WhatsOn editor Adam Humphries, brings some of the top music selection of the week. Listen and groove to the beats of the music for killing the Monday blues. Here is the list to make you groove to the tunes.
Apollo Records – Jackson Mico Milas drops intimate & organic ‘White Noise’!
From British-Australian singer Jackson Mico Milas here’s his next musical offering with White Noise. It’s an ambient, indie/acoustic fusion which is carefully and delicately put together. Musically, this is in a similar vein to James Blake and Groove Amada, with a bit of James Morrison thrown in. Noise has an eerily soothing and haunting feel to it and Jackson puts his heart on his sleeve without saying that much.
It’s easy to pass this off as your ‘yet another love/break up song’ yet when you listen closely to the words it’s more about reaching out to that someone and encouraging them to reaching out to you. It’s about showing them the ‘calm in the storm’
“In the winter sky/there’s a light in your eyes”
Tame Imala – Lost In Yesterday
By the sensational multi talented music maestro from down under. Lost is a easy listening number fusion of rock and dance sounds with a carefully constructed electronic dah-dah-dah dah dah, dah-dah-dah dah dah beat. Has an almost tribal type feel to it. The lyrics are cleverly thought out example of songwriting, as subject matter wise it’s about looking back at a time in your life that was no doubt a bad one. As the lyrics continue it describes how over time the memories become subject to a form of Chinese whispers and become distorted leaving memory changed into something it isn’t
“Eventually terrible memories turn into great ones”
Then eventually you remember why the memory was a bad one in the first place.
Adele – Easy on Me
From her latest groundbreaking album. Overall the album itself is, as Adele puts it, her way of trying to explain the break up between her partner to him. Trying to help him understand why his parents are longer together. As always Adele wears her heart on her sleeve and pours every emotion she has into her songs. With Easy on Me that’s exactly what she’s asking of her son, to be easy on her
“There ain’t no room for things to change
When we are both so deeply stuck in our way”
She knows that it’ll affect her son and all she asks for is that he doesn’t be angry with her but also understand her feelings. It’s a very ‘parent-to-child’ song and they’re not always as easy as you think to write
Grimes + Hana – We Appreciate Power
Now I’ve heard this song quite a few times now and no matter how bonkers it seems it has a somewhat eerie feel to it in that what’s been told is slowly but surely actually happening the more forwards we go
“People like to say that we’re insane
But AI will reward us when it reigns”
Subject matter wise Power is about the union between man and artificial intelligence. However, because the word capitulate is used it takes a slightly sinister turn. Capitulate means Surrender, so from that point in it becomes a precursor to an almost Matrix type of place that Hana and Grimes sing about
