Monthly Playlist : October 2020

 

Here’s a short monthly post to alert you to the fact that the latest Breaking More Waves new music monthly playlist has been uploaded to Spotify. Full tracklisting below. You can find it on Spotify by searching for New Music Monthly (Breaking More Waves 2020) or clicking here

Next year I’m thinking of making this playlist weekly. I’ve always resisted this as it seems to be what every other new music playlist does, but the trouble with doing just a monthly one whilst trying to keep it to a reasonable length is that I end up missing off a lot of stuff that I’d really like to share.

So, after the inevitable Christmas lull, I’ll be transferring to weekly playlists, published on a Saturday which will be in the region of about 1 hour long.

Here’s October’s best of:

Spa – Icona Pop & Sofi Tukker

Haunted Sea – The Budos Band

Acting Normal – Blackstarkids

Meal Deal – King Hannah

Bureau de Fatigue – Laundromat

Monsterpiece (Joe Goddard Remix) – Raf Rundell

Boy Bye – Lauran Hibberd

Faith Healer – Julien Baker

Swear – Bruch

Headfirst – Megan Lara Mae

Bad B*tch Energy – Stay Home Sound Machine

Apricots – Bicep

Altitude – Avec Sans

Block Your Number – Maude Latour

Cut You With A Kiss – Salt Ashes

Mork n Mindy – Sleaford Mods & Billy Nomates

Revolution – Greentea Peng 

Really OK On My Own – Coach Party

Just Move – Pixey

Dry Fantasy – Mogwai

Mary Lattimore – Til A Mermaid Drags You Under

Here are three choice cuts from the full playlist; one of the bangers of the year, a beautifully epic and intricate ballad plus some fruit related electronic dance.

Spa – Icona Pop & Sofi Tukker

Icona Pop · Icona Pop x SOFI TUKKER - Spa

Swear – Bruch

BRUCH [bɹuːk] · Swear

Apricots – Bicep

BICEP · BICEP | APRICOTS

24 Hour Blogathon - The End

This is the end.

It is now 9.15am on Sunday.

I started this challenge at 6.15am on Saturday running 10 miles in a time of 1 hour 30 minutes. It was surprisingly OK – the wet weather helped keep me cool although by the end I was absolutely saturated and my running shoes are still soaked now.

Then after a break I sat down and began to blog. The first few hours were easy – I quickly put together a list of tracks I wanted to post and a couple of other articles about mental health and running, as the challenge was related to both of those.

However, as the day went on and into evening the blog became hard work. I ran out of things to write about. My body began to tire from lack of sleep and the run. And staring at the screen for most of the day caused my vision to blur and give me a headache. Over the course of the 24 hours I also lost WiFi 3 times. So I wrote less posts than I hoped. But at least I managed to go through the 24 hours.

But if a challenge didn’t involve some form of pain, there wouldn’t be any gain. And I’m very pleased to confirm that at the current time I have raised £745 for Solent Mind. My original target was £150 and even when I hit that early on I never expected to get above £300.

Before I sign off I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has donated, offered words of support or spread the message about what I was doing using social media. It’s been wonderful to see everyone being positive in a year that hasn’t had much to cheer about.

If you haven’t donated and fancy doing so now I’ve finished the challenge, just click here.

The blog will now go back to being dormant except for an end of month playlist each month.

I really hope I don't have to do this again and that next year we can put on Dials Festival and raise even more money for Solent Mind that way. 

That's all folks. Over and out. I'll leave you with the band that would have headlined this years Dials Festival and got the room dancing like loons.

Robin @ Breaking More Waves

International Teachers Of Pop - I Stole Yer Plimsoles

INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP · I STOLE YER PLIMSOLES - INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP ft JASON WILLIAMSON

24 Hour Blogathon: Introducing - Cat & Camell

This post is part of a 24 hour blogathon (conducted after a 10 mile run) in support of Solent Mind, a mental health support charity. I would be really grateful if you would help by sponsoring me and help raise some funds for the charity. 

You can find my sponsorship page by clicking this link.

In this post I’m introducing a new pop duo from Sydney who probably won’t be getting much play on the radio for their debut single. Not because it’s not good (it is) but because of its title; dumbshit. If it wasn’t for that this could easily be all over the airwaves, particularly because of its anthem-like gang chorus.

The song celebrates the invincible feelings you have when you’re young; not treating anything seriously and just taking things on the chin when they go wrong and come back to bite you. "We'll burn all our bridges, still young and reckless." The visuals for the song also take on board the fun and stupidity of teenage years matching the lyrics perfectly. 

Both in their early 20s, Cat spent her childhood in China and moved to Sydney as a young teenager. Calmell was born and raised there. If they have more songs in the bag as good as dumbshit then their stars could easily rise.

Cat & Camell - dumbshit

24 Hour Blogathon - Zig Zag - Do Better

This post is part of a 24 hour blogathon (conducted after a 10 mile run) in support of Solent Mind, a mental health support charity. I would be really grateful if you would help by sponsoring me and help raise some funds for the charity. You can find my sponsorship page by clicking this link. 

As I’ve now been awake for 25 hours and have also done a 10 mile run in that time period I’ve reached the stage where I’m not really sure about anything anymore. But what I do know is that to keep me going I need something hell-raising, rowdy and loud. 

Which is where this Australian band called Zig Zag fit in. Are they any good? Right now I really don’t know. I think they probably are, but everything seems a little off centre in my sleep deprived brain so I can’t fully trust my judgement. Press play and make your own mind up, but they’re certainly helping wake me up.

Zig Zag - Do Better