There’s some writing I need to finish up today, so naturally I spent some time coming up with this totally unrelated list of seventeen favorite new or new-to-me songs I heard this past year:
YONAKA – Lose Our Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPVsA6Y2-c
SAM FENDER – Seventeen Going Under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAifgn2Cvo8
HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – The Walls Are Way Too Thin (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4_lX5bGssY
HOLLY HUMBERSTONE – Scarlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982QP-10GcE
(great growling guitar bit)
BELLY – Human Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9u4rp4afQ
(nostalgia factor 11)
GREEN DAY – Dreaming (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32az2CLr6bo
(Blondie song cover; he does one of “I Think We’re Alone Now” with his two sons, too)
BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG – Manic Monday (cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5qPCKxlw2M
(with Susannah Hoffs bouncing around like a teenager, and we all know damn well she’s no teenager)
AC/DC – Through The Mists Of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7-bIFDMSFA
HAZEL ENGLISH – Never Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgN_OFosKzY
(also check out "I'm fine" and "Waiting", among others)
SUNFLOWER BEAN – Moment in the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3FfnVQsWw
ALVVAYS – Hey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMMc_8xaXI
(also check out "Plimsoll Punks" and "Lollipop" from the same album)
WOLF ALICE – How Can I Make It OK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_TsuBIcGY
(love the slow build on this one)
TAYLOR SWIFT – All Too Well (10-minute version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxrwjOtIag&t=214s
(it’s weirdly good)
ADELE – Easy on Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY
(it’s just... well damn if it isn't just really easy on the ears)
MINT JULEP – Some Feel Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahcjPAoPwWQ
LORD HURON – Long Lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2JmQ-j0jlc
PHOEBE BRIDGERS – Steamroller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgpbiXMfrM
(“you’re the feeling I get when I’m feeling fine”)
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