On this edition of LITM Rock Picks, tracks take on calm brightness, passionate rawness and touching vulnerability. This list features Rosetta West, Super Tuesday, Calista Garcia and more!
1. Rosetta West - Dora Lee (Gravity)
‘Dora Lee (Gravity)’ by Rosetta West sounds like a raw, distilled ode to someone that seems to consume our narrator’s thoughts. Love and passion seem to meld with grounding roughness to create a mood that feels engaging and intentional.
“...Oh Dora Lee, there’s nothing in my mind except you…”.
The rough rawness in the track’s instrumentation seems to slot in place, even playing with tempo to create that heady, floating quality falling for someone evokes. The song’s energetic build up edges on passionate desperation, wrapped around earnest yearning. The song holds place for a love that comes in waves, passionate, desperate and searing with longing.
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2. Joe Hodgson - You I Think Of
‘You I Think Of’ by Joe Hodgson is a bright and calm guitar-led track that sounds like lovely love song. The guitar's melodies pair with synth melodies to produce a sound that feels expansive and sentimental. It's as though the melody only seems to move onward and up.
This build is bright and constant, allowing the song’s instrumental soundscape to shine through.
The melodies on the track feel doused in love and longing. The calmness of the track seems to flow through, creating an ambience that holds space for expansive feelings melded into melodies.
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3. Wild Horse - Overthinking
‘Overthinking’ by Wild Horse is a bright, synth-based track that captures every winding thought driven by feeling. Its lyrics capture this familiar cycle of overthinking in the face of a new, vulnerable emotion that only seems to layer on itself.
From, “...are we in deep, or is this how it’s meant to be…” to “...are we ok or have I been a little too strong…”, it’s clear our narrator earnestly wants this new, tentative connection to work. All these emotions seem to build up to an emotion that feels a lot like surrender. “...For you and me I follow you into the night, because being here’s what’s feeling right…’.
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4. Super Tuesday - Through the Static
‘Through the Static’ by Super Tuesday is a bright, sentimental and calm classic rock tune that uses familiar melodies with this pull of optimism that tugs you in. The song’s melodies and rhythms feel familiar and winding, keeping you afloat on a boat that seems to be drifting in spirals.
Its lines embrace holding onto hope through to the silver lining. “...Pulling through, coming out the otherside through the noise,...through the static…”. There’s a calm, balanced sense of optimism to the track that feels like a cool embrace. A soundscape that evokes the numb embrace of the light at the end of the tunnel.
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5. Calista Garcia - Animal Magnifique
‘Animal Magnifique’ by Calista Garcia is an energetic, reflective pop-rock track that feels bright with a dark edge. Its lyrics teeter on the edge of optimism and the heaviness of subtle contradiction. The bright, almost in-your-face melodies seem to be broadcast from “...the perpetual inbetween…”, a sonic space that feels settled yet dynamic.
This brightness is paired with poignant lyricism that feels deep and thought-provoking. “...We’re all living in a world that don’t fit together, tryna carry on while it’s tearing at the seams…”. This to, “...and we’re not meant to be alone…oh the humanity (animal magnifique)...”.
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