New Music Weekend / 8/22-8/24/25
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Coming up for New Music Weekend – Jon Batiste, Water from Your Eyes, Royel Otis & more
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New Music Weekend:
- The uber talented Jon Batiste who makes music just by walking by you released his 9th studio album – BIG MONEY (cut of “Big Money”) Nine tracks in all – in fact, the final track #9 features No ID who was also a co-producer on the entire album (cut of “Angels”) No ID recently teamed up on another album earlier this year with Saba (cut of “Woes of the World”) I really enjoy me some Saba – But that was back in March. More on Batiste’s album – when compared to some of his orchestral work, this album is definitely more stripped down. (cut of “Maybe”) “Maybe” is the name of that beautifully composed song which includes these thick, powerful chords from his solo piano playing. Love it! Then, the lyrics pose some big questions about one’s life and purpose (more “Maybe”) Making you think with these songs. Got one more – there’s a bluesy sounding, high energy tune called “Pinnacle” – just a word salad of lyrical fun (cut of “Pinnacle”)
- Nate Amos and Rachel Brown are behind the band – Water from Your Eyes. Within their Spotify bio, they mention how their music has a hint of Jay & Silent Bob. You have my attention (clip of Jay and Silent Bob) Love those guys. Kevin Smith forever. Tangent back to Nate and Rachel or Water from Your Eyes (clip) Album is called: It’s A Beautiful Place and it’s being described as a “kaleidoscopic blend” of art rock, post-punk, and experimental pop, with moments of nu-metal drumming, grunge, and even dance-punk. Take their song “Life Signs” (clip of “Life Signs”) you go from this rhythmic vocal deadpan and then hard pivot into this raw, grunge filled guitar sound (more of “Life Signs”) I’m all in on this “kaleidoscopic” sound – I like that word. I made a card for it. (flash card) Just one more song, for now, that I’ve been enjoying from Water from Your Eyes off this new album of theirs called – It’s A Beautiful Place – is the song “Playing Classics” – the video is definitely one to check too with the teddy bear (cut of “Playing Classics”)
- Typically, I only do 2 deep dives into albums. But – there was so much goodness out there, I had to do a 3rd (clip of “moody”) Royel Otis is the band. Previously, I heard a couple of their songs non-stop on Sirius XM’s AltNation – one was “Sofa King” – if you know, you know, if not – go listen to that song and enjoy, but then they also did a cover of “Linger” from The Cranberries (clip of “Linger”) Wonderful rendition of that classic tune from 1993. The 1900s – as my daughter pointed out to me the other day – anyway. New music (clip) I am enjoying this album called – Hickey. Several songs have been released like “Car” and “Say Something”, but I am enjoying the new one being pushed that also has a video to go along with it – here’s “Who’s Your Boyfriend?” (clip of “Who’s Your Boyfriend?”)
- Several quick hits of new music: Back in March, I did a deep dive into Sombr (clip of “undressed”) I was basically begging for a full album drop – and now, we have one. I still need to dig into all as you all should, too. 10 songs under the album title – I Barely Know Her // Five more new albums to check out this weekend and we’ve got every musical flavor: Dominic Fike, Twenty One Pilots, Mac DeMarco, Wolf Alice and the Deftones. // If you enjoy King Crimson and Phish, then you’ll enjoy King Llama who by the way have a Sleuth Llama T-shirt that I want so badly (picture of the t-shirt) So cool, I’ll provide a link. However, the music from King Llama is an instrumental mix of jazz, rock, funk, and jam-band music that I’ve been enjoying while simply sitting in my house library. New song is out though and even though it was done in the studio, the music very much has a “live” feel. Here’s “Jump Ship” (clip of “Jump Ship”)
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that! Anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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