HOT HALF DOZEN 10.7.25 – IndiePulse Music Journal

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Two winners from the Mexico Sings contest (15,000 entrants!), plus a brand new one by Nashville -based Al Nicole and a few down and soiled blueswomen

Sluggish week, solely 62 submissions (I suppose everyone seems to be at Taylor Swift’s film)

Lifetime of a Showgirl, album by Taylor Swift. After all!  Really, I wasn’t utterly satisfied till I noticed the movie after which went house and actually listened.  The album is sometimes good, each lyrically and musically.   For the reason that fashion runs by means of the album, the songs appear considerably the identical, nevertheless it doesn’t matter.  That being stated, there are some standout earworms that I  can’t cease buzzing, particularly “The Destiny of Ophilia”.   I like “Elizabeth Taylor”, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl”, and “Really Romantic”.  “Father Determine” does little for me.  That each one being stated, since it’s Taylor Swift, the messages are as necessary because the music, which is why the film is an effective way to take heed to the album.  Stream in every single place, together with your native cinema. 

Ain’t So Blind, single by Candace Ivory.  Down and soiled blues, fronted by a strong blues voice and strung out with a screaming electrical guitar and harmonica.  Ivory hits you between the eyes and makes you shake and shimmy and hit play once more.  Stream on Spotify and different main platforms.

One Hour Mama: the blues of Victoria Spivey , album by Maria Muldaur.  Muldaur has come a great distance from the oasis at midnight, and this blues album proves it.  A salute to one of the influential blues artists, pioneering blues singer, songwriter, and file label founder Victoria Spivey, the album appears again and ahead on the similar time.  With 42 albums, 6 Grammy nominations, and a number of Blues Music Award nominations,  Muldaur remains to be rocking the blues with earworms after 60 years of music.  Stream on all main platforms.

Quiero Sonar single by  Sergio Maya.  The guts of Mexican music, this swirly paean to Mexico hit all of the notes that you simply count on in a Mexican live performance – beat-making guitarrón. Dancing violins, hovering choruses, and coronary heart in your sleeve love, on this case, for his nation.  No marvel it took a prime prize in Mexico Sings” nationwide competitors.  Stream on Spotify and most platforms. Spanish.

Ahi Pa’ La Otra single by  Carmen María González.  One other Mexico Sings  (México Canta) winner, she brings hovering vocals, toe-tapping click on beat, and Mexican guitar collectively in an anthem-like music that fills you with feelings, whether or not or not you perceive the Spanish.  Stream on Spotify and main platforms.

Marylebone, single by Al Nicol. Americana-psych-folk, dreamy, hypnotic,  and but enjoyable.  Nicol’s far-off voice and ahead guitar mix to create an atmosphere, an phantasm, and a universe that sucks you in and makes you content, if a bit spaced as you ba-ba -ta-ba-ba together with him.  Stream on main platforms.



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