MUSIC

“Wild Love” by James Bay is the song of the week. As usual, I’m listening to it on repeat. I “discovered” Bay with “Hold Back The River” and I liked his minimalist music, which is like a breath of fresh air sometimes. But now that he shifted to something more electronic (after all his new album is titled “Electric Light”), citing Prince and Frank Ocean as inspirations, I’m not disappointed at all about his new sound and look.

The video of “Wild Love”, directed by Marc Klasfeld, shows James Bay trying to reach a girl on a crowdy dance floor, while many butterflies fly all over. Beautiful song, beautiful video, and yes, beautiful and stylish musician.

All I know about FUR is that they’re a band from Brighton, I haven’t found any other information about them. But I read some comments under their videos on YouTube that say “Green Day and The Beatles had a baby. I dig.” or “Billie Joe + The Beatles ❤️“. And I agree.

So the song of the week is “If You Know That I’m Lonely”. Its refrain is so catchy. FUR’s sound is youthful and has beautiful vintage vibes.

The song of the week is “Adult Diversion”, a 2014 song from Alvvays first, self titled album. I recently “discovered” this Canadian indie pop band. There’re so many good musicians out there!

“New Light” by John Mayer is the song of the week because I find it so relaxing and sweet.

The video, by directing collective Fatal Farm, is pretty ridiculous but kind of funny, almost naïf, with cheap visual effects, locations, and Mayer’s weird outfit. I mean, he looks like he’s just got out of his bed.

Mayer joked about the low budget available to shoot the video but it’s so “bad” that one day it could be remembered as a great one. People are actually loving it. Maybe it’s a breath of fresh air, compared to lavish and expensive videos we’re used to see.

I’m listening on repeat “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” by Anna Calvi. It’s such a beautiful song! I love Calvi’s voice. I saw her live four years ago and I enjoyed every minute of the concert.

“Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” is the first single from Anna Calvi’s upcoming album “Hunter”, which will be released on the thirty-first of August. The singer described it as “primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong”. I’m looking forward to listening to it.

The video of “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” has been directed by William Kennedy and choreographed by Aaron Sillis.

“Shut Up Kiss Me” by Angel Olsen was one of the first videos I saved for The Song of the Week series. I don’t why I waited so much before sharing it. The song is from “My Woman”, the singer’s latest album, released in 2016.

I find both the song and the video, directed by Olsen herself, cheerful. I was thinking about sharing something different, then I realized I wasn’t in the mood for dark, kind of depressing music/sound. So, I hope you’ll like the song.

“Till The Next Goodbye” by The Rolling Stones is such a beautiful and sweet song.It’s  not among the most famous songs by the band but it’s the proof that rock bands make the most beautiful love songs and ballads.

This video is simple, just the band playing on a set. I like the way Mick Jagger is dressed, but maybe it’s Jagger that looks great, no matter what he wears. I recently saw a documentary about The Rolling Stones and, as it was necessary, it strengthened my idea that Mick Jagger is one of the most handsome men ever (from minute 2:28, unbelievably handsome).

“First Light” by Django Django has been in my music folder for a while so I thought it was time to choose it for the song of the week. I don’t remember the first time I heard this song, maybe it was the soundtrack of a fashion show. Anyway, I immediately liked it and saved it to share it here.

“First Light” is part of the 2015 album “Born Under Saturn”. Django Django recently released a new album, titled “Marbled Skies”.

The song of the week is “Yikes” by Kanye West. Since I don’t understand everything he sings (ok, I just understand some words here and there, included that word that starts with letter n), if Yeezy sings something nasty or offensive, I’m not aware of it! I just like the rhythm of the song, which has  been written by Drake.

I was waiting for a new song by The 1975 so much! I started to listening to them last year and I immediately liked their sound and their videos.

“Give Yourself A Try” is the first single of the band’s upcoming album, titled “A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships”, which could also be the title of a sociological essay. The album is supposed to be released in October.

The song is about aging and Matthew Healy (who is 29) sings “I found a grey hair in one of my zoots/like context in a modern debate I just took it out” and “what would you say to your younger self?” so I guess even cool musicians don’t feel comfortable about aging.

The video has been directed by Diane Martel.