New Music from the Inbox: Dan Mangan, Greer, Shura, and more!
Artist: Dan Mangan
Song: Melody
Album: Natural Light
This song is truly so pretty it makes my heart ache! I cannot wait for Dan Mangan’s new album, out May 16. About Melody, he says: “Contentment is a slippery fish, and the harder we squeeze it, the quicker it’s gone. Melody’ is about needing affirmation from something over which you have no control. It’s about the grief of having something special and then losing it – about getting the benefit of the doubt, and then no longer getting the benefit of the doubt. It’s about love, or society, or the music industry, or a brief moment above par on the existential rollercoaster.”
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Artist: M(h)aol
Song: DM:AM
Album: Something Soft
On their new single, M(h)aol says, “This song is about men DM’ing women online and then getting aggressive when they don’t get the response they want. They quickly turn to insults about the women, and then once the woman says she’ll expose what they’ve done, she gets a laundry list of reasons why he behaves like this and how much he has to lose, which is meant to make the women feel sorry for them.” Their new album, Something Soft, will be out May 16.
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Artist: Greer
Song: She Knows
Album: Big Smile
This is my personal favourite track from Greer’s fantastic debut album, Big Smile, which is out now!
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Artist: Shura feat. Cassandra Jenkins
Song: Richardson
Album: I Got Too Sad For My Friends
Richardson is the latest taste of Shura’s upcoming album, I Got Too Sad For My Friends, out May 30. A collaboration with the ever-wonderful Cassandra Jenkins, Shura explains: “much of Richardson was written during a period of time I would walk around Brooklyn listening to Cassandra’s music and now many years later Cassandra has directed a video for Richardson that involves walking around a city that I fell in love with whilst listening to our song because time is a weird soup and we are floating through it.”
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Artist: Panik Flower
Song: OCD
EP: rearview
This single is the second track from rearview, Panik Flower’s sophomore EP that arrives on April 30. They explain: “The song explores the obsessive and addictive relationship we have with media consumption in today’s world and how that shapes us as individuals. It has a complete chokehold on our daily functions living in the modern world even when you’re aware of how toxic it is. The chorus really drives this point home with the repetition of the lines ‘you catch yourself but you can’t catch a break, you catch yourself but you can’t look away.”
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