Alice Merton - No Roots

I like digging holes and, hiding things inside them
When I grow old, I hope I won't forget to find them
Cause, I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

I build a home and wait for, someone to tear it down
Then pack it up in boxes, head for the next town
Cause, I've got memories and travel like gypsies in the night

Continuing the week with another rocking female groove, I present to you Canadian/German/British Alice Merton (if you haven't already heard her a dozen times on your alt station). A sudden darling on my local station, I keep hearing bits of this track when I'm flipping the dial and finally tracked down who/what it was this morning. Hitting the ground running with a solid label (Mom + Pop) behind her, her first EP (which this song is part of but which is not on Spotify) came out in July and won an award in Germany already. 

RIYL: Florence + The Machine, Joseph, LP, Mitski

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Cut Copy - Counting Down

Tell you all my fears
Losing loves and fading years
But I'm still sitting on my tears
They wouldn't go to waste

No matter what you do to turn it down
Know that I want you too to have the sound
All your clocks are slowly counting down
Love will save, love will save us

Whichever weekend of ACL we choose to attend, there's always a couple bands exclusive to the other we'll have to miss. Last year it was Wombats and Atlas Genius, this year it's Mutemath, Joseph, and Cut Copy. CC's new album, Haiku from Zero, just came out last week and it's goood so even though Keith posted an early release back in July, we're doing 'em again. I'm going to hang out on the rooftop of our building and see if I can hear their set...

RIYL: Chromeo, Miami Horror, YACHT, Toro y Moi

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Midnight Faces - Devils Money

Only so many ways I can say
You always keep me from where I'm going
Only so many things I can change
Obvious difference is you're not going

I'm really excited about this Discover Weekly find. Midnight Faces remind me (musically) of The Cure but with a less screechy/effeminate vocalist (no offense to dear Robert Smith). Definite 80s post-punk synth pop-rock vibe. They have a very modern formation: collaborating over the internet from disparate cities in the east/midwest, until they moved to L.A. (and added a drummer). "Devils Money" is their latest single, but I'm also loving 2016's album Heavenly Bodies, especially the tracks "Blue Haze" and "Sirens"

RIYL: The Cure, Shout Out Louds, Funeral Advantage, Tape Waves, Bad Suns

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