Tagged: song of the week

Song Of The Week Dec 18

So I’m in Taiwan visiting family and eating random food when by a quirky twist of fate I chanced across a band called called The Kaleidoscopes who have a new song out called Kung Fu:

Kung Fu – Kaleidoscopes ft Shuttle

Musically it’s a mix of very good things: Home, Empire of the Sun, with bits and pieces of Tame Impala and M83 all thrown in for good measure.

Not much left to say except I have another blog post to write real soon about other great music like The Kaleidoscopes I’ve heard recently. And if you want me to hear your music you can send it to the blog here.

Song Of The Week August 7

Yi – Runaway

To all the fellow producers reading this blog, a great way to meet new artists is to hang out on Twitch feedback streams where all the other producers send in their tracks for analysis by those watching and the stream creator. And so it came to pass as I was hanging around streamer Todd Champ‘s channel, a young chap called Yi pitched in with this absolute gem of a song. Clearly inspired by M83, FM84 and all your face synthwave greats, this is a very strong tune with a seriously infectious chorus. I really really rate this one.

Random Song Of The Week May 2023

As many readers to my once famous, frequently blogging blog know I like to haunt the Submithub Hot or Not charts because it’s a veritable mine of great new music and every now and again a song comes along so good it makes you halt what you’re doing and pay close attention.

Rabbit Hole by Lyonhart is one of those occasions:


Stylistically I’m reminded of Chris Isaak, Manchester band TSDP (AKA Mamucium) with shades of obscure Irish band The Adventures:

I sense there are lots more comparisons to make but these are futile and I urge you to enjoy Rabbit Hole on its own merits, especially the deliriously hypnotic outro that lifts this track into other worlds entirely.

Sena from the band tells me the song is all about self reflection and how we’re seen from the eyes of others, or as they put it:

An introspective mediation on being accepted despite all your flaws. An explanation about the traumas that we all carry through our lives, and how it colours our individual view of the world. “We are the centre of our own universe” as the saying goes, so it’s easy to feel misunderstood, despite the fact that we’re all misunderstood in some fundamental way.

Which I think is a lovely way at looking at things. I’m enjoying falling down this rabbit hole. You’re next.