This week, WhatsOn music editor Adam Humphries brings you the top songs to listen to this week. Don’t forget to add them to your playlist!
The Lickerish Quartet – New Days
Our much beloved, and ever so slightly (if bizarrely) imaginative band are back with a new number, New Days, and judging by the sound of things they haven’t lost any of that charm of theirs’s. Days, when you listen closely to the lyrics, are about being in the now whilst heading into what’s to come but reminiscing about days past.
“The irony’s not lost this time guess your number’s changed/that familiar feeling that I thought I left behind”
Lickerish Quartet clearly hasn’t lost any of their creative genius which clearly pours through in this song, even the accompanying video is somewhat outside the box
Barzin – It’s Never Too Late to Lose Your Life
Canadian singer-songwriter and producer, Barzin, is back with a new album called Voyeurs in the Dark and one of the tracks from it is this little intriguing gem called, It’s Never Too Late to Lose Your Life, and in all fairness, it does show a completely new side to his musical genius. The song is a bit like experimentation with the somber and darker areas of mentality. The lyrics are cleverly put together and really set the tone for the song.
“Give me love Give me God, I’ll throw my life away/gonna watch, in the dark, all the pretty girls in this place
The accompanying video is an interesting one as it mixes abstract with female sexual objectification and male masculinity.
Terry Emm – Wish You Were Here
British singer-songwriter and musician has released his latest musical offering, and it’s got a strong hint of Americana sound in it. Wish You Were Here is a reworking of his single, here, from his 2012 album, Petals Fallen Off the Sun. Overall the song sounds like a love letter and the way in which the lyrics are done it’s like it’s written from the perspective of someone reminiscing about a past love along with the feelings it brought them.
“Time has taken all it can out of me/now I’m right back where I began”
Not actually a bad song and can definitely see this being used as a soundtrack in a film, it’s got that feel to it.