FEATURE: The February Playlist: Vol. 3: Spring Around the Corner?

FEATURE:

 

The February Playlist

 

Vol. 3: Spring Around the Corner?

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EVERY time I think I have music figured out...

IN THIS PHOTO: Little Simz

it keeps throwing up surprises and left-turns. I am always excited when a new song comes out of nowhere with no fanfare or build-up. It is always fascinating discovering a nugget of audio gold that you were not expecting. I guess we are used to those artists who love to hype themselves and create a media circus. Against that tide are musicians who are making music and trying to make people happy. I guess music is a contrasting and polemic profession that is never short of wonder and shock. This edition of The February Playlist has a nice balance of new mainstream tracks and those lesser-heard songs worth time and attention. Have a listen and enjoy another full and frantic selection of new songs.

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Laura Marling - Next Time

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MapSUlQ4RYE&w=560&h=315]

Thundercat – Friend Zone

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrQMIlJbgs8&w=560&h=315]

Maggie Rogers – Color Song

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebt86W0EJnM&w=560&h=315]

Bob Dylan – My One and Only Love

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMys7u3_vg&w=560&h=315]

Romeo Santos - Héroe Favorito

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktq4zATPFsI&w=560&h=315]

The Weeknd – Reminder

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjAg6fK-BQ&w=560&h=315]

Rae Sremmurd – Swang

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmJefsOErr0&w=560&h=315]

The Lemon Twigs - I Wanna Prove to You

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJGzm2fF2Uo&w=560&h=315]

Little Simz - Picture Perfect

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVGtd5kjsI&w=560&h=315]

Beyoncé - Love Drought

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyQSKe75L4&w=560&h=315]

Dylan Scott – Sleeping Beauty

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P17xZNiZj-k&w=560&h=315]

John Legend and Cynthia Erivo (ft. yMusic) - God Only Knows

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R7kPZF8wRA&w=560&h=315]

Michael Bublé - I Believe in You

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94MHIeeGwys&w=560&h=315]

Tokio Hotel - Something New

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBIj-rFpRBw&w=560&h=315]

Ary – Childhood Dreams

https://open.spotify.com/track/4y6sUWPw0XzCb8RodaNSPY

Estrons – I’m Not Your Girl

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Hanni El Khatib - Savage Times

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhvZvHpqDFM&w=560&h=315]

Off Bloom – Falcon Eye

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016lgoQb21I&w=560&h=315]

sir Was – Revoke

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lli1TclJ9JQ&w=560&h=315]

Galantis – Rich Boy

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvPGJX-HbE&w=560&h=315]

Mt. Wolf – The Electric

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpSMoS1dbs&w=560&h=315]

PWR BTTM – Big Beautiful Day

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDn4ZCo0NOU&w=560&h=315]

Little Cub – Too Much Love

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSsyjnHXxY&w=560&h=315]

Sam Gellaitry – Jungle Waters

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwwl_5stL1M&w=560&h=315]

ANYA – Wasted Love

https://open.spotify.com/track/38DfN7F8VVKxtBqjxRIUA8

Elina Ryd – Sprickor

https://open.spotify.com/track/7H9VM28NmhYFdcCMwWp76t

Pumarosa – Dragonfly

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwXzS5t1bY&w=560&h=315]

Karen Elson – Distant Shore

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVbtWYpZcGU&w=560&h=315]

Julietta – Beach Break

https://open.spotify.com/track/1oWvtXGEO3lBHzwGSZfO54

Muna – So Special

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbxDu_mDs8&w=560&h=315]

Kings of Leon – Reverend

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaMJG_sb18&w=560&h=315]

Take That – Giants

https://open.spotify.com/track/1XuqhShERyGkjhYXJ94TxX

Maximo Park – Risk to Exist

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mStNOUpGcw4&w=560&h=315]

Incubus – Nimble Bastard

https://open.spotify.com/track/1p5aKetFO3dctfQpeEVyMj

Hawkon – Gold Girls

https://open.spotify.com/track/6cUXFVcWi6hIrgmQViv6nS

Kaah – JUNGL

https://open.spotify.com/track/5THZsDGzTqf8AkMCEdTZwa

Penny Police – No Horizon

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6lPShT0ShU&w=560&h=315]

Passion Pit – Inner Dialogue

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3IVp4a8G9Y&w=560&h=315]

The Shins – Mildenhall

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8wC7LFyQs&w=560&h=315]

Meat Wave – Run You Out

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnIbn7-_i5k&w=560&h=315]

MisterWives – Machine

https://open.spotify.com/track/3gT24QYMA65I38nj4k1rAw

Summer Moon – Happenin’

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8zXeresLw&w=560&h=315]

Olivia O’Brien – Empty

https://open.spotify.com/track/0CxPqfcZDXp1QoTnhAE1xC

Amy Macdonald – Automatic

https://open.spotify.com/track/5zYOma0swDBqOAn9V8Z8fr

Johnossi – Hey Kiddo

https://open.spotify.com/track/1RRPLF57bRHUDsovs44VP4

Royal Thunder – April Showers

https://open.spotify.com/track/4oxBe9XIcfNEfXyQLFT1jc

Satellite Stories – Young Detectives

https://open.spotify.com/track/07gZ8kyRCT2DDbESRRAyWJ

Los Campesinos! – The Fall of Home

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozfkEPxDqk&w=560&h=315]

