After a few rather rock-focused editions, today’s Weekly5 dives into more subdued, spheric, floating, and dreamy tracks. From psychedelic indie to explorative post-rock and hauntingly beautiful melodies. It’s a selection that invites you to escape reality for a while.
❶ The White Album – Never Swim For Shore
Taken from their new album, Borders, The White Album urges you to explore your soul in Never Swim For Shore. The Danish trio’s song is a captivating composition: indie rock with a slight pinch of folk, somehow raw yet refined, rough edges cut through dreamy melodies. Just beautifully daring.
❷ Sunday,June – Motion Echoing
Psychedelic indie rock hailing from Geneva, Switzerland. Motion Echoing, the third single of Sunday,June’s upcoming debut album, carries you away on its floating, kaleidoscopic wings. The band strikes a perfect balance between galactic sounds and scales and grounded earthiness. It’s a journey.
❸ Dead Bandit – Pink
Teasing their new album, post-rock duo Dead Bandit’s Pink is a slow-burning, hypnotic single—pushed further by a steady, bass-heavy rhythm but allowing for straying and shining guitar explorations in its rumbling underbelly. There’s a notion of post-punk here as well.
❹ Namaka – Rain on My Heart
Rain on My Heart is a haunting, subdued track by Swiss duo Namaka, an examination of the darker, more unpleasant sides of yourself all too often pushed away. The sombre, even sinister tones, the never genuinely broken restraint of the composition are irresistible pulls into this track.
❺ Evgeny Grinko – Ticket to the Rome
Evgeny Grinko, a Russian pianist in exile after protesting the war in Ukraine, has just released his new album, Winter Moonlight. In Ticket to the Rome, Grinko demonstrates his sensitivity for intimate details and grand gestures as the composition builds up to dramatic, orchestral heights.
