Today’s Weekly5 provide a mostly contemplative sound; a sombre and sometimes sad palette of tones. But also songs that embrace playfulness and strive for a captivating groove. Happy discovering!
Ensign Broderick
Cathedral Cities
Fight me but nothing is as haunting as a piano and a voice. Cathedral Cities reverberate in the darkness in a timeless beauty. A shiver-provoking ballad, leaving space for silence and reflection, and one that emphasises the storytelling of Jason Sniderman’s mysterious alter ego Ensign Broderick.
Kids Return
Teenage Dreams
A slight bias towards nostalgia, towards vintage colours, can’t be denied in Kids Return’s latest single, Teenage Dreams. But the duo is also displaying an exceptional feeling for groove and melody. This song turns and twists, but always remains an emotional intensity.
Adwaith
Heddiw / Yfory
Unapologetic hailing from Wales, female trio Adwaith weld post-punk, new wave, and alternative rock together. Heddiw / Yfory from their new double album Solas starts like the soundtrack to an apocalyptic Western, later contrasting crisp drums and guitars with their dreamy vocals.
Sakura
the end or the beginning idk
A playfulness but also fragility lives within the music of Katsuura Chow alias Sakura. The song the end or the beginning idk flows like silk over skin and for a moment, the world’s madness fades in the face of this atmospheric and light-flooded composition. It’s a dream.
Patrick Watson & Charlotte Cardin
Gordon in the Willows
Again, a piano and a voice. Composer and pianist Patrick Watson collaborated with singer-songwriter Charlotte Cardin to create the impressive Gordon in the Willows. It’s a composition that pierces through your body, washes over the soul and showers you with goosebumps.
