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.
Abby Wallace – Joey
First up on this week’s list is Joey from Tasmanian singer/songwriter Abby Wallace. Joey combines tenderness with Abby’s witty lyricism. Not quite a love song, it treads the line of wanting someone to share your life with whilst knowing that this particular person probably isn’t the right one. Joey manages to be vulnerable yet self-assured all at the same time.
Find out more about Abby Wallace here.
Fountain Lakes – Cry Wolf
I LOVE this latest release from Fountain Lakes. Cry Wolf is one of the first singles from Fountain Lakes’ upcoming EP Junkyard of Lost Hearts. This eerie, ethereal track combines beautiful dreamy folk lyrics with a jangly, country inspired guitar melody and soft, barely there instrumental layers that gently build during the first half of the track. It’s one of those songs that slowly sweeps you up into its soundscape and it’s a promising taste of what we can hope for from the rest of the EP.
Find out more about Fountain Lakes here.
The Halves – Trackstar
Naarm (Melbourne) based The Halves latest single Trackstar is a chaotic, guitar driven post punk tune. Recounting the story of someone attempting to outrun a night gone wrong, I enjoyed this energetic release. It made me nostalgic for the early 90s Manchester music scene. It’s sort of Joy Division with a hint of The Strokes, but it has a deliberateness to its delivery, a careful intent that takes the Brit pop/indie sleaze sound and turns it into something new.
Find out more about The Halves here.
Gretta Ray – Swimming, Crying
Gretta Ray returns with emotionally complex Swimming, Crying. The track brims with Gretta’s emotive lyricism and unguarded storytelling and in many ways it’s a continuation of her sound prior to her break. Yet, something about her delivery has changed – it’s more guarded, more confident and more mature. The feelings don’t gush out in an almost uncontrolled fashion, they seep through the more you listen, like every word, every note of the song adds something.
Find out more about Gretta Ray here.
Robert Baxter – Kitty Cat
Robert Baxter’s latest release Kitty Cat continues to sit in the space between club hit and pop song, an extension of the sound they’ve been quietly cultivating for the past year. The hypnotic melody interplays with the layered, varied vocals, building a complex, dynamic track about the freedom of choosing what you want right now.
Speaking on the track Robert shares: “KITTY CAT is about the wild side, at this point in my life, I don’t need a person to be sensible and pay for things and tame me, I want someone who isn’t afraid to feel big things, and make my body PURR.”
