There are few greater joys in music fandom than an unexpected and perfect collaboration. Bachelor, the new project from Jay Som and Palehound, provide just that with their debut, “Anything at All.” The pair made the track early last year, during what was then expected to be a brief respite …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Poolside and Amo Amo, 'Around the Sun'
Poolside and Amo Amo’s new single lands somewhere between cry-for-help and carefree jaunt. The musical bed underpinning “Around the Sun” is tailor-made for Too Slow to Disco parties — a cozy, unhurried bass line, shimmering motifs from several synthesizers, multi-tracked vocal harmonies high on the scale. Think of a Venn …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Juliana Hatfield's Police Cover, 'Can't Stand Losing You'
Juliana Hatfield could, as they say, sing the phonebook and we’d listen. So it’s all the more captivating when she covers someone like the Police. Hatfield just dropped a Rachel Lichtman-directed video for her cover of “Can’t Stand Losing You,” off of 2019’s Juliana Hatfield Sings the Police (via American …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Yola, 'Faraway Look'
In the final scene of Hulu’s Veronica Mars revival, Mars drives off into the sunset after a series of both triumphs and tragedies leave her life hanging by a thread. As she drives, Yola’s “Faraway Look” plays in the background, a song so good it almost steals focus from the climactic scene …
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