Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (13th July)
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.
Super Free – Tell Me More About The Dark
I’ve been eagerly anticipating this one for a while and Super Free’s debut single definitely doesn’t disappoint. Mixing soft rock with a soul-funk it’s a gentle track driven by rhythmic guitar riffs and drum fills. Lyrically, it’s a dark track. In my mind, it’s a love song to someone struggling, an attempt to reach out, reconnect and show them they’re seen.
Tyler share “TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE DARK was a song I wrote years ago that I actually left in the dust. When the three of us got together for the first time it was given new life and re-emerged as an amazing starting point for us as a band”.
Find out more about Super Free here.
Jacoténe – Shut You Down
Soulful, powerful. Shut you Down is everything you’d expect from Melbourne R’n’B powerhouse Jacoténe. There’s a real confidence that Jacoténe’s vocals can carry the track without the need for too many instrumental layers and it’s absolutely the right choice! It’s the restraint on this track that really sets it apart.
Find out more about Jacoténe here.
REDD. – life
REDD. is an artist I have such a soft spot for. They always bring an infectious energy to their tracks alongside their very real storytelling and latest track life is no exception as it tackles gender dysphoria, identity and coming of age. The song’s high octane beat and punchy lyrical delivery add REDD.’s trademark boldness into the mix.
Speaking on the track REDD. shares , “When I first wrote the song I had a completely different verse one and two. The only thing that stuck was the chorus. It’s very fitting how Frankenstein-ed this whole song was, seeing as that was the main message in the chorus “stitching all the pieces that make me”. I believe that’s what a huge part of life is. Learning, experiencing and discovering new things about who you are, to create and form your sense of self. “
Find our more about Redd. here.
Geowulf – Unsay It All
Gorgeous dream pop track Unsay It All from Geowulf confronts that push and pull of where empathy has to give way to self-preservation. Lyrically it beautifully illustrates that line between hoping someone will change whilst recognising they won’t. The plea of “call me up/give a f*ck” is a heartbreakingly raw example. Such a simple request, yet such a testament to the fact the other person doesn’t care.
Find out more about Geowulf here.
Malibu Spacey – Hard Times, Easy Chair
I really enjoyed this soft rock track from Naarm (Melbourne) band Malibu Spacey. Hard Times, Easy Chair looks at life’s twists and turns from everything going swimmingly to it all falling apart (and then swinging back the other way again). It’s full of twangy guitars and these glorious harmonies that really make it stand out as something a little different.
Evan shared: ‘This one is all about that feeling of watching the world crumble around you when life is going really well, personally. Life has a habit of not staying like that forever, though. Was definitely listening to a lot of vocal harmony groups like Bures Band and The Band when writing this arrangement, too!’
Find out more about Malibu Spacey here.