Janosch Troehler
Editor
Edition #106
Today, we recommend the new songs by Seafood Sam, Ride, Soft Loft, Luxie, and Chauffeur et Parlak.
If you have been here for a while, you know that hip-hop and rap is mostly not down my alley. But every once in a while, an artist captures my attention. Today, it is Californian artist Seafood Sam with his exceptional new single.
Furthermore, you can enjoy the latest track by Ride, a lucid indie-rock composition with some wave feeling. Or celebrate vulnerability with Soft Loft, dance to the psychedelic sound of Chauffeur et Parlak, or dive into an intruiging juxtaposition by Luxie.
Seafood Sam – Can't Take the Hood to Heaven
Full of lush oldschool West Coast vibes, Can't Take the Hood to Heaven by Long Beach hero Seafood Sam slowly builds up, cracks open hardened chests with its tender soul, and reaches unknown heights with its lavish composition. This track is eclectic, dramatic, playful, and cinematic beyond words.
Ride – Last Frontier
Interplay, the seventh studio album of Ride will be out on 29th March. With Last Fronier, we grab a first glimpse—and it is a promising one. Blending classic indie rock songwriting with a kaleidoscopic sound but especially a particular melancholic vibe, the single channels acts like New Order.
Soft Loft – Late
The fragility and emotional weight of Late mirrors the song's message: An hommage to the beauty of human failure, the chaotic nature of life, and embracing it all with love. Soft Loft's warm embrace is the last ambassador of Switzerland's promising indie-upstarts debut album The Party And The Mess.
Luxie – U&ME
French artist Luxie, inspired by 60s rock and 70s folk, teleports nostalgia into a futuristic outfit. In U&ME, her vocal performance has a distinct folky silhouette, reminiscent of acts like Lola Marsh. However, Luxie's singing is accompanied by an intruiging drum and bass rhythm—a combination that works perfectly.
Chauffeuer et Parlak – The Napoli Run
Zurich's instrumental duo Chauffeur et Parlak present their first single of the upcoming sophomore album. The Napoli Run sounds as hot as Italia's south and throws in some oriental notes to spice things up. The whole vibe ends up somewhere between an exotic outerspace experience and earthy garage groove.
You can listen to today's curation on selected streaming services:
Spotify • Apple Music • YouTube Music • Bandcamp
Exclusive Premiere: Jenobi Tackles Female Appearance Standards in «Makeup»
Swedish artist Jenobi's new single reflects on the standards of female beauty. Negative White hosts the exclusive video premiere.
What is considered natural? How is female beauty defined by society? These are only exemplary questions within the larger theme that Jenobi's new single Makeup is tackling.
Swedish artist Jenny Apelmo Mattsson played bass for the Hamburg-based folk band Torpus & The Art Directors but also worked on her own ideas. In 2020, her alias Jenobi was born, an outlet for self-reliant and uncompromising creativity.
Makeup, the second single from her upcoming album Irregularity, celebrates its premiere today with Negative White:
Makeup's composition is simple, with a reduced backdrop for the almost whispered, spoken-wordy lyrics to take centre stage. Makeup is not beating around the bush with its message:
Hey, how are you doing?
You look a little tired babe
Honey, how is it hanging?
Your cheeks look a little pale
The lyrics are, and that is hardly a surprise, far from some fictional event. It refers to an experience Jenobi had in a supermarket. «The pretty employee at the checkout asked me how I was doing because I looked so tired. Of course I wasn't tired, I just didn't have any make-up on. I wrote the lyrics for the song at home that day.»
The single acts as an answer to this and similar comments so many women have to hear every day:
Didn’t put my makeup on
I’m not tired, I’m just busy
Don't you think that I look pretty
With some rings below my eyes?
And now for those men who think: «Maybe the cashier just wanted to be nice.» Ask yourself: When was the last time a stranger asked you if you were okay because of your body's appearance? The answer is most likey: never. And there you have the issue.
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Edition #105
Today, we recommend the new songs by Porcelain Id, Schmack, sad dad, One Sentence. Supervisor, and Valentino Vivace.
In today's Weekly5, we present you absolutely exceptional works of sonic craftsmanship: From the experimental yet captivating compositions by Porcelain Id and Schmack to the atmospheric daydreams of One Sentence. Supervisor and sad dad. And if you want to dance, swirl your hips to Valentino Vivace.
Porcelain Id – Brilliant (feat. Emma)
With Bibi:1, Hubert Tuyishime, aka Porcelain id, an exceptional debut album, effortlessly blending styles and sounds to a collage that sounds as captivating as experimental. Brilliant, a collaboration with singer Emma, shines especially bright.
The song by the nonbinary Rwandan artist who works in Belgium sounds as if The Libertines landed in a smokey jazz club, stomping through wild night, arm-in-arm with the everpresent acoustic guitar and the roaring saxophone. Otherwordly!
Schmack – The Darkness (feat. Mile)
With their single Turner, Austrian experimental jazz ensemble Schmack already part of Weekly5 in 2022. Now, they are about to release their next album, In Love, and teased it with its opener The Darkness, a collaboration with Mile from rap group Sharktank.
The track is short, but, man, it is intense. Schmack's composition is hyperactive, flickering like warning lights, and Mile's flow matches perfectly to their unconventional beat foundation.
sad dad – morro bay
Hailing from the Swedish archipelago, sad dad create melancholic indie-rock tunes. The newcomers have been unleashing a constant stream of new singles since last year—with morro bay being the latest one.
The song draws from the best of dreamy indie-rock, even taps into the realms of shoegaze and post-punk, to create a hazyand escapist sound—inviting the listener to leave behind the mondane reality of daily life.
One Sentence. Supervisor – ((mush))
Switzerland's One Sentence. Supervisor sneak out of the shadows with their signature doom-and-gloom indie-rock compositions—pulling off again the juxtaposition of eerie sounds and evocative melodies.
Their latest single, called ((mush)), shoegazes towards shimmering highlights, stretches itself to borderline psychedelic lenghts, and indulges in a handcrafted dreamy trance.
Valentino Vivace – Insieme
Valentino Vivace—this man knows how to groove. Insieme, a previously exclusively available on the vinyl edition of his debut album, Meteoriti, gets now its time in the flickering italo disco lights.
The Swiss artist's track is like the sonic reincarnation of a warm VHS tape glow, the 80s brusts out of every note, and the bassline calls for another round of Negroni Sbagliato. Let's move!
You can listen to today's curation on selected streaming services:
Spotify • Apple Music • YouTube Music • Bandcamp