Animal Collective – Kinda Bonkers

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikl16iLeHIY&w=560&h=315]

Dutch Uncles – Streetlight

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyEPk6d4YV8&w=560&h=315]

Ryan Adams – Breakdown

https://open.spotify.com/track/3arRfILwXQWmCYFBvLZ7rq

Devlin – Corned Beef City

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEinlklineo&w=560&h=315]

Otis Taylor – Banjo Bam Bam

https://open.spotify.com/track/7acv1UPsWc5H2scMC8Nofs

Shaggy (ft. OMI) – Seasons

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKG1udtxzDI&w=560&h=315]

Sondre Lerche - Violent Game

https://open.spotify.com/track/7hs935cEqtGr9kMnKL3fp0

The Orwells – M.A.D.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhXe8RHLz5E&w=560&h=315]

Vant – Parking Lot

https://open.spotify.com/track/4KdtBLGQAHIVEvr9UqBlYs

Danny Worsnop – Anyone but Me

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNJvTLQdhg&w=560&h=315]

Frontier Ruckus – 27 Dollars

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bQJyzOGxE&w=560&h=315]

Eisley – Louder than a Lion

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SFrmKrLMsc&w=560&h=315]

Son Volt – Back Against the Wall

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1aHfWdVDRA&w=560&h=315]

Lorna Shore – Fvneral Moon

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOGlm646WAY&w=560&h=315]

Gurr - #1985

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxfNuiXVPhA&w=560&h=315]

Ásgeir – Unbound

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCrL8vIN_o&w=560&h=315]

Lea Porcelain – Bones

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21rICVxMpRo&w=560&h=315]

Blondie – Fun

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEngbdIMZ6o&w=560&h=315]

Communist Daughter – Keep Moving

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3pTlrOebI&w=560&h=315]

Mozart’s Sister – Angel

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu10054JwI8&w=560&h=315]

Jens Lekman – Postcard #17

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFFQKqkw8U&w=560&h=315]

Acceptance – Haunted

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IAfpJgHjOs&w=560&h=315]

The Courtneys – Silver Velvet

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8eDKxWBFwU&w=560&h=315]

Parallels – Technicolor

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Z6lN0y0mU&w=560&h=315]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Fireproof

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQv2yIeVtdE&w=560&h=315]

Balto – Lost on the Young

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David Bowie – When I Met You

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fDy-mRGFkw&w=560&h=315]

Crystal Fairy – Chiseler

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPP0P3l2ic&w=560&h=315]

Dirty Projectors – Up In Hudson

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCruYl7kz4&w=560&h=315]

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Nuclear Fusion

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFVhqcRpN4&w=560&h=315]

Froth – Passing Thing

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArswnrgNtk&w=560&h=315]

Old 97’s – All Who Wander

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-f7R1cyhY&w=560&h=315]

The Feelies – Been Replaced

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz2CNdup5Zw&w=560&h=315]

Dams of the West – The Inerrancy of You and Me

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mORwYN_g8AQ&w=560&h=315]

Rhiannon Giddens – At the Purchaser’s Option

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vy9xTS0QxM&w=560&h=315]

The Luyas – All of Everything

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaeTY50cmXU&w=560&h=315]

Pissed Jeans – The Bar Is Low

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJscLzuxiWc&w=560&h=315]

Nikki Lane – Highway Queen

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcvQL8_ZP20&w=560&h=315]

All Time Low – Dirty Laundry

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwmxiLSD0w&w=560&h=315]

Anna Pancaldi - Brother

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhI5UCZUwr4&w=560&h=315]

Discplines – On My Mind

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Xc74Dn1ZKH6H8XaVGOHXG

Flo Rida (ft. Sage The Gemini) - Game Time

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgW2uRpwipU&w=560&h=315]

Ed Sheeran - How Would You Feel (Paean)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_33urhzLM&w=560&h=315]

James Blunt – Time of Our Lives

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bxj1tlTmK5IJnuuiAQSfL

Flume - Quirk

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSIqC-IVY8U&w=560&h=315]

Kygo and Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5drYkLiLI8&w=560&h=315]

Maroon 5 (ft. Future) - Cold 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCBmhs4dYzc&w=560&h=315]

Emelie Hollow – Like I Love You

https://open.spotify.com/track/23Ys8agSMo6sMxUkCzOJxS

Linkin Park (ft. Kiiara) - Heavy  

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp00DMy3aVw&w=560&h=315]

Pitbull (ft. Stephen Marley) - Options

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCgI7DM8v4&w=560&h=315]

James TW – Ex

https://open.spotify.com/track/6grsbjkrl7DN6waueAmNbm

Nelly Furtado – Flatline

https://open.spotify.com/track/5nzLi6BxitQ3fMvjIgV88l

Rhys – Last Dance

https://open.spotify.com/track/0cbQXCWA8A17cZ9gm158Pz

The Valentine’s Day hoo-ha has ended and the shops are practically stocking up for Easter! It is hard keeping a track of the changing celebrations and commemorations: one day you are in winter and finishing Christmas; now it seems we are hurtling to spring. Keeping things settled and grounded is new music which continues to bring sunshine and beautiful visions. This week has seen fewer mainstream tracks released – more from the underground and new acts – but the coming weeks promises more from the big-hitters of music.