[SONG OF THE DAY] LP Giobbi - "Meet Again (feat. Little Boots)"

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Y’all know how much love I have in my heart for LP Giobbi. In addition to her consistently dropping back to back bangers, it’s been so inspiring to watch how her FEMMEHOUSE initiative has really taken off. I’m constantly seeing new sessions coming up to help empower women with the tools to be their very own badass.

Today we’ve been blessed with a new track, a piano house #posiparty anthem titled “Meet Again”. The track itself came together pre-covid while LP was riding a train in Vienna on the way to a show last winter. Then while in lockdown, she sent it over to Little Boots to get her creative take. As timing would have it, Little Boots had just recently heard Queen Elizabeth II’s speech where she implored the nation to keep hope alive during these dark times we’re living in, reassuring everyone that, “We will meet again”. The rest, as they say, is history. “It’s such a simple line, but I felt pulled to share it as a meaningful message across the world to everyone feeling lonely, disconnected or sad,” shares Little Boots. 

LP has also shared an accompanying video for the song, featuring a montage of simpler times from her childhood. There are a lot of adorable *BB Giobi* moments in the montage, a lot showcasing just how much she was raised around music (but you already knew that because you read my interview with her 😘).

If Mark Ronson’s recent cover of Richard & Linda Thompson’s 1974 classic, “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” (as seen on diSKOAver weekly) was hitting you right in the Yearning For The Dance Floor Feels™, “Meet Again” is the [for now] bedroom dance party banger you need to get you to the other side of this pandemic. It definitely has me daydreaming of my next outing with LP Giobbi filling the floor with her selects and originals. That last show at Elsewhere dancing and hugging with TC from Crush Club and LEFTI was def one for the books.

Speaking of bedroom dance parties. LP Giobbi is keeping busy on Twitch during the week, spinning hella house a whopping five days a week. Schedule for all of her upcoming livestreams are below in addition to tonight’s FEMMEHOUSE session.

LP GIOBBI’S WEEKLY SCHEDULE ON TWITCH

Wednesday 1:30 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s Club Set
Thursday 1:30 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s World House Party
Friday 1:30 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s Techno & Coffee House Party
Friday 9 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s Chicago House Party
Saturday 1:30 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s Piano House Party
Sunday 1:30 PM EST: LP Giobbi’s Gospel House Party

OTHER UPCOMING LP GIOBBI LIVESTREAMS

July 11th: LP Giobbi @ Rave Family Block Party - Femme House Stage [TICKETS].

July 11th + July 12th: LP Giobbi @ Retrospektfest (exact time TBD)

[SONG OF THE DAY] Akurei - "SUCKER"

photo credit: Maxwell Byrne

You should get well acquainted with Aussie bb Akurei. At first he was a name I caught in passing on “DOWN” from BAYNK’s latest EP, A STUDY IN MOVEMENT, along with Golden Vessel who y’all got a taste of yesterday if you bumped this week’s diSKOAver weekly. Recently he released his latest EP, SEROTONIN, which also happens to be the debut release on the recently launched indie label sumoclic, which is co-owned/operated by Akurei & Golden Vessel.

The first of three EPs that Akurei plans on releasing in 2020, SEROTONIN follows his September EP, which was released near the end of last year. “I wanted to share a few bite sized projects, and the three track format was an exciting idea to me,” he explains. Almost immediately after releasing September he began working on new material, but nothing really starting coming together until February when he went on a writing trip with two of his good friends, Golden Vessel and Emerson Leif.

Why yes, I’ve wandered myself into another nice little collective of talented individuals down under. Glad you noticed that, too. 😘

These guys are keeping busy and there’s already more to share since this EP dropped that is forthcoming, but given how quickly I’ve taken to Akurei and his tender unassuming voice, I just wanted to take a second to make sure he had at least one moment of your full and undivided attention. Although I thoroughly love the whole EP, “SUCKER” has really come to be my favorite.

Enjoy the SEROTONIN EP below. 💖

Akurei · SEROTONIN

[SONG OF THE DAY] Terrell Hines - "Wu Dirt"

Happy to report that Terrell Hines is keeping busy in quarantine. Which is wonderful, because 2019 was really him putting his best foot forward. He released his debut EP, St. Marks Rd., which saw the track “Get Up” get featured in the 2019 Apple keynote. He also had a lovely on Beck’s Hyperspace, which we know I’m a little biased on, but really I thought it was a nice pairing for what Beck was going for.

Now he’s been gearing up for the release of his forthcoming mixtape, Portal One: The Mixtape, which is out on August 7th courtesy of Capitol. He’s been cranking tracks leading up to the official release, including a Y2K Remix of “Get Up” (in addition to a version of the original featuring a verse from Vince Staples), “St. Marks Rd.”, “Promise”, and most recently, “Wu Dirt”, which also has the accompanying video below. Hines is a hologram after my own heart, with the concepts driving his music being in the postmodern + post-apocalyptic. A sampling of some of my favorite lyrics from, “Wu Dirt”, to show you what I mean:

Some type of way we got caught in a hyperlooper
I portal drifted all the way to the future
I feel like we in a high-speed computer
Unlock myself inside my crazy dreams
Now I’m roaming all through these metallic streams
Propaganda yea that’s the new dopamine
Damn I think I like postmodernity

When he’s not shooting his own music videos courtesy of a green screen, you can find him devouring books on linguistics, synesthesia, or evolutionary psychology in his downtime.

I’m probably gonna have to chase down an interview with him fairly soon. I feel like we could spend at least 15 minutes talking about algorithms.

[SONG OF THE DAY] Brothertiger - "Livin'"

photo credit: Alec Castillo

Today I’m delighted to share the news that one of Brooklyn’s finest, Brothertiger (born John Jagos), will be releasing another album in this hellscape of a year. The aptly titled Paradise Lost is slated for a September 11th, 2020 release courtesy of Satanic Panic. Following up last month’s Fundamentals Vol 1, an album of lush instrumentals, Paradise Lost, explores the shifting nature of one’s expectations, which given the state of *gestures wildly* everything happening around us right now, this record will be the definitive soundtrack to Redefining Your Post-Pandem Life.

Our first taste of Paradise Lost, “Livin’”, is quick to get to a key element in managing one’s expectations, which is to give yourself permission to revel in the power of your own decision making instead of crumbling under the pressure of external forces. “There’s always underlying pressure to be achieving certain life goals at certain ages,” explains Jagos. “The song is about doing your own thing and not worrying about how other people think you’re living your life.”

Paradise Lost is available for pre-order now. Tell you what, that marbled purple vinyl is lookin’ pretty lovely right about now.

Paradise Lost

Release Date: September 11, 2020

1. Found
2. Mainsail
3.Shelter Cove
4. Livin’
5. Cannonball
6. My Canopy
7. Swing
8. Checking Out
9. Pyre
10. Paradise Lost

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[SONG OF THE DAY] Space Above - "Movements (feat. Boyboy)"

Last week Los Angeles based electro-pop outfit Space Above released a new track, “Movements”, from his forthcoming EP due later this year. You might know the New Zealand transplant (born Aaron Short) from his time playing keys with The Naked And Famous, but this has been his primary project for the last few years. The track is a collaboration with fellow Los Angeles based Kiwi, Boyboy (born Sam McCarthy), and recounts their shared experiences with earthquakes upon moving to Los Angeles. McCarthy was inspired to lyrically explore the fear, helplessness, and inevitable acceptance one goes through when overwhelmed by forces much greater than our own. The pairing of McCarthy’s lyrics atop a synth laden soundscape that is evocatively akin to the full course of a micro adrenaline rush triggered by something that catches you off guard. Speaking on the track, Short shared, “It’s fascinating how the instinctual reaction is immediate survival mode, but after a little time passes (and in our case, so did the shakes) you then grasp just how little control you have of the situation when it’s literally the earth moving beneath you.”

The accompanying music video was crafted by Anna Chocholi, who takes these themes and presents the song in a world that is dark and jagged in nature, while leading us on a journey that is met with warmth and surrealism.

“Movements” follows EP cuts, “Golden (feat. So Below)”, “Nobody Home (feat. Tom Young)”, and “Stolen Days (feat. Alisa Xayalith)”, which are worth catching yourself up on before the rest of the EP drops.

MOVEMENTS Out Now: http://smarturl.it/SA-MOVEMENTS @space__above | @boyboylife Written by Aaron Short, Sam McCarthy Lyrics: https://genius.com/Space-above-mo...

[SONG OF THE DAY] Laux - "A Long Way From Love"

image courtesy of Laux

Last week Wexford, Ireland singer-songwriter Laux has unveiled, “A Long Way From Love”, the followup track to his debut single, “Rain”. While “Rain” gently introduced us to his striking vocals, “A Long Way From Love” is where we get to see that he knows exactly how to use it to leave you straight up shook. While the song is quite raw from a songwriting standpoint, I don’t think I would be as equally devastated every time the chorus ends if someone other than Laux were singing this. Born out of confusion and heartbreak back in 2017, the track encapsulates the heart wrenching moments of a relationship’s painful end. Laux shared, “The song is about me trying to move on from what I thought was a broken relationship and something that could easily be replaced, only to realize that what we had was irreplaceable and just ‘A Long Way from Love’”

Both “A Long Way From Love” and “Rain” are from his forthcoming debut EP, Rain, which is due out later this year.

[SONG OF THE DAY] Aubrey Haddard - "Thin Line"

photo credit: Andy Zalkin

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Today Brooklyn based Aubrey Haddard (and future best friend, I hope) shares her latest track, “Thin Line” along with accompanying music video. I have been waiting ALL WEEK (and a bit longer than that if I’m being honest) to share this one with you. Tell you what, this is the kinda bad bitch energy I intend to be strutting out of quarantine with. Every time I play this song (which has been at least 3 times a day) I pick up these Ladyhawke meets 90s era Sheryl Crow vibes, where she strikes this sophisticated balance of modern indie pop while maintaining an overall rich analog feel to her sound. I suppose you could say it walks a….. thin line…. between retro and modern.

Speaking on the track, Aubrey shared,  "The song kind of touches on the factors in my life that tend to push me over that line between sanity and chaos, but it's mostly about feeling. A little uneasy and a lot of fun."

[SONG OF THE DAY] Brix - "Call Me Naïve, But I Guess I Thought If The World Was Ending, You Would Call"

lovingly lifted from Brix’s Instagram

So I had a completely different SOTD picked for today but in addition to the vibe not feeling right, I happened to tumble into something much more powerful.

Enter: Brooklyn-based quarantining COVID-surviving chanteuse, Brix (born Sophie Dupin).

I should have known the second I saw the title that it was going to deliver a swift kick right in the feels, but my curiosity needed to know what a song titled, “Call Me Naïve, But I Guess I Thought If The World Was Ending, You Would Call”.

Y’all.

Speaking on the track, Brix shared, “I wanted to share my story so that if even just one person felt a little less alone, then it was worth it.“

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In addition to this song being so deeply vulnerable and beautifully executed by Brix, the accompanying video for the song equally packs its own wallop. Recorded throughout the course of her quarantine (and subsequent successful battle with COVID-19), she took to her balcony on the daily to record herself performing in quarantine, leaving little notes for days that stood out throughout the process. In addition to this being a diary of sorts for herself, this is such a time capsule for what the experience of quarantining in New York has been like, all the way to the very end of the video (no spoilers here from me).