Six Months From Now ✈️
Six Months From Now ✈️
Shuffle Sundays #35 • Hiatus Kaiyote, Joy Oladokun, Finneas, Charlie Watts, REM, Rina Sawayama, Paola Franqui & more!
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This week we’re listening to an Australian band hard to put on any genre box, getting emotional with a beautiful live performance, paying homage to the drummer of one of the most important bands of all time, feeling inspired by some gorgeous photography, checking out some new music released this past week, and more. Enjoy the read!
🎧 Soundtrack: Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
💽 » Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
r&b / jazz / soul • 12 songs • 43 minutes
Jazz, R&B, and soul, are only a few labels you can try to fit Hiatus Kaiyote in, but this Australian band is just so much more than that. Despite having already 3 studio albums out, it was Mood Valiant (2021) that made me fall in love with the band, thanks to its first single Get Sun, which features Brazilian legend Arthur Verocai. Good luck with trying not to be impressed by the quality of their music and the originality of their creations. You will thank me later!
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
📺 » Joy Oladokun: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Thanks to Ciyadh Wells for pointing me towards the direction of the incredible Joy Oladokun. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter delivers an amazing performance for NPR‘S Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts series. NPR has been killing with this series, by the way. Go to their channel and check out some other ones, if you haven’t yet.
Watch the performance on YouTube
📺 » FINNEAS - A Concert Six Months From Now
You may know Finneas as Billie Eilish’s big brother and producer, but he also has his own solo career happening on the side. A Concert Six Months From Now is the second single from his upcoming sophomore album Optimist, out on October 15. The slow acoustic start turning into a big rock anthem (not too different from Billie’s Happier Than Ever) will make you wonder when will the siblings’ duo release a full rock album.
Watch the music video on YouTube
🔀 » Shuffle News:
• Rest In Peace Charlie Watts 🥁 I’ve always been more on the team Beatles, but “Sympathy For The Devil” and “Paint It, Black” are amongst some of my favorite songs of all time. If you want to dive deeper, here are 8 Songs That Prove Charlie Watts Was the Coolest Rolling Stone.
• REM is reissuing “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” in this gorgeous edition, to celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, to be released on October 29.
• The incredible Rina Sawayama is yet another artist to join Metallica’s upcoming The Metallica Blacklist, with a powerful rendition to the classic Enter Sandman, and it’s becoming impossible not to create the highest expectations. The whole project will be out on September 10.
⚡️ » Visual Inspiration
Paola Franqui, also known as Monaris, is a Puerto Rico-born, New Jersey-based Photographer whose gorgeous photographs a lot of times seem to be taken straight from a movie picture. 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:
Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? (Spotify | Apple)
Halsey - If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (Spotify | Apple)
Also, new singles from Lifehouse, Son Lux, Terno Rei, Helado Negro, 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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