This edition of LITM Singer-Songwriter Picks brings to you kids’ country tracks, cinematic tracks, and more. The list features artists Busking Around, öð, Benjamin Djurhuus, and Kayla Storlid.
Busking Around - Hello My Dear
Delicately calculated and crafted, ‘Hello My Dear’ by Busking Around is cinematic in a way that doesn’t exude grandiosity and instead draws you in and has you experience its world. The instrumentation has at its heart a stunning play of strings that will have you catch your breath in awe. The strings exude just the right amount of emotions, without tipping towards exaggeration. The piano progressions – dense and deeply reflective – carry a different kind of weight in the song and give the song its shifts in pace. The vocals in the song sound like one you might encounter in a musical, with its rich baritone and narrative singing style. A unique song in both theme and sound, you must give it a try.
öð, Benjamin Djurhuus - Badihu
With shimmering acoustic guitar layers opening up the track, ‘Badihu’ by öð, Benjamin Djurhuus will have you imagine yourself running through the fields, laying down on lush green fields with the love of your life on a beautiful spring day. The song’s instrumentation is, in one word, magical and will have your eyes grow misty because of its sheer beauty. The celtic sounding violins, the guitars, the gentle percussion, all come together to create a sound that transports you to a different world. The string harmonisation post the little vocal section is absolutely breathtaking and is the perfect end that a song like this could have had.
Kayla Storlid - Mamma I Need a Moo Moo Cow
With rhythms that will have both you and a little kid dancing and jumping about, ‘Mamma I Need a Moo Moo Cow’ by Kayla Storlid fills your heart up with sweet nostalgia and golden joy. The song leans towards a country-folk sound, with fast paced string harmonisations and groovy percussion that is abound to lift the energies of whichever room the song plays in. Short and sweet, the song with its super fun, vibrant, childlike lyrics alongside the apt rhythms to move the lyrics about, this song is bound to be a new favourite of any child around you if you play it near them.
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