New Music Friday Playlist This Week’s Fabulous Features
This week’s featured artists have written songs all about rebirth, redemption, and recovery! Click the picture to listen to their powerful tunes on our New Music Friday playlist, while we give you a breakdown on what to expect and what you should know about these incredible artists!
First on deck is Tanatswa Estina’s, ‘Sadder Than I Thought.’, off her recently released self-produced EP ‘I will stay for myself.’ Tanatswa herself describes this song as “an indie rock hymn for recovering perfectionists”! The chorus’ grungy, rhythmic guitar and crashing symbols seem to echo the collective angst of all the now-adults who can’t quite seem to fill the shoes of their once-promising former selves. Lead guitar adds a thoughtful, reflective presence against the lyric’s staggering sentiment, “Don't know how to see myself as valuable/ Without doing something to 'earn' or 'prove' it”. The inner struggle to love oneself as we are, in spite of the deep-seated conditioning to prove ourselves as worthy, can leave us feeling trapped in the madness of deciphering what it really means to be “perfect”. If you’re searching for a song where you can let it all out and come out the other side feeling seen and whole, this is it!
We come through next with Chloe Duvall and her smashing single, ‘I Don’t Burn’! None of us escape the fate of playing the villain in someone’s story at some point in our lives or another. According to Chloe, ‘I Don't Burn’ is “an empowering alternative pop song about going through hell and coming back stronger in a villain-era type of way”. This song is layered with poignant and evocative vocals and harmonies, an emphatic chorus, and lyrics that pack a punch. Duvall unapologetically rewrites the story of victimization that comes with being villainized into an authoritative reclamation of the title, “Villain”. ‘I Don’t Burn’, makes a statement, reminding the listener that we have authority over ourselves and our story, and can move forward with strength and conviction. Step into your “Villain Era” and pump yourself up with this tune!
Rounding out this week’s fabulous features is Heather Cole with her freshly released single, “All the King’s Men”! Out today, Cole states the inspiration for this song came when “the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” randomly popped in my head one day and I started singing the line ‘all the king’s horses all the king’s men’”. Co-written with Jessica Sharman, the play on a nursery rhyme was re-birthed into a tale of a relationship broken beyond repair and an ex who won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The fantasy of the nursery rhyme and love lost is mirrored in this synth-y pop tune, with its soft vocals and shadowy harmonies, and rhythmic percussive elements reminiscent of the efforts of ‘all the king’s horses and all the king’s men’s’ fruitless attempts to fix a lost cause. Move on, move up, and play this song for anyone who can’t take a hint!
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