An Awesome Wave 🌊
An Awesome Wave 🌊
Shuffle Sundays #40 • Erika de Casier, Fleet Foxes, half•alive, David Bowie, Nirvana, Ingrid Weyland, & more!
Hello and welcome to Shuffle Sundays, a weekly newsletter with music recommendations to help you find your next obsession.
This week we’re listening to a Portuguese R&B singer, watching beautiful music videos featuring incredible stop-motion animation and contemporary dance, feeling inspired by provocative landscape Photography, checking out some new music released this past week and more. Enjoy the read!
🎧 Soundtrack: alt-J - An Awesome Wave
💽 » Erika de Casier - Sensational
r&b, pop, soul • 13 songs • 42 minutes
Portuguese-born, Denmark-based Erica de Casier took me by surprise with her recently released sophomore album Sensational (2021). It’s a perfect blend of nostalgic 90s R&B with contemporary electronic production. At the same time that it will make you think you’ve heard it before, it will still sound extremely fresh and fun. The album, largely written and produced during 2020’s lockdown, surrounds the majority of its themes on single women and dating, borrowing a lot from de Casier’s own experiences, which helps to make the lyrical content both personal and easily relatable at the same time. If you like (and miss) artists like TLC and Destiny’s Child, I’m pretty sure you’ll have a great time listening to Sensational.
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
📺 » Fleet Foxes - Featherweight
Featherweight is the latest single from Fleet Foxes’ Shore to become a single and get an incredibly beautiful music video. Directed by Sean Pecknold, (Foxes‘ own) Robin Pecknold’s brother, the video consists of a masterful work of stop-motion, done by Eileen Kohlhepp, who worked on Charlie Kaufman’s 2015 incredible Anomalisa. A true work of art where every paused frame could easily be hanged up on the wall.
Watch the video on YouTube
📺 » half·alive - Make of It
The Americans of half•alive continue to impress me with the use of contemporary dance in their (always great) music videos, as well and at their live performances. In their own words, “Make of It” is a story in which worlds not only interconnect but bleed into one another in a messy display of beautiful-humanity“. Pay attention to this name, while they continue to be a relatively under-the-radar band!
Watch the video on YouTube
🔀 » Shuffle News
• 20 years after the original attempted release, David Bowie’s unreleased album Toy is finally getting an official release date for November 26th. The album is a mix of new and re-recorded Bowie songs from 1964-71.
• Nirvana’s seminal album Nevermind is getting a new 30th-anniversary reissue. Besides a standard edition that will include a few bonus tracks, fans will also be contemplated with a super-deluxe version, featuring 8 (!!!) LPs, which will include audio from four concerts, besides the remastered version of the original LP.
⚡️ » Visual Inspiration
Ingrid Weyland is a Photographer from Buenos Aires who focuses on evocative landscapes and the fragility of the natural environment. Check out her website or Instagram for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
This week’s new albums I'm particularly interested in checking out:
Also, new singles from Shilpa Ananth, Silva, Years & Years, Biffy Clyro, and many more. If you’re curious to hear some of these songs and more, make sure to follow my 2021 playlist on Spotify, updated weekly with new releases:
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