These LITM Singer-Songwriter Picks are both melancholy and carefree – featuring Eternal Mourning, The Guzzlers, and MANNY!
1. Eternal Mourning – Night Wrapped in Violence (Stripped Down)
Eternal Mourning’s Night Wrapped in Violence (Stripped Down) is cinematic and alluring in its gentle, delicate acoustic sound that seems to house so much complexity within it, for those who pull the curtains back and look. Each element, note, layer of the track comes together to create what you can almost imagine to be a large, hollow, cave-like space, with just enough space in the middle for you to sit and listen to it. Relying on a minimal sound that tiptoes on the border between introspective and expansive, Night Wrapped in Violence (Stripped Down) is a hypnotic track that will put you in a trance. Listen here!
2. The Guzzlers – 20 Pints To Cherbourg
From just the names of the artist and the song, you can already feel an inkling forming of what the track could sound like – and chances are, you won’t be too far off. A no-frills-attached celebration of “drinking 20 pints of lager” in the style of a shanty, the track leans into its almost whimsical, happy-go-lucky sound with a grin and a carefree wink. It’s loose and free – the kind of song you could sing with a large, drunk crowd, all just vaguely on-beat and in-tune, and it’d still sound energetic and, at its core, alive. Check it out here!
3. MANNY – My Love
A soft, acoustic, and emotional track that explores love in its purest form, MANNY’s latest release, My Love, featuring Nancy Okai, is deeply personal in both theme and sound. It’s a track that’s stripped down to only what is necessary, allowing space for the vocals to be the focus of the track as the instrumentals provide all the support needed. Grounded on a simple guitar with a few string flourishes, My Love is warm yet melancholic, and centred, yet reaching out. Nancy Okai and MANNY’s voices come together to form beautiful harmonies that intertwine to create something that touches your heart – give it a listen here!
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