Songs To Brush Your Teeth To

Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (12th October)

Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (12th October)

Songs To Brush Your Teeth To is our regular new music update where we bring you five songs to listen to each week – our suggestion is to do that while brushing your teeth so you make new music a good daily habit, but honestly, you can listen whenever you like. We won’t judge.

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Read on for this week’s recommendations.

Worm Girlz – FuneralSingle Cover For Worm Girlz Funeral

Worm Girlz have never shied away from saying something with their whole chest. Determined to leave the music industry, and ultimately the world, a better place than they found it they’re very comfortable putting current issues front and centre in their music. And Funeral is no exception. The mournful track explores a deep grief for both the current political state of the world and for the treatment of marginalised communities.

“Over the past three years we have all been witness, through our flashy phone screens, to horrific acts of torture and genocide in countries such as Sudan, DRC, Syria and most publicised in Palestine,” says vocalist Lauren. “As a human being, I cannot help but feel overwhelmed by grief for the ever-increasing number of lives lost and families affected, betrayal towards the people in power who choose not to use their power to help, and disillusioned by the lack of justice.”

Find out more about Worm Girlz here.

Lasca Dry – Mad Heartbeat

Image of Lasca Dry dressed in white
Credit: Supplied

Equal parts dream pop and 70s groove, Perth based Lasca Dry’s latest track Mad Heartbeat has a great energy to it, with just a subtle hint of nostalgia. Thematically the song is almost pre-empting heartbreak, and is about that fear of ending up in another bad romantic situation.

Lasca expands:

“Mad Heartbeat is about searching for love and desperately not wanting to end up in another bad situation. You meet someone, you start falling, and there’s this little voice underneath it all saying, ‘please don’t be bad like the others.’ You want so badly to believe that this time will be different. Then something happens that breaks that trust. But it’s not as simple as just walking away. You wait, you hope, there are promises that things will change, and somehow you find yourself falling all over again. There’s this fear that maybe the love you’ve been dreaming of is something this person will never be able to give you – but your heart is still holding on, asking them to give you a sign,”

Find out more about Lasca Dry here.

Possum – Ask Your Father

Image of Possum leaning on a table
Credit: Morgan Stoneham
Ask Your Father is the latest single from Possum’s (Kizzy Davies) album Paynesville Seafood (also released this week on Bandcamp). The folk inspired track is captivating in its storytelling as it talks of a relationship breakdown through the eyes of the ‘father’. I enjoyed how it managed to cover so many of the complexities and nuances of relationships: the role of partriachy, the often mundane realities of relationships in your 30’s and 40’s and the self doubts that so many people carry. All set against the backdrop of the regional town of Paynesville where Kizzy grew up.

Find out more about Possum here.

Juice Webster – Pretty Please

Image of Juice Webster in a blue sweater swishing her hair
Credit Joey Clough

Juice describes this track as  “A Miscommunication diss track. It’s about frustration with people talking around the truth and sharing their opinions without knowing the full picture. It was really fun to write because I just leant into the kind of brattyness of it. I didn’t feel the need to overcomplicate it or intellectualise it at all which sometimes trips me up when I’m writing songs”.

It’s a fun, indie rock record, really driven by these heavy distorted guitars that contrast with Juice’s light vocals.

Find out more about Juice Webster here.

Daine – Wishing Well

Image of two hands palm up holding some silver coins. Single Cover for Daine's Wishing Well

I’m finding it almost impossible to skip anything by Daine at the moment. They’ve been on fire with their single releases this year and Wishing Well is no exception.

The track is built around a simple strummed guitar and looks at the idea that ‘money can’t buy happiness’ and that material wealth won’t remove the insecurities. I particularly like the imagery of the wishing well and the idea that we throw money into the well to get our “heart’s desire” as the fairy tales would say.

Find out more about Daine here.

 

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