The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams
You’re not alone / Like you think you are / We all have scars / I know it’s hard. In the chorus of Hope, song 4 from her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, 20-year-old British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks repeats this simple message of, well, hope. This song, and the forty-minute album of which it is a standout track is like a warm breeze in the middle of a frigid winter.
Helena Deland — Someone New
The basics of rock kind of remain the same. It's 🎸 + 🎸 + 🥁+🎤 = 🎶. That simple. But there's so much that can happen with those raw materials. Perhaps it's because my rabid love of music coincided with my discovery of post-punk, but I'm always blown away by simple evocative music. Drawing a bath and settling in for my nth listen-through of Canadian indie gold: Helena Deland’s Someone New.
Merchandise — Children Of Desire
There are some songs and albums that go with certain memories like peanuts in plastic white cups used to go with Friday nights back in the day. I had just graduated from college and had just begun life as a rent-paying adult. White men crooning soulfully over fuzzy, reverb-drenched, jangly guitars had become a large part of what indie rock sounded like. My Friday nights were peanuts in plastic cups with friends listening to, among other songs, Merchandise’s Become What You Are. My Saturday mornings were glasses of water alone in my room listening to, among other albums, Merchandise’s Children Of Desire.
Indie / Bedroom / Pop / Surf Rock - 24/7 Radio - Nice Guys Chill FM
The infinite YouTube playlist is a real genre: think lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to with that study girl gif, which had many of its millions of listeners up in arms when it was briefly taken down off of YouTube earlier this year. I’ve recently discovered my favourite of this genre of 24/7 curated YouTube radio.