song from being great to making me positively obsessed. Case in point: Astrud's way of transforming the words "pente que te penteia" to a staccato rhythmic device. Impossible to not "chi-qe-chi" with her on the sly.
Cosmo Sheldrake - Bathed In Sound
Whale song music, but good? Yes, Cosmo Sheldrake used actual underwater recordings to make a song about underwater life, in what on paper is the most literally cheesy concept imaginable, but in practice turns out to be absolutely envelopingly gorgeous. Thanks in no small part to a lovely, lovely melody.
Caroline Polachek - Billions
Caroline Polachek is another of those artists who can turn any phrase into a great hook, just by force of phrasing and intonation. She does a different version of her magic trick on pretty much every song she releases, and this time is no different; in that it is different.Zzay, zzzay, zzaae, zzaay... something to meAnd then she goes and tops it off with a children's choir. Shamelessly delightful.
Rosalía - Candy
She did it before with Justin Timberlake, and now Rosalia takes the most iconic melody fragment from Burial and makes it unfamiliar, new and emotional on another level.
Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step By Step
And finally for the song that's been most indelibly stuck in my head for the past few weeks. Instant classic in my world. This chorus already feels like it has always been around.
I found a reason to stay
And then it faded away
And I'm already on
On my way out
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