Music Recs
ARTISTS
- AURORA: ethereal vocals with themes of nature, battle, and social issues.
- Birdy: plaintive, melancholy vocals with themes of loneliness and support.
- Dermot Kennedy
- Dessa: self-described "overrated writer, underrated rapper".
- Doomtree: hip-hop collective with some fantastic lyrics - many of them by Dessa ("a Dessa Darling line, realest thing I never wrote").
- Florence + the Machine: baroque art folk-rock with often supernatural-themed lyrics.
- FKA twigs: genre-bending music with some haunting, often religion-inspired, songs.
- Hozier: RnB-inspired folk and protest singer.
- Imagine Dragons: some pretty mainstream rock.
- John Powell: emotional orchestral compositions.
- Kesha: electro-pop.
- Owl City: autistic pop artist.
- Mitski: Japanese-American indie rock singer-songwriter with a soft sound.
- Radical Face: alternative act who sings about family issues.
- Regina Spektor: thoughtful post-Soviet lyricist, often accompanied by piano.
- Rilo Kiley: soft indie rock.
- Sims: another member of Doomtree.
- Space Cadets: some great sci-fi filk/space shanty.
- Vienna Teng: solo act born Cynthia Yih Shih, with soft-voiced reflective folk-pop.
SONGS
- A Different Kind Of Human __ I guess you are a different kind of human
- Apple Tree __ let her save the world, she is just a girl
- Churchyard __ he told me I belong in a churchyard
- Cure For Me __ I don't need a cure for me
- Half The World Away __ my body feels young but my mind is very old
- I Went Too Far (MK Remix) __ I went too far when I was begging on my knees
- Into The Unknown __ I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you into the unknown
- Mothership __ am I home?
- Nature Boy __ there was a boy, a very strange, enchanted boy
- Queendom __ the underdogs are my lions, the silent ones are my choir
- The River __ let the river run wild
- Runaway __ and I was running far away, would I run off the world someday?
- Running With The Wolves __ there is nowhere for you to hide, the hunter's moon is shining; I'm running with the wolves tonight
- The Seed
- Through The Eyes Of A Child
- Warrior __ I am a warrior of love
- Keeping Your Head Up __ I'll be keeping your head up
- People Help the People __ if I had a brain I'd be as cold as a stone and rich as the fool that turned all those good hearts away
- Strange Birds __ you've always loved the strange birds inside of you
- Boston __ take me back to places I feel lost in; failing that, take me to Boston
- Glory __ she's singing to me 'glory'
- The Killer Was a Coward __ the killer was a coward, dark deeds in dark towers
- 5 out of 6 __ I don't win 'em all but I'd say I take 5 out of 6
- The Beekeeper __ they're kindred instruments, you know, the scalpel and the plow
- Children's Work __ I won't pretend I don't remember how unusual we were, the little mystic and his handler; all some children do is work
- The Crow __ that old crow came back today, sitting in my window like a prophet
- Dixon's Girl __ it's not much, but my money's on you
- Fighting Fish __ no you never can take the fight out the fish
- Fire Drills __ it's just a life of running fire drills
- Good Grief __ I want that good grief, the one that heals me, that leaves me clarified by fire, where I'm burned clean
- Palace __ you got a lot of long answers to a lot of short questions
- Poor Atlas __ there's a book of plans at the feet of poor Atlas
- Say When __ I don't say when, I fold for no-one and I, I always win
- Shrimp __ always a bridesmaid, never an astronaut!
- Sound The Bells __ the sun rose in the West today, I doubt we'll see it set
- Rome __ Saint Peter at the gate says 'tuck your chain in' - when in Rome you live by Roman code, it used to be if you don't like it you could leave
- Velodrome __ all lines are curved in the velodrome
- Warsaw __ I'm still living by my maiden name, the name I came with, the name I made
- Bolt Cutter __ my girl gave me a boltcutter, we love to break it, reclaim all the spaces they forgot they had taken
- Five Alive __ the medicine is fast, the bed is never made
- Fresh New Trash __ a man built with rubble while you fumbled your crown
- Little Mercy __ no more, my lord, turn back
- String Theory __ i'm packing meat inside my skull
- 100 Years __ give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly
- Big God __ you need a big god, big enough to hold your love
- Free __ for a moment when I'm dancing I am free
- Girls Against God __ oh, God, you're gonna get it, you'll be sorry that you messed with me
- Grace __ Grace, I know you carry us
- Heaven Is Here __ heaven is here if you want it
- King __ I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king
- Light Of Love __ everybody shines in the light of love
- Moderation __ I never made it with moderation, no, I never understood
- My Love __ so tell me where to put my love
- No Choir __ I gathered you here to hide from some vast, unnameble fear
- No Light, No Light __ you want a revelation, you wanna get right, but's a conversation I just can't have tonight
- Seven Devils __ I'll be dead before the day is done
- Sky Full Of Song __ I could feel your anger from way across the sea
- What Kind of Man __ what kind of man loves like this?
- Which Witch __ who's a heretic, child?
- home with you __ never seen a hero like me in a sci-fi, so I wonder if your needs are even meant for me
- mary magdalene __ true as Mary Magdalene, creature of desire
- Cherry Wine __ blood as rare and sweet as cherry wine
- Foreigner's God __ screaming the name of a foreigner's god, the purest expression of grief
- Eat Your Young __ seven new ways that you can eat your young
- Francesca __ my life was a storm ever since I was born; how could I fear any hurricane?
- From Eden __ I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door
- In A Week __ we lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand, so small and discreet
- In the Woods Somewhere __ what caused the wound? how large the teeth?
- Jackie and Wilson __ we'll name our children Jackie & Wilson, raise them on rhythym & blues
- Nina Cried Power __ power has been cried by those stronger than me
- No Plan __ there's no plan, there's no race to be run
- Take Me To Church __ no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
- To Noise Making (Sing) __ you don't have to sing it nice, but, honey, sing it strong
- Birds __ birds fly in every direction
- Bleeding Out __ if the last thing that I do is to bring you down I'll bleed out for you
- Demons __ I want to hide the truth, I want to shelter you
- Digital __ we don't wanna change, we just wanna change everything
- Follow You __ I'm always on your team, I got your back, alright?
- Friction __ get down with the victim, we both know you need them
- I Bet My Life - Bastille Remix __ I know I took the path that you would never want for me
- Machine __ I'm not a part of your machine, I am the machine
- Natural __ you're a natural, a beaitng heart of stone
- Thunder __ kids were laughing in their classes while I was scheming for the masses
- Warriors __ you'd lay awake at night & scheme of all the things that you would change
- Whatever It Takes __ 'cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
- Forbidden Friendship
- Flying With Mother
- Praying __ I hope you find your peace falling on your knees, praying
- Gold - Acoustic __ you're the best we got going
- Abbey __ I awake every night, crying "set me free"
- A Burning Hill __ I am the fire, & I am the forest, & I am the witness watching it
- Heat Lightning __ can I give it up to you? would that be okay?
- I Will __ I will take good care of you, I will take good care of you, all I ever wanted is here
- Always Gold __ but you were always gold to me
- The Crooked Kind __ I know we're the crooked kind, but you're crooked too, boy, and it shows
- Call Them Brothers __ just frame the halves and call them brothers, find your fathers and your mothers if you remember who they are
- Hero __ I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
- Laughing With __ nobody laughs at God in a hospital, nobody laughs at God in a war
- Older and Taller __ I remembered you younger and smaller, but you're older and taller
- Samson __ the history books forgot about us, and the Bible didn't mention us
- Us __ they made a statue of us, the tourists come and stare at us, our noses have begun to rust
- A Better Son or Daughter __ you'll be better & you'll be smarter & more grown-up & a better daughter or son
- Icarus __ more cognitive than dissonance, they call me Icarus
- Immigrant Lover __ I don't fear the void, my love, 'cause our fates are now conjoined, my immigrant lover
- Antebellum __ I know the border lines we drew between us; keep the weapons down, keep the wounded safe
- Stray Italian Greyhound __ not now; I just stopped believing in any notion this tired world could change
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