Stop Making This Hurt 💔
Shuffle Sundays #61 • Bonobo, Bleachers, Dave Grohl, Turning Red, Social Media, Lou Escobar, and more!
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💽 » Bonobo - Fragments
electronic • 12 songs • 51 minutes
Simon Green, aka Bonobo, has been releasing music for more than two decades, starting out in the trip-hop scene. I discovered and got into his music in recent years when he started exploring other paths and introducing more acoustic elements into his electronic signature music.
In Fragments, Green pretty much continues what he started in 2017’s Migration, creating a both diverse and cohesive album, mixing instrumental tracks with other tunes that feature guest vocalists, like the incredible Tides, featuring vocals from Jamila Woods, which remains as one of my favorites in the whole album.
If you enjoyed the Focus Playlist I shared a while ago, I have no doubt you’ll enjoy Fragments back to back, as well as the rest of Bonobo’s discography.
📺 » Bleachers - Stop Making This Hurt
Lead by songwriter and producer Jack Antonoff — which you may know from producing successful albums for Taylor Swift, Lorde, Florence + The Machine, and many more — Bleachers is an indie-pop band that borrows their musicality from the 80s and 90s. With three albums in their baggage, it was their latest Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night (2021) that really caught my attention, and mainly because of the catchy great single Stop Making This Hurt.
📚 » The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
A couple of issues ago I mentioned how much I enjoy reading musician/artists biographies, so after a long time without reading any, I was excited to dive into Dave Grohl’s memoir ‘The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music’.
In a somewhat linear timeline (that occasionally jumps back and forth), Grohl narrates his musical adventures from attending his first concert as a teenager in Chicago to forming his own first punk-rock bands, to joining the band Scream, becoming the drummer of Nirvana, forming and leading his own band Foo Fighters, and many other music projects and collaborations over the years. It’s an easy and very entertaining read, especially if you are familiar with his music and like his persona.
One of the many things I enjoyed learning about in the book, was the fact that 1999’s There’s Nothing Left to Lose is considered by Grohl the best album ever made by the Foo Fighters, something I had no idea until then. After reading that I immediately listened to the album back to back and it hit completely different.
When I finished up the book, I immediately started thinking about other similar books I’ve enjoyed over the years, including Anthony Kiedis‘ Scar Tissue, and Travis Barker’s Can I Say. If you have any recommendations of what should I read next, please reply to this email or leave them in the comment section.
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🧩 » Random Bits
🎬 • Almost 30 years since their first full-length film, it’s incredible how Pixar continues to maintain the level of their work so high. Turning Red, their latest one, is another incredible masterpiece that may look silly on a surface level, but that goes so deep into more dense and complicated themes like Pixar does best;
🧑🏻💻 • When it comes to social media, you may think you’re the addict, but don’t forget that you’re also actually the dealer;
🎨 • And speaking of social media, have you noticed how every type of art became “content” these days?
⚡️ Visual Inspiration
Lou Escobar is a Paris-based Photographer specializing in fashion with a very cinematic and stylized identity to her work. Check out her website or Instagram for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
this week’s new albums I'm curious to check out
Also, new singles from Jenny Kern, Arcade Fire, Céu, King Princess, Muse, Thom Yorke, Andrew Bird, and many more. If you’re curious to hear some of these songs and more, make sure to follow my 2022 playlist on Spotify, updated weekly with new releases:
I’m a Notion -wanna be- user. What’s your favorite introduction/inspiration to get started? Also-- I enjoyed the YouTube video... some very interesting points... ie. creating in seasons and creating a large work. Cool stuff. Thanks! H
Motomami is 🔥