Four Songs to Listen To - 08/03/10

I started listening to this girl, Jessica Grace, about a week ago. I instantly liked her because she reminds of my good friend Meredith from The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter. I dig singer songwriters. There’s something very natural and easy to like about this genre. Jess’s song “What Is It In You” exemplifies these qualities. The song comes out a little forced at times, like she’s trying harder than she needs to. The simple acoustic and soft snare taps come on and off elegantly. There are feel good familiar lyrics like “What is it in you? That I can’t find in myself?” that really make the comparison to Alanis Morriset easy, but I’m guessing she’s tired of hearing that.

Tappa Tappa Tappa Chinga Ching! This is a very satisfying song. Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me. It’s got lots of breaks, something I like in my instrumentals. The sound starts off acoustic and natural, then gets mixed up heavily after a minute. I don’t know and can't imagine what the feeling it’s trying to express is. Everytime I listen to this track I feel something different. It’s smooth, yet a little rough around the edges. What you make of it will probably depend on what mood you’re in right now. Hope you feel like some buttery dubstep.

I saw this song by Pretty Reckless, I followed up and checked out this group and was floored by there sound. It’s straight up female lead rock. This song kicks ass, solid melody, lyrics, clear and well produced. I’ve never heard of them but the youtube link shows three quarters of a million plays, so naturally I though maybe Rachel has already heard of them. I didn’t want to look around all the blogs pages, it’s getting kind of big now after a few months. I put up a list of topics in the right column to make going back or find a band you like easier. For me, it’s keeping me from doing repeats.
Anyways, this band, Pretty Reckless. Just started the band about a year, all pretty young. They released an EP about a month ago, their first studio album comes out at the end of August. I’m ahead of the curve on this one. Check out this single that they put out in May called “Make Me Wanna Die”

A bit of nostalgia and falling back a killer song that everyone should know and like. Head Automatica is a band/project by the singer of an experimental hardcore band to pursue some more pop and electronic. They released a couple solid albums in 2004 and 2006, their last album has apparently been in limbo since last year. Let’s hope we can hear more about them soon. This song is fun rock, it’s energetic and a little hard, but with a sweet easy to access message. Very catchy and listen to it enough you won’t forget it with a little tune in your head at strange times. Apparently they don’t like youtube with all the actual videos being taken down. All the existing copies are just lyrics, not that I don’t love those fan made videos, I just really want to show the full official videos whenever possible. Let’s see how the MTV embedding works out... Oh look extra links along with the video, no thanks.