Songs You Should Hear - 09/11/2021

Hi!

Here's 21 great songs that you should try, or read my mini breakdown of each song and see which ones peak your interest!

Amanda Barbato - High Road

A pretty, minimalistic Pop / R&B track featuring melodic keys and chords, soft synth arpeggios, quiet bass, and low-key, snappy percussion backing up the restrained, soulful, melancholic vocals.

Lilli Unwin - Drifting

A quaint, wonderfully composed Indie Pop / Folk track with tasteful, layered vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, and an unfolding rhythm section that transitions the song and ends with rhythmic and instrumental changes.

KHLOË - Purgatory!

A punchy Power Pop / New Wave track with driving, hard-hitting percussion, steady bass, crunchy guitar, and airy synths backing up the catchy, dynamic, sing-along vocals that deliver fiery, self-assured, and determined lyrics.

Enna - Sad Halloween

A melancholic, mid-tempo Indie track with a dreamy atmosphere featuring jangly rhythm guitar, watery lead guitar, warm bass, and slow, shuffling percussion backing up the subdued, fittingly hypnotic vocals.

7Elevan - ANTISOCIAL

A Pop Punk track with true-to-the-style production featuring a clean, speedy two-note guitar-line, heavy, punchy, tom heavy percussion, power chord riffs, and a fittingly catchy and apathetic vocal delivery to match the lyrics.

Olivia Rafferty - Hurricane

An intimate but layered Indie Folk track with beautiful production led by breathy, captivating vocals backed with multiple, subtle acoustic and electric guitar layers, low bass, and airy, light, textured percussion that creates a dreamy, hazy quality.

Ellie Knight - Better Things

An Indie Pop / Synth Pop track with homely, fun production featuring playful melodies, bass and steady, driving percussion backing up the quirky backing vocals and upfront, endearing and characterful lead vocals.

Mango In Euphoria - Under the Sun

An Alternative / Dark Pop / R&B track with a tense progression featuring wide, looping wind instruments, crisp, downtempo percussion, and twangy bass backing up the intimate, soulful, dynamic, quietly intense vocals.

Lisa/Liza - Rose Pedals

A stripped-backed acoustic-led track with an intimate quaintness provided by an ear-grabbing, homely recording and charming, bewitching vocals that softly guide the song with an otherworldly presence.

Warm Human - Gimme A Reason

A great Electronic Pop track backed by crisp, clear percussion, low bass hits, and experimental elements such as textured, panning synths and stuttering, vocoded vocal effects that keep the song sonically fresh.

Tabi Kate - No More

A Pop track with soft, gently layered vocals backed up with piano, sustained ringing notes, atmospheric synths, and a steady, kick-led beat that pushes the song forward and develops to drive the song home.

Ha Vay - Fragile

A track with a unique Indie Pop / Blues / R&B fusion featuring an impactful, mid-tempo, head-bopping beat, airy strings, fuzzy guitar, soft keys, and tasteful additional flourishing synths backing up the floaty, wavering, soulful vocals.

Woves - 1.am

A Synth Pop track with nods towards Darkwave and gothic styles with retro-ish synth work, eerie piano, crisp electronic percussion, and electric guitar backing up the slightly sweet, melodic, ethereal leaning vocals.

Bad Bloom - Automatic

A Shoegaze track with fuzzy overdriven bending guitar lines and chords, prominent bass, and impactful, fill-packed percussion backing up the effective, simple vocal lines that rise above the noise and follow the flow nicely.

KALLEA - Better Without You

A short but effective, uplifting but also melancholic Pop track with a melodic, endearingly sweet, but also commanding vocal performance that leads the backing of piano, strings, percussion, bass, and muted guitar with ease.

Babe Club - That Feeling

A nicely produced Indie / Soft Rock track with piano chords, groovy bass, head-bopping rhythmic drumming, and a stand-out, melodic theremin style line backing up the emotional, compelling vocals.

Kerry Feeney - Keep You Around

A Pop track with Rock and Dance elements that results in punchy, steadily groovy verses and big guitar, piano, and string-backed choruses all led by the perfectly fitting vocals that are catchy, sweet, and powerful all at once.

Annie Elise - Again And Again

An Electronic / Indie Pop / R&B fusion featuring fuzzy, rhythmic, delayed guitar, a snappy electronic beat, and swirling synths led by the smooth, soulful, super catchy, relaxed vocals that glide over the instrumental wonderfully.

Catbells - Same as You

A melancholic, lightly jangly Indie track with memorable lead guitar and vocal melodies and driven by the warm bass, steady percussion, and light acoustic guitar and led by the soft, restrained, endearing vocals.

Madison Deaver - C U in Hell

A dramatically arranged Emo / Pop track with punchy Trap influenced percussion, heavily distorted and edited guitar, and deep bass backing the powerful, dynamic, soaring vocals that build and release throughout.

Grace Gardner - Radio Silence

A dreamy Indie Rock / Pop track with light, buzzing synths, rhythmic, chiming, delayed guitar, atmospheric, reverbed layers, and rhythmic percussion backing up the understated, melancholic, and emotional vocals.