Victim Of A Modern Age 📡
Victim Of A Modern Age 📡
Shuffle Sundays #55 • Modern Error, COIN, The Maine, Ira Glass, Rishi Draws, Twenty One Pilots, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Tira do Papel, and more.
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🤯 I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Shuffle Sundays crossed 400 (!!!) subscribers this past week, after being kindly featured in the inspiring newsletter (in Portuguese) Tira do Papel, by fellow creator Tiago. Go show him some love!
[🇧🇷] pra todos os Brasileiros que descrobriram meu trabalho essa semana e resolveram começar a seguir essa newsletter, muito obrigado e muito bemvindo! Espero que curtam o conteúdo daqui pra frente. Apesar do texto ser sempre em inglês, a comunicação em pt está sempre aberta nos comentários ou por email.
🎧 Soundtrack: Kamasi Washington - The Garden Path
💽 » Modern Error - Victim Of A Modern Age
alternative rock, metal • 14 songs • 49 minutes
Modern Error was a completely new band to me when I discovered them just a week before the release of their new album Victim Of A Modern Age, and I am so glad I decided to give it a try! My initial reaction, based on listening to one track, was that it was going to be yet another generic metalcore act like hundreds of others out there, but it takes just one full listen to the whole album to realize that they're way beyond that.
Victim Of A Modern Age is a delicious blend of modern rock with touches of 2000s emo, alternative rock, and even some industrial, that makes it a truly powerful journey when experienced back to back. And if you pay attention to the lyrics, the experience expands even further, as the content is full of philosophical and existentialistic topics across the 14 songs. And if all of that wasn’t enough, lots of the tracks already have music videos (like this one) tied up in a coherent visual identity that you don’t see very often.
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube
📺 » COIN - Cutie
Speaking of deliciousness, thanks to Arjun’s latest issue of 3 by 7, I can’t stop listening to COIN’s new single Cutie, an incredibly catchy tune that got me curious to visit some of their previous music, which I wasn’t very familiar with.
Watch the video on YouTube
📺 » The Maine - Loved You A Little
The Maine is a band that has been putting music out there for 15 years and, although they have been always on my radar, none of their music really stuck with me until last year’s XOXO: From Love & Anxiety In Real Time, even though a lot of their “OG” fans didn’t think the album was that good, to say the least. Now they’re back with a brand new single called Loved You A Little, which features emo gods Taking Back Sunday and singer Charlotte Sands. A nostalgic pop-punk tune with a well-executed music video!
Watch the video on YouTube
🧩 » Random Bits
👨🏻🎨 • Revisited this speech from more than 10 years ago by Ira Glass on the creative process, and it continues as relevant as ever;
🎨 • I’ve been curious to try my hands at Procreate for a long time now, and this video by the awesome channel Rishi Draws finally convinced me to give it a try;
🔥 • Twenty One Pilots’ recent album Scaled and Icy was very underwhelming, but I’ve been really enjoying the way they’ve been mixing their old and new style at the live performances, like this one and this one.
⚡️ » Visual Inspiration
Stephen Wong Chun Hei is a Hong Kong-based artist whose paintings are focused on natural landscape scenery, inspired by the concept of the “Dream Journey” in Chinese landscape painting, in which a person experiences the feeling of travel by looking at a landscape painting from the comfort of their own home. Check out his website for more. Here are some favorites:
🎶 » New Music
This week’s new albums I'm particularly interested in checking out:
Animal Collective - Time Skiffs (Spotify | Apple Music)
Bastille - Give Me The Future (Spotify | Apple Music)
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There (Spotify | Apple Music)
Gilsons - Pra Gente Acordar (Spotify | Apple Music)
Hippo Campus - LP3 (Spotify | Apple Music)
K.Flay - Inside Voices / Outside Voices (Spotify | Apple Music)
Korn - Requiem (Spotify | Apple Music)
Mitski - Laurel Hell (Spotify | Apple Music)
Also, new singles from Rosalía, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flume, Japanese Breakfast, 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:
Congrats on 400! That Procreate video was incredible! It was so well done. I immediately want to drop everything that I’m doing and start learning everything that Rishi Draws knows. :)
Congrats on crossing the 400 subscribers mark and exposing me to many creative talented people that are out there. I never would have discovered them on my own. Thankyou.