New Music From The Inbox – Monday Edition! (Mar 27, 2023): Your ex and I, Terry Emm, Boy Bleach, and more!
Every week, we’re sent dozens if not hundreds of promotional emails from agents, PR firms, and hopeful artists containing the latest releases from around the world. From the biggest superstars to the ambitious self-starters we comb through it all to highlight to you what we’ve been digging, the tunes that caught our eye, and the recommended selections that make the notifications worth it. This is New Music From The Inbox! (Short on time? Listen to this article in playlist form!)
Artist: Your ex and I
Song: ‘Heartbreaker by Design’
Album/EP: Your ex and I
Smouldering rock pouring straight from a betrayed lover’s heart, Your ex and I carry all of the dark panache of AM-era Arctic Monkeys in the tight verses of ‘Heartbreaker by Design’. Irked, sharp choruses and reverb-heavy guitar melodies lend some mystery and indignation as the lyrics untangle a web of lies, carrying out some of the steps of grief in sonic form.
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Artist: Terry Emm
Song: ‘Island Soul’
Album/EP: Wish You Were Here
A light shuffling calypso beat, breathy vocals with congenial hums, and gently strummed chords build a charming oasis on Terry Emm’s ‘Island Soul’. Emm and guest vocalist Maz O’Connor share an endearing duet amongst the lapping, lovely, lazy instrumentals – you can practically picture the sun-soaked beach already.
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Artist: Boy Bleach
Song: ‘Daylight Robbery’
Album/EP: Single
Incisive alt rock with heavy streaks of new-wave, post punk, and even a touch of industrial – perfect for a fed-up working man’s protest track! Londoners Boy Bleach decry the modern political landscape with angsty energetic sneers like only young artists could, hammering out a cacophonously layered performance with any noisemaker at hand.
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Artist: Downtown Patriots
Song: ‘Said and Done’
Album/EP: Dance out of the Dark
Taking the careening and anxious approach to a breakup song, Downtown Patriots alternately wallow and scrape at the bright side in ‘Said and Done’. Thin and flailing guitar tones blossom into belting choruses before shrinking into a striking uncertainty again, matching the song’s narrative give and take. Keep an ear out for the grunge influences, particularly when the Dance out of the Dark single builds into its climactic mic drop.
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Artist: Em & Dzeej
Song: ‘Like Her Before’
Album/EP: Em & Dzeej
Em & Dzeej tap into a gripping energy despite their curiously simplistic composition in ‘Like Her Before’. No-frills instrumentation and songwriting lay a pretty basic power chord base that leaves plenty of focus on duetted vocals and a steadily building collection of outbursts. It’s almost like an experimental drone song had all of its elements lifted and transcribed into a poppy college rock form.
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