Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (6th July)

Songs To Brush Your Teeth To (6th 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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So it’s a bumper week this week with 10 tracks on the list. I didn’t forget or miss last week’s recommendations, they were done, I just got sick over the weekend and by the time I recovered it was too late to publish. So last week’s five are mixed with five more great tracks from the past couple of weeks to bring you a double helping of Songs To Brush Your Teeth To.

Iluka – Woman Gone Mad (the raging)

Speaking on the original release, ILUKA shares, “‘Woman Gone Mad’ is a song for the insane times we’re currently living through. While oligarchy and fascism seem to be the new reality as weak men in power become more unhinged, I think music, art, and community are what’ll save us. My neighborhood of Altadena in Los Angeles was burned to the ground, and there’s also
this element of grief in the song…watching the billionaires continue to get richer as our planet and home is literally on fire.”

This latest imagining, Woman Gone Mad (the raging) really hones in on the messaging of the track. Stripped back to Iluka’s powerful country tinged vocals and an acoustic guitar it pushes the sadness to the forefront of the track, dispels some of the anger and truly reflects the journey grief often takes.

Find out more about Iluka here.

Queenie – Vivid

You know we’re HUGE fans of Queenie here and Vivid is the latest release from upcoming album Pleasance. Queenie shared that Vivid is coming from a place where she feels stable and in control of her life, and it’s “about me hoping that it stays like that and that it’s not just a big, vivid dream”. It’s possibly the track that sets the tone for the whole album, I love that the song has these big lyrical swells in it that in my mind represent that hope and happiness. Cannot wait for this album to drop!

Find out more about Queenie here.

Body Type – Sick Bag

Another release we’re eagerly anticipating is Body Type’s upcoming EP Tally. Sick Bag is the third single from the record. Written as the result of a relationship that felt increasingly one sided it retains Body Type’s candid lyricism and creates one of their most vulnerable songs to date, examining the fine line between generosity and self-erasure. “It could be a beautiful thing, really. When someone loves you so hard it makes you feel sick. Someone make me spew!” says lead singer Sophie McComish.

Find our more about Body Type here.

Worm Girlz – Kills Me Like You Do

Released in the middle of pride month Kills Me Like You Do continues Worm Girlz celebration of queer joy! Driven by yearning, intimacy and the excitement of a new love, Kills Me Like You Do captures the euphoric rush of unrestrained, dramatic love.

On the track, Lauren shares: “I love the melodrama of a new connection. Savouring every moment, drawing out every second. All of your senses feel heightened as you fawn over a new obsession.”

Find out more about Worm Girlz here.

PJ Harvey – Voyager

Not my typical inclusion on STBYTT, but for anyone not aware I am obsessed with PJ Harvey and I feel it’s important to occasionally give a nod to the women who paved the way for others. If we think the industry is brutal for women now, imagine what it was like for Polly Jean Harvey when her career started (or maybe it was better and we just got worse as humans, who knows?). The track highlights Harvey’s prowess as a multi-instrumentalist and while the song is ostensibly about the Voyager space missions, Harvey’s contemplations about our place in the universe as a small blue dot I think are far more self-reflective than she’d perhaps claim.

Discussing the track, PJ Harvey shared: “I was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the ‘voice’ of Voyager 2. I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.”

Find out more about PJ Harvey here.

Slothrust – Burn The Deck

I’m always keen to hear tracks from female fronted alt-rock artists and Burn The Deck By Slothrust is such a great example. Adding a melodic edge to its hard rock shell I love how the energy shifts during the song and the vocals are given space to breathe and resonate.

“Burn the Deck is a song encouraging people to dismantle the current systems keeping them in a cage of their own making,” Leah and Will said of the new single. “It’s a surrealist disruptor’s anthem that beckons listeners to carefully consider what they are consuming and challenge their notion of who is really driving.”

Find out more about Slothrust here.

The Lazy Eyes – Always In The Back Of My Mind

It always brings a sense of reminiscence when I hear a song by The Lazy Eyes, but I can never quite put my finger on what it is reminiscent of. There’s something about their unique blend of pop and rock that I really enjoy. This track definitely leans a little more into a guitar driven typical indie rock style but still interspersed with these light, high vocals and it’s that push and pull which makes their sound stand out.

Vocalist Harvey explains, “This song features one of my favourite instruments to play at home, the Farfisa Bravo. I bought it for about $50 and I just love the tone and charm that it has. It also has an inbuilt drum machine which features in the song too. It’s one of those instruments that makes anything you play sound good.”

Find out more about The Lazy Eyes here.

Aubory Bugg – Nosedive

Another artist I have a huge soft spot for is Aubory Bugg. While still retaining that folk flavour they are known for, nosedive builds into a rockier track showing how Bugg’s vocals can hold up against a bolder, more intricate track.

“Nosedive came from a time when a former partner put me in a very awkward situation. Writing this song was the only way to really put into words the way I felt in that moment,” Bugg says of the new track.

Find our more about Aubory Bugg here.

Night Tapes – Swim

I love songs that I can’t quite categorise, and Swim by London trio Night Tapes is exactly that. The floaty, ethereal, echoey vocals make the track feel disorienting – like a house of mirrors. And this illusion further builds in the later half of the track as the vocals layer atop each other before stripping it all away to an almost spoken word bridge. It’s a song that it doesn’t feel right trying to explain what it’s about, and any attempt to do so takes away from the experience of it.

Find out more about Night Tapes here.

Hannah Potter – Judith’s House

Naarm (Melbourne)’s Hannah Potter returns with Judith’s House, a less folk inspired and more soft 90s grunge sounding song. Hannah stills manages to captivate with her vocals as she explores connection, loss, and finding your way back to yourself. It brims with emotion and a sparse gentleness that seems set to become her trademark sound.

Find out more about Hannah Potter here.