Another week! Another batch of tracks has been generated and put into our Discover Weekly playlists. And, like every week, i’ll let you know what three tracks were my favourite!
The first track of this week is Unhappy by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. This is a mastodont album, consisting of 40 tracks. I’ve listened a lot to OutKast over the years, i love most of what they’ve done. However i haven’t been listening that much to the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album, apart from the biggest songs, like Hey Ya!, Roses & The way you move. Unhappy is this beautiful, yet melancholic track, with a groovy groove with a sound of the lyrical elements that brings a eerie, melancholic feeling over this track. This is a well used phenomenon by OutKast, a very happy and upbeat instrumental, with terribly depressive lyrics – like on Hey Ya!. I’m very pleased that i was introduced to this track my Spotify, and it’s going straight into my regular rotation.
The second track this week is A Dozen Roses by Braid. This track comes off of Braids 1998 album Frame and Canvas. This was the first time i ever heard this song, and the first time i heard of this band. AllMusic says that Braid is: ”Influential emo band from the days when the genre still had a connection to hardcore”, and i feel like that describes this song very well. You have this gritty sound, with changes of the tempo that you often find in emo songs, combined with the lyrics and the way the singer sings – this feels like a good representation of the emo wave.
The third and last track this week is I’ll Fight You by Open Mike Eagle. This track is a single that was released the 9th of August, 2022, so it’s right off the press! I’ve heard of Open Mike Eagle, but i have never really listened to his music before. I think this track is very easy to listen to, the voice of Open Mike Eagle is soothing and he’s very much on the beat. I loved the beat straight away, and as i kept on listening to the track a couple of more times, it just grew on me. And i very much enjoy how well the flow, beat and voice grows together to make this track a reality.
This week was a good week, i had a lot of good songs, and it was tough to choose tracks this week. And, only one song was in a language i don’t understand, i believe it is sung in Dutch.
I hope you give these tracks a listen, and i hope that you’ve gotten some good tracks on your Discover Weekly, this week!
Until next time, take care.
SLQT.
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