Autumn is picking up full speed with another wave of ye old virus gaining momentum too. Time to socially distance yourself in style and pop in the best new music. Vienna’s Liz Metta here offers a timely banger in Dreaming, her latest single. The track has a great late-summer tempo and melody, and quite effortlessly floats on lush riffs and careful drums, pulled by her dreamy vocals.
Dreaming is her second single after June’s Vision. Both tracks are out on her own label Ursus Records, with an EP said to be in the making for release in the near future. So, tuck yourself in, pour a glass, and hit play. You can also find this track, along with other fine picks by Team Poule on the regularly updated Poule d’Or Spotify playlist over at www.pouledor.com/spotify.
Photo credit go to Thomas Steineder and him only.
2020 could well be the year of refocusing on the stuff that matters, the things that really make you tickle. S.F. Johnson from Newcastle upon Tyne, here lounging on the Marunouchi Line, recently relocated to Tokyo and comes sliding over with this bad boy of a soft rock banger. Woman comes flying in wrapped in warm riffs and drums, held together nicely by reassuring vocals with that trademark pinch of reverb – and as a Poule d’Or exclusive.
The track forms part of an upcoming EP titled Songs from an Empty Orchestra – with a hat-tip to Japanese culture. The EP will be preluded by two more singles, so look out for that. And as live dates are a bit scarce this year, his are limited to a secret gig at lovely Substore in Koenji. Meanwhile, Woman is attached below and also part of our regularly updated Spotify playlist Journal, over at www.pouledor.com/spotify.
Man, this year is really trying to get to you isn’t it? Luckily the stream of good music never ebbs and exhibit A in the struggle to stay positive and stay on the right side of history here comes floating in by way of Toro de Oro out of Mexico City of all places, looking for nothing but love.
Paco el Pez here is the groups latest piece and comes in preparation of their new and yet untitled EP. The team has been together for a debut album that came out last year. They strike a great tone and find neat balance between indie pop and the more dreamy ends of the spectrum, all eloquently told in Spanish.
Look out for their EP and in the meantime catch Paco el Pez as part of the ever updated Poule d’Or Journal, our little playlist over at Spotify: www.pouledor.com/spotify.
Remember back in March, when everybody started counting the days? How many masks can one possibly need? Those were the days eh. Dorvin Borman here out of Los Angeles has fared quite well since then it seems, putting out one sweet song after another, dreamy banger after dreamy banger. Feel You, Feel Me is his latest and a timely reminder of looking left and right, and focusing on other people’s problems for once, to solve your own in the end. Break the empire.
Feel Me, Feel You is a lovely hazy piece of recording, just in time for the September days of the year when light and leaves turn orange and everything slows down a bit. The track is only one of the selected songs you can find on our weekly curated playlist Poule d’Or Journal over at the Spotify www.pouledor.com/spotify.
Do you ever ask yourself Why? What is everybody doing? Not in a kind of religious, quest for purpose type of way. But more in a What is everybody doing type? Minding their own businesses. Well, can’t help you there, but Chicago’s Oddysseys here slam one of the hottest serves of the year home in Body Heat, their latest single. The group showcases their full talent and repertoire on this brilliant piece of recording, with a mad sense for when to change pace, and when to change direction and find you wrong footed.
The quartet is busy working on a full length album, that, at this quality, should rank right up there in the post-punk post-quarantine top-10s of this awkward year that is 2020. So, maybe this is it, and this is the Why. In the meantime, find Body Heat, alongside other hot new tracks in our weekly updated Spotify playlist Poule d’Or Journal, over at www.pouledor.com/spotify.
Nicely layered electronic vibes coming in by way of KASKE, out of the liberal hotbed that is Antwerp, Belgium. Break here is a pure groover of a track, stacking up what seem to be field recordings alongside clean cut bpms. Altogether modern and precise and yet with a nice distinct and direct vintage analog feel to it, beautiful.
Further info is sparse, but it’s safe to say that he is going places. Once this pandemic is done and dealt with. In the meantime, check his 2018 EP Oyster, and find this track on Poule d’Or Journal, the Spotify playlist with nothing but the latest musings straight from the headquarters.
Photo credits go to the talented Maxime Minsen.
