Quarantine Pairings: Martronimous, melvin darrell & Samryebread, Rosemeat, and Sean Danger Smith

We've got a couple of new and semi-new singles for ya on this rainy Tuesday (yes, we're still keeping track of the days of the week)!

"Hush" By Martronimous (feat. Duns)

**SPECIAL NOTE** we do not the actual single on this page for a reason! Martronimous created this song because of COVID-19. It addresses the slowing-to-a-halt pace of life that we are all experiencing together and all proceeds from their Bandcamp sales go to the National Domestic Workers Alliance- Coronavirus Care Fund. You can listen to it HERE!

Artist: Martronimous For Fans of: Disclosure, Phantogram, FKA Twigs Quarantine Pairings: listen to this song while preparing a nice French Press and patting yourself on the back for saving the world in your loungewear.

"Grease Fire" by Melvin Darrell - featuring Samryebread

Artist: Melvin Darrell / Samryebread

For Fans of: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Vita and the Woolf, Amy Winehouse

Quarantine Pairings: We're gonna get real with ya on this one. Throw this song on in the background and set the mood RIGHT for that Facetime sex session you've got planned this week. We see you.

"Thought So" by Rosemeat

Artist: Rosemeat

For Fans of: Big Thief, Julia Jacklin, Better Oblivion Community Center

Quarantine Pairing: Yoga! It's not just for those perfectly filtered Instagram influencers! Try it out while listening to this new tune!

"SpaceCamp" by Sean Danger Smith

Artist: Sean Danger Smith (check out his label's Bandcamp HERE!)

For Fans of: Counting Crows, John Mayer, Damien Rice

Quarantine Pairing: Listen to this song while picking up some kind of needle craft! We recommend embroidering or crocheting, but knitting and cross-stitching ain't bad either.

Eliza Edens is Calming Me Down with her New Album, "Time Away From Time"

Eliza Edens self-released her first full length album, Time Away From Time. This album is a blessing, a GIFT, to all of us in these hectic days. Nothing soothes my mind quite like listening to these songs. Most of the songs on this album were inspired by the question: “How do I make the days go by / With a fever dream but a mellow mind?” Eliza explores this question and the relationships between the natural world and the way we process emotions with calming guitars and relaxing, beautiful vocals.

Eliza considers herself a “rookie songwriter.” I have to say, she is an absolute natural. She has found that she needs to be completely alone, body and mind, in order to write. Her empathetic nature makes it difficult to write with others around. If she’s able to get into a completely present state, the words and lyrics come to her simultaneously. Her songs also strongly focus on the way the music and lyrics intertwine, like the words are another instrument, blurring together into one song. She’s working toward balance in life and the way she writes, “[the album has] mostly been about just me and nature, which is obviously not how the world is.” She hopes to expand into writing more about relationships and life in general.

Time Away From Time is very much a collaborative effort. Eliza tells us, “I think people tend to forget a lot of the time – especially when an artist’s project is under their own name – that records are always the result of a team effort, large or small. After the songs were written, the recording process of this album was very collaborative, and I am so proud of and indebted to Dexter Wolfe and Pat Keen who both stepped up to the plate and delivered some beautiful work on these songs – hearing and accentuating things in the production, arrangements, and harmonic progressions that I could not. Every single person hears a song differently, and the more trusted hands you get on shaping your music, the more depth it will have.”

She also gives credit to music auxiliary support that allows her and many other artists to cut their teeth in the scene. The places where she was able to (and actually WANTED to) write and perform her music. The open mics, coffee shops and DIY house venues were crucial to her growth as an artist. “I applaud anyone who performs in those kinds of situations with regularity and anyone who regularly hosts house concerts or DIY basement shows or random songwriters in a coffee shop. It's a labor of love.”

Eliza will be live-streaming on Youtube tonight at 7:30PM HERE to celebrate her album release. Listen to Time Away From Time below!

Plant Sounds Releases Music Video for "Living In The 90's"

Plant Sound came out with a music video for their new, nostalgia-based song, Living in the 90's. Depicting the band's "enthusiasm to party & use any household item as a percussive instrument," the video is a split screen delight with Wes Anderson undertones. The song is an homage to the beautiful, neon and grunge decade that was the 90s through "Clueless themed parties." I really like their gritty, kind of fuzzy, all encompassing shoe-gaze-y vibe. The song sucks you in, in a weirdly mesmerizing way. And I am all here for anything that will hold my attention for 3 minutes. Check out the video below, and find them on Spotify HERE!