new tunes tuesday!

Hey, let's get back to the beats! shoots self Spotify has a featured playlist called "Your Summer Rewind", showing me what I was listening to last summer, so here are some great finds that I fell for last year.

Artist: Foxes
Album/Song to Try: Glorious is the album you want
Style: beats that stay with you, lyrics that inspire fanfiction, in a catchy & addictive package
Thoughts: Foxes is electro-pop, but with a less-cliche, less-love-centric bent than most; it's a bit more floaty, dream-like, mysterious. She ranges from Talking With Ghosts, a beautiful chiller, to Youth or Night Owls Early Birds which are songs to sing along to and dance. Each song sort of comes in and sits with you. Her second album, All I Need, steered itself too far towards the pop side for me, and seems to consist mostly of love songs and trite lyrics, which I'm not a fan of - but you might be. Start with Glorious, though, and go ahead and listen to "Count The Saints" for an idea of what inspired an entire (planned) fanfiction.

Artist: HAIM
Album/Song to Try: Days Are Gone, "The Wire" and "My Song 5"; Something To Tell You, "Want You Back"
Style: 70s rock met 80s pop met 90s R&B and had a party in 3-part harmony
Thoughts: HAIM is 3 sisters and a drummer, which by itself I think is pretty awesome! overall I would call it a sort of soft-rock, but there's a bit of country, a bit electro, a bit of folk; Spotify's description calls out both Fleetwood Mac and Destiny's Child. It's catchy, it's well executed, and it's extremely good.

Drop me anything in the comments and I'll add it to my playlist! Also -- anyone looking for recs for something specific (blues, classic rock, IDK), let me know and I'll see what I can do :3