Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (24th May)
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 listen 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 weeks recommendations.
Teenage Joans – Coming Up From Hell
I’m still amazed by the sheer amount of noise that Adelaide duo Teenage Joans can make. Coming Up From Hell certainly captures your attention. From the reverb drenched opening to the shimmering guitars at the end of this track It’s one of those songs that rocks out from start to finish. Dominated largely by heavy guitar riffs and these big vocals that are almost yelled down the microphone it’s another great release from Teenage Joans.
Find out more about Teenage Joans here.
Body Type – Mulberry
It’s unsurprising to discover that Body Type’s Mulberry is a track that took a while in its creation, as that’s exactly how it feels when listening. It’s a song that creeps up on you, meandering through connections you don’t fully realise until the song’s completion. The track playfully drifts along, the tone of the vocals changing from light and airy, to bold and powerful to spoken word – each part should feel out of place against the others, yet it doesn’t.
Georgia Wilkinson-Derums shares, “Walking barefoot on gravel and thinking about what’s up there while down here. Getting purple stains all over your skin until you become the gravel, the fruit, the stain, the ghost of Prince, a finger pointing at the moon. Anything but the Self! Bab has a sweet little lullaby pressed into the middle of the song, and we worked on an early version during mulberry season too. There’s a photoshoot in the Woonona IGA parking lot to prove it.”
Find out more about Body Type here.
Umbra moon – Beginning of the End
Umbra Moon released their debut EP, Sleepwalking just over a week ago and Beginning of the End is one of the new tracks on there that we didn’t get to hear as a single. It’s a song of contradictions, buoyant in tone yet emotional in its storytelling. It’s upbeat dance pop, with a rhythm that brings liveliness and pace, yet within this are softer sonic spaces, little pauses that allow for quieter moments and a chance to put the focus on some powerful, full throttle vocals.
Find our more about Umbra Moon here.
Rageflower – Push Pin
I love the 90s nostalgia in this latest release from Rageflower. Push Pin is so reminiscent of bands like Joy Division at times and there’s something so powerful about the sense of restraint you can hear in the vocals on the early verses. Overall it’s quite an angsty song, and the fast paced drums add to this emotional intensity yet the delivery of the vocals allow this to feel more of a gradual spiral as the song progresses instead of something that hits you in the face right from the start.
Find out more about Rageflower here.
Pamela – Better Than Before
Taking the final spot on our list are Sydney duo Pamela who return with the quietly euphoric Better Than Before. It has a jaunty melody that pulls the song along, a super catchy hook and there’s a subtle spareness about the track that I really enjoyed.
“It’s a heartbreak song,” they explain “but not the collapse – the exhale after, when it all starts to feel lighter.”
Find out more about Pamela here.