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 Last Wednesday The 2021 Brits were celebrated. Usually in February but delayed due to coronavirus restrictions, the Brits took the O2 Arena with the best ceremony of the year and the best Brits in years. Despite that, the ceremony lost 860,000 viewers since last year. The Dayly Mail points out that it's because viewers wanted to watch a show focused in music, not in politics (Dua Lipa seems to be the one to blame here for claiming better salaries for frontline workers). Anyway, awards ceremonies are losing more viewers each time: The Grammys had  historic low ratings and the same happened with ACM awards in country music or to the Oscars.  However,  this year's BRITS have been one of the best. Here's why: 1. Dynamism  : The set was a big room with the celebrities sat in tables, like in the past years, but due to social distance , there was more space between the tables, so when winners were announced the artists had to walk a longer distance. This showed t...

 Dj Khaled dropped a new album almost two weeks ago ( Khaled Khaled ) , filled with famous collaborators (Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Post Malone, Meghan Thee Stallion...). The third track on the project is We Going Crazy (ft. H.E.R. and Migos). It is the first release for the R&B singer since she received the Oscar for Best Original Song ( Fight For You from Judas and the Black Messiah ) and it consolidates the more urban direction H.E.R's career is taking.  H.E.R. gained popularity in 2017, with her single Focus, with smooth , soothing vocals and shimmering production. In 2017 she featured on Daniel Caesar's Best Part , which won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance and made both artists the face of a new trend of r&b, that was cleaner than the common contemporary and urban R&B , gave importance to soulful vocals and relied on more classic instrumentation.  In 2018, she received five nominations to the Grammys and ended up wining two (the one for Be...

1.Redwood-Rewind: A ceremonious piano introduces Redwood's soulful vocals that are the star of the song. On the track, she finds peace and hope in the possibility of rewriting your steps and story. There is space for some tenderness too and sweetness ('do it all over again sweetheart '), like she has just found the solution to her problems. The song creates its whole and unique atmosphere of weird intense calm. 2. Emma Mae-Boys In Bands : There is something about this song that makes you feel you are listening to bbc Radio 1 or Capital fm suddenly. The topic of falling in love with boys in bands or the bad guys seems so proper for a pop song. The first minute of the song is soft and thoughtful, like you were thinking out loud because you know you shouldn't date those guys. Later the song gets more rock. There's something punk on Emma's voice that gets gets along with the electric guitars and drums so well. 

 The second chapter of Eric Church's seventh album was released last Friday. Soul is also made of nine songs, but the energy totally changes from one part to another. This is funnier to listen to and The Chief seems to be enjoying it too while singing and playing these songs. This album is all about energy , sound and performance. Eric Church carries a vivid, soulful and wild show, exhibiting a wide vocal range (falsetto and deeper voice) throughout the whole album . This time the lyrics aren't personal or even deep . They are funny, getting in the 'bad guy' character or the 'break it kind of guy' . The only exceptions may be Lynird Skynird Jones( that is about the tragic life of  a biracial man born after an affaire in a concert of the band Lynird Skynird ) and Hell of a View , the most chart successful song from the project (top 5 on the billboard hot country songs chart). This the best attempt for a love song. It's a love letter to his lover and to what...

 Exploring 'alternative guitar spectrum', the Birmingham singer Oliver Beardmore will definitely bring you 2000s-bands nostalgia with the second single from his upcoming EP.  Warm vocals get you in the track. However, these turn into some coldness while delivering the message of the song, maybe as a result of vulnerability. The certainty of  saying  'It's you that I  always knew'  goes against the oneiric atmosphere that the track creates: It's similar to when you wake up in the middle of the night and everything seems a little blurry. The unexpected and proper guitar solo on minute 2:33 is a great element of surprise on the record and emphasizes the feeling of the song . The track gets wilder and more rock at this point, but it fits in the well-produced ensemble of guitar walls and textures , melted with the percussion.  In the first listen, the image of a cold and rainy night comes to mind and the rhythmic drums ,alongside the guitars ,suggest the sc...

 Eric Church finally drops the first part of his triple album 'Heart & Soul' . Heart consists of nine songs and some of them were singles previewed before the realease of the album:  Never Break Heart, Crazyland, Heart On Fire and  Stick that In Your Country Song  , the first single of the whole project, dropped last summer.  Stick That In Your Country Song is one of the most special moments in the album. It was written in 2015 by Jeffrey Steele and David Naish and finally given to Church to sing it himself. It has unavoidable social lyrics and social content, and it addresses young people problems, their options for life and the ease to get in contact with guns and violence. The song is almost combative and there's no better country act than Eric Church to sing it and , maybe, ask for change. There are brilliant songwriting moments, like the lines  ' Jails are full, the factories empty / Momma's crying, young boys dying / Under that red, white, and bl...

 The Lathums have released today their new single, Oh My Love , which sets the band closer to their new and upcoming album.  Despite the joy and the tranquility that the track reflects, there is a deeper meaning  or message in the song. Alex Moore, vocalist and writer of the song, explained in the band account's recent tweets the inspiration and some details about the process of writing the song: He confessed that he was able to complete the lyrics after experiencing the love of the fans and his ability to ' make other people feel emotions'  ,  and that the track came ' from pain and uncertainty'. Oh My Love seems to be a very personal track for Alex, who has also says that it is 'a little bit of me'. The official video came out just a few hours ago. Watch it below:

 Following their single Woman, Beorma released yesterday Drown, the sixth track from their EP Virtual Emotionality and which   stays on the darkness that the duo explored in the project.  Tom's vocals gather fragility and vulnerability, mixed with sadness. There's also some anxiety in them, like if he was searching hard for an exit to his problems and that ends up in the contradictory series of thoughts that make the chorus ( 'Hold me up / Bring me down/ Help me drown') . That angst is the same that drives Tom to try to find the solution in drugs, and it's also caused by what other people say ( 'It's easy looking in from the outside'// 'I worry about what people say'), the social fear, common in the youth,nowadays. The song creates an atmosphere itself and the autotune digs deeper on the feeling of sinking, drawing it almost phisically. Beorma keeps on illustrating the problems of the youth, focusing now on mental health. 

 On March 20th, CMT aired a documentary about the start and origins of the country band, Midland . The 45-minutes-long documentary films the band back in 2014, when they decided to leave everything and spend 11 days on the Sonic Ranch music studio to record some songs they had been writing. The idea of being a band was not formed yet :they weren't even signed. It was more like a three friends' reunion after living in different parts of the country for years, far from each other. The result of those recordings is The Sonic Ranch , which starts with one of the band's best songs, Fourteen Gears . It was previously included on their second album, Let it Roll . It's an on-the-road love letter and it paves the way for a more calm and placid sound. The band leaves all the risk and debauchery of their image as the 21st Century Honky Tonk American Band to get into this pleasant journey of tunes.They also leave all the cheating songs and focus on a deeper search of love and trust...

 Italian artist Irama presented La genesi del tuo colore for 2021's San Remo festival, the biggest Italian music contest. It scored the fifth position, even with covid-19 difficulties:A member of his staff tested positive and Irama and his team had to cancel the rest of the performances and be in lockdown. Irama could just perform the song once and the clip was repeated in the following nights. The song is illustrative of these times and of 2020, especially. Here's why it represents everything we have lived and we're living with the pandemic: 1. The Lyrics:  The lyrics are truly poetic, from the beginning. The song was described by Irama as 'an anthem to life' and that's what is shown throughout the whole piece. Life triumphs in each verse: 'There won't be no snow to break a tree' the tracks states in its first words.There is no better symbol of life than nature and a