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Find A Song that is a reassuring call to the self

iskwē - Exhale

The creation of meaningful art can only occur in moments of despair or triumph; there is no grey area. iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (short for waseskwan iskwew, meaning "blue sky woman") is an award-winning Indigenous creator whose catalogue drips of a spectrum of emotions and is powered by resilience. Following several seasons of high highs being met with low lows, the Cree Métis artist retreated south to Mexico and inward to her soul to paint a 10-song collection that illustrates the gut-wrenching roller coaster ride that has been her recent life. nīna, the opus of iskwē's rebirth, is the Cree translation for "me" and was chosen as the title of her fourth solo album as an ode to the profoundly autobiographical elements. The album is the sonic manifestation of the divine feminine explored through vignettes of love, passion, anger, betrayal, and loss.

The album's focus track, "Exhale," is a reassuring call to the self, as iskwē encourages herself: "Blue sky woman, it's time for you to breathe out." The tense yet shimmering song holds onto the vulnerability at iskwē’s core.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists singer/songwriter and hope/perseverance/(self)empowerment.

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Find A Song about someone giving you hope

Annika Jayne - Café Of The Lost Dreams (And The New Horizons)

Sometimes you just feel like nothing is going right. And then you meet a kind soul who gives you strength. Sometimes it's just a smile or a few kind words. It could be your best friend, an acquaintance, or a total stranger. When I was in such a situation, I imagined this place - Café Of The Lost Dreams (And The New Horizons), which had a special menu: A coffee of hope, a chocolate of faith, a biscuit of strength, and a cake of luck. And I imagined a woman - the owner of the place - who had this kind of mysterious aura, somewhere between a good witch, an angel or maybe a fairy. She doesn't offer a solution, but through her kindness, she helps me to go on and find my own way.

I wrote it in 2015 when I was feeling pretty lost. And I often find comfort in food, and it's just nice when someone offers you a coffee, a piece of chocolate, a biscuit or a piece of cake to make you feel better. And you gain hope and faith and strength, perhaps not so much from the food itself, but from the act of kindness. Of course, there's nothing wrong with being kind to yourself ;-)

Added to FAS Spotify playlists indie folk/country/americana and hope/perseverance/(self)empowerment.

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Find A Song about being doomed to repeat the past

Russian Baths - Bind

The band shares, "It's all a sinking ship that keeps pressing onward. The lyrics seem to touch on historical grievances, from witch hunts to trials at sea, all of them connected by misguided vengeance desperate to escape the past but doomed to repeat it." "

Added to FAS Spotify playlist dream/psych/shoegaze/ambient.

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Find A Song about the paradox and duality of love

Fauna Twin - With A Y

I approached this song with a very spontaneous vibe. I just wanted to go to core of what i truly felt when i started to write it. It's a song about unconditional love, it portraits its simplicity and its complex nature as well. The paradox and the duality we all feel when love births. It's the first glimpse of my future album which will be released this year. I see that song just like a soft interlude, it's no single, but it was a soft way to get my head out of the water, as i didn't release anything in a while.

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Find A Song about the impacts of experiencing sexual harassment

Allie Argent - Breathe In, Breathe Out

I hope it finds people who have experienced this too and reminds them that they are not alone.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist singer/songwriter.

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Find A Song for late night drives and walking home in the rain

Skymachine - Waves

Added to FAS Spotify playlist electronic/electro pop/synth pop.

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Find A Song asking the question who we are without our memories

Set Feux - Young and Lonely

“I wrote “Young and Lonely” during the first pandemic lockdown. My mother in law, who has Alzeimer's, had come to live with us and her memory loss was progressing quite rapidly. It was really difficult witnessing her memory decline and I began thinking about the impact memory has on our identity. The song explores the self that is left when our memory fades and poses the question, are we still the same person without our memories?”

Added to FAS Spotify playlist dream/psych/shoegaze/ambient.

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Find A Song about the insecurities at the beginning of a new love

Lioba - Paperthin

Die neue Single "Paperthin" von Lioba versetzt uns in die Anfangszeit des Verliebtseins, geprägt von der pulsierenden Euphorie und den tiefen Verunsicherungen, die damit einhergehen. Lioba beschreibt den Balanceakt zwischen dem Wunsch nach Nähe und der Angst vor Verletzlichkeit. Ihre Worte lassen die Zwiespältigkeit dieser Emotionen nachempfinden und regen dazu an, eigene Erinnerungen und Gedanken über vergangene Beziehungen zu reflektieren. Selbst in den frühen Phasen einer neuen Liebe, in denen wir uns zerbrechlich und manchmal hauchdünn wie Papier fühlen mögen, verbirgt sich hinter dieser vermeintlichen Schwäche eine unerwartete Stärke, die uns zurück ins Leben und zu uns selbst führen kann.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists singer/songwriter and relationships.

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Find A Song exploring the bittersweet clarity that the end of life offers us

Burr Island - Later

‘Later’ is a delicate song teeming with potent imagery. Its lyrics, sung in diaphanous harmony by the duo, tenderly explore the bittersweet clarity that the end of life offers us, meditating on what really matters in our short time on this earth. The words are carried by a gently picked guitar, moseying through the song like a small brook as an array of strings, courtesy of Jess Cox - sweet, ornate, and warbling - bathe the soft track in vivid emotion. 

Burr Island divulged: “‘Later, you will understand how truly good these times have been’ is faintly scrawled at the bottom corner of a large abstract piece of art hanging up in the building that Oskar used to live in. So faint, you could easily miss it. We’re glad Oskar didn’t, as those words unravelled into the song you hear today. ’Later’ is about being in the last moments of one’s life, when ‘twilight is paper thin’, and to look back at a life unlived.”

Oskar elaborated: “Around the same time I stumbled upon the hidden lyrics in the artwork, a friend of mine told me a personal story which I was incredibly struck by and that inspired us to write the rest of the song. When he was just eleven, his father had come home early from work, complaining of having chest pains. Hours later he had tragically died of a heart attack. What did he do in the last moments of his life? He started to confess. He confessed he had acted harshly and been cruel to people. I’ve often heard when one is at the end of their life, they can experience moments of true clarity, as if they are truly seeing for the first time. Hopefully this little song can be a reminder to us all to not wait until the moment of death to realise ‘how truly good these times have been’.”

Added to FAS Spotify playlist indie folk/country/americana.

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Find A Song that conveys the feeling of attachment

Past Life Romeo - Drew a Heart <3

The track combines various inspirations, resulting in a pop-electronic sound infused with elements of drum and bass, as well as a shoegaze vibe reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine. This track conveys the feeling of attachment, expressed through the imagery of intimacy, desire and shared experiences.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists indie pop and relationships.

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Find A Song about the end of a relationship

Present Paradox - The Crack

The single The Crack is part of the album A Trace To Keep Control that will be released on May 17, 2024.

The album takes the listener into the feeling of loss of control by addressing personal upheavals, the end of familiar closeness, the pressing climate crisis and the social shift to the right. The album is an artistic exploration in which the personal interweaves with the political and social in the lyrics. The musical landscape of "A Trace To Keep Control" skillfully combines elements of krautrock, post-punk and experimental rock into a dynamic mesh. Saxophones and clarinets add a jazzy touch to some of the tracks, giving the 49-minute album an extremely multi-faceted dimension.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists dream/psych/ambient/shoegaze and relationships.

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Find A Song about being a fragment of a larger, infinite reality

Massimo De Simone - Nel tutto

The textual concept arises from the perception of being a fragment of a larger, infinite reality, in which we are a subjectivity but at the same time an interconnected unit: the whole. The whole is the global entity to which we belong, from which we originated and to which we will reunite, to continue our existence in two perspectives, as a singularity and as an inseparable belonging. The whole thing is the search for our existence before life and beyond this life and takes us to other dimensional and spiritual planes, to be explored and discovered.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist electronic/electro pop/synth pop.

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Find A Song about a toxic relationship

Wild Rivers - Cave

„This song is about having no self-control in a relationship that you know isn’t good for you. You tell someone that you’re absolutely done, but everybody knows it isn’t true. You’re more than ready to abandon your self-respect and go back to the person“

Added to FAS Spotify playlists indie pop and relationships.

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Find A Song about our ability to change

Eddie Cohn - Wave Goodbye

This past year was a big year for me in terms of looking inward and trying to fine tune the way I live my life. I had a pretty big birthday and when you hit these markers in life, at least for me, it certainly causes me to turn inward and reflect on where I've been and where I want to go. I think about the people in my life or the habits I've created and I wondered which ones were good for my mind and which ones could maybe be eliminated. Can we change or are we innately stuck as being the same person for the rest of our lives? I'd like to think we always have the ability to change and that's sort of what this song is about. Are you the same person before and after these milestone events in our lives or can they inspire us to change the way we look at the world. There's always these big moments, whether good or bad, that come up in our lives and I think they can serve as good markers or excellent opportunities to help us create a better version of ourselves. It's not easy but I'm always looking for ways to fine tune or explore new avenues of creativity. This song explores this idea of saying goodbye to the people or the things that don't ultimately align with my values.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist alt rock.

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Find A Song about rekindling an old relationship

Failing Exploration - Permanence

A song about two lovers who find themselves again after 7 years apart and realize all of the ups and downs that their lives have gone through since the last time they saw each other.

The song is primarily a shoegaze and dream pop song it's also on our bandcamp page with all proceedings going to the UNFPA to provide relief to newborn babies and mothers in Gaza

Added to FAS Spotify playlists dream/psych/shoegaze/ambient and relationships.

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Find A Song telling a tale of rebirth

Moon and Aries - Firenight

Hypnotic percussive arpeggios introduce "Firenight" as the beat drops on a dreamy deep house groove. On the mic, Jordana evokes the rejuvenation of spring as she sings a tale of rebirth, rising triumphantly out of darkness.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists electronic/electro pop/synth pop and hope/perseverance/(self)empowerment.

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Find A Song über die Suche nach Verbundenheit

Karwendel - Hinter dem Feld

Added to FAS Spotify playlist indie folk/country/americana.

#music #music blog #indie music #alternative music #indie folk #Karwendel #Hinter dem Feld #Verbundenheit #indie #alternative #find a song