These LITM Singer-Songwriter Picks come to you from artists like Ulrich Jannert, SonicNeuron, Emma Forgette, and more!
1. Ulrich Jannert – Rewrite the road
Ulrich Jannert’s Rewrite the road draws you in with a timeless, heavy piano and Jannert’s raspy vocals. Its emotional depth contrasts with its simplicity, creating a beautiful juxtaposition that lets you immediately connect with it, accessing its emotions to create your own meaning out of what it gives you. Jannert’s magnetic vocal delivery invites you to let go of all that’s been dragging you down, while the song’s acoustic sensibilities and catchy, simple melody pair with reflective, profound lyrics. The whole song carries positivity and warmth, acknowledging that life can be difficult, but the only thing to do is to move forward.
2. SonicNeuron – Entre linhas e segredos
Opening SonicNeuron’s album Confissões de Lívia (Lívia’s Confessions), set to soundtrack a Brazilian series of the same name, is Entre linhas e segredos, an upbeat, warm, and cinematic track. It emulates the best of 90s pop and blends expanse and intimacy with ease. It’s light and sparkly, for lack of a better word, soaring high above you with carefree abandon. Entre linhas e segredos unfolds with energy and life, and is brimming with a sincerity that’s both charming and disarming. It encourages you to put your walls down and step into its world – and you’ll be happy you did so!
3. Emma Forgette – The Text I Never Sent
Evocative and deeply in touch with her emotions, Emma Forgette’s The Text I Never Sent is heartbreakingly regretful. Forgette explores the intense grief that accompanies losing a loved one, and the spiral that comes immediately after, where you go over everything you did wrong, and whether you could have done anything differently, and would it have made a difference anyway? The track is restrained and soft in its production, letting the weighty vocals be front and centre, making sure that its message lands as hard as possible: its simplicity becomes the channel through which Forgette’s emotions reach you, and they stay with you awhile.
4. Sean Griffin – Be My Girl
Sean Griffin, veteran frontman of The Ruffians, is stepping out solo, and Be My Girl is just one of the tracks he’s put out there since doing so. The song effortlessly leans into storytelling as it sends out “a lonely plea for connection in a grind-it-out world.” It transitions smoothly between soft romance, driven by gentle percussion and instruments, and explosive longing that leans completely into Sean Griffin’s rock influences. Shot on-location in a gorgeously lit and decorated church and pub, the video feels like a breath of fresh air, with interesting camera work and shots keeping you watching throughout. Check it out here!
5. Ian Roland – Virtually Free
Ian Roland’s Virtually Free is hazy and distorted, feeling like it’s coming to you through a thick, dense cloud of smoke. The track’s instrumental layers, perfectly intertwined, envelop each other, while Roland’s vocal delivery is tender and blurry, for lack of a better word. It immediately makes you feel comforted with its organic sound, putting you in a trance of calm focus. It’s grounded in melodies vaguely reminiscent of folk, with an energy that’s entirely moldable to what you want it to be for what you’re feeling in the moments you listen to it. A bright, soothing track, it’s sure to have you play it on loop to absorb it – listen here.
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