🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵
Hi hello I've been out and about and travelling the last two weeks and I've been bad about posting Songs To Go, haven't I? I'll try and make good on this week, maybe also throwing in a few bands I've come across on my travels across the UK and Canada :)
Anyway, if you're new, Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll.
As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!
[latest poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]
This week’s picks are pretty much bands I’ve seen and heard round town: I saw Gwenno’s mural at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff, and if you don’t know her (then this post is for you, isn’t it?), she’s a cool Welsh and Cornish indie/rock/synthpop musician and producer, used to be in the girl group The Pipettes in the 00s, and this song Anima is from her 2022 album Tresor, the first Cornish language album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize.
There’s one Mercury Prize winner here, English Teacher, who (at the time of scheduling this post) I’m seeing tonight and am sure I’ll sob at this song. Yorkshire poetry post punk that couldn’t come from anywhere else in the country, if you don’t know them.
I’ve also got a Birmingham synth punk duo whose show I walked into opposite the Clwb whilst we waited for the venue to open, and who wrote a very amusing post punk piece on the Homes Under The Hammer presenter of the same name. Another post punk duo from New Zealand who are friends of a good friend of mine from there, who remind me of the 80s greats! Then I’ve got some cool Canadian RnB-jazz from Alberta.
Picture evidence of all this under the cut ;) Tell me what you enjoyed, reblog to pass it on, and hopefully I’ll be more regular from next week. Happy listening!