Etikett: Rebecca & Fiona

Best of Release Radar – Week 34 – 2022.

Spotify features this thing called Release Radar, which consists of 30 songs that are newly released. The description of the playlist is, rougly translated from swedish to english, as follows: ”Listen to the newest music from artists that you follow, and also new singles that has been chosen for you. Updated every friday.”.

And i figured that this could be a fun part of the Laces Shoes & Funky Tunes website could be a consistent update. Every week, i pick my three favourite tracks from my Release Radar Playlist. I will however preface that many tracks on my Release Radar Playlist is remixes of older songs, that has been released a long time ago, and already has been remixed several times – but sometimes, these mixes are golden. An example of this would be that i this week have gotten a remix of Avicii’s track Malo, a track that was released back in 2011. So, it’s always rather fun to go through and see what’s been released lately. I assume that these remixes mostly connects to the artists that i follow, and the rest of the tracks on Release Radar can be whatever Spotify imagines that i would enjoy. I do want to preface this list with, that some weeks you get 10 absolute bangers that go into your regular rotation on Spotify, but some weeks it’s a struggle to even find one track that sticks out.

I will list the three songs that i pick, without any special order. If they’ve been picked, i enjoyed them.

The first track that i will mention on this weeks Best of Release Radar is the track called Let It Breathe by the rapper Joey Bada$$. This track was released as a single that features on his new album called 2000. I must admit that i have a somewhat of a soft spot for Joey, i’ve been listening to him for a long time and i think that most of his releases are very good. I was bumping his 2017 album ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ so much when it was released, and i still come back to it regularly.
I enjoy the sound of Let It Breathe, it’s hard to describe closer what it is, but there’s something in it that speaks to me. And i’m always fascinated by the flow and lyrics of Joey and his tracks.

The second track that i will mention on this weeks Best of Release Radar is a track called Before You and its by BCee, Charlotte Haining and Emba. This is some sort of electronic, possibly a liquid house track – let’s say that it is. I always find these kinds of songs hard to put in a genre of sorts. The track is rather soothing and it has this strong female lead voice, that a lot of songs in this genre has. However i feel like the singer, who i assume is Charlotte Haining, complements the track in a good way. I believe that Before You will go into my regular rotation of songs.

The last track that i will mention on this weeks Best of Release Radar is a track called ‘Til Dawn by Rebecca & Fiona, Chinaski. I’ve been a fan of Rebecca & Fiona for years, and i do enjoy the path and direction that they’re taking with their new music. I get the feeling that they’re not afraid to try something new and different from what they’ve done before. I have no prior knowledge of Chinaski, however i am going to dwell deeper into Chinaski and see what kinds of music has been produced by them before. ‘Til dawn gives me a feeling that i am driving in Miami in the mid 1980’s on your way to a cool party, and i enjoy it. It sounds nice and comforting. Like the world lies before your feet.

Honorable mention as the worst track that i got on this weeks Release Radar is You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween by Muse. This is, i don’t even really know how to describe it. Give it a listen. I feel like there are no redeeming qualities to this track. Which had me rather surprised as i do enjoy Muse a lot, and i’ve seen them live in concert once. However, this time they are completely off the rails

It seems as this was one of those weeks when the tracks on the playlist is rather weak. I had some trouble picking the three tracks that i enjoyed the most. I hope that you have an easier time picking out your favourites from this weeks Release Radar playlist.

Until next time, take care.
SLQT

Brightest Star Tonight – Daedelus.

In an effort to try and work around this whole feeling of music being lackluster, i’ve tried to listen to some new music. And on fridays Spotify updates their Release Radar-playlist. If you’re unaware of the Release Radar-playlist, in it’s essential its a playlist that automatically once a week updates with new releases from artist that you’ve previously listened to, or that Spotify choses for you! I try and listen to it atleast once every week, with some reservation.
One of the songs i got on the Release Radar-playlist this week was Brightest Star Tonight by Daedelus. I stumbled upon him a while ago when i was researching who made the original song, that is sampled in Accordion by Madlib and the now late MF DOOM in their duo project Madvillainy. And i learned that the sample is from the track Experience by Daedelus. I got impressed and i liked the sound, so i kept Daedelus in my rotation!

I fell for the sound of Brightest Star Tonight, it’s so soft and somewhat comforting, it almost resembles somekind of lo-fi, and it sounds much different from songs like Experience, albeit, be it, these songs do have many years between them.
Daedelus keeps on impressing me, and i recommend that you give him a listen, and his now song, Brightest Star Tonight that is out today (26/2-2021) on all platforms where you can experience music – i assume. Atleast, i’ve seen that it’s available on Spotify and Youtube.

Other honorable mentions from this weeks Release Radar:
This is love – demo – PJ Harvey
Another World – Kimchii Remix – Rebecca & Fiona, Kimchii.
TOXIC – Pussy Riot, Dorian Electra.
The Princess and the Clock – Kero Kero Bonito.

Also, i’ve been thinking about writing about books i read. Nothing’s decided and time will tell.

Until next time, take care.

SLQT.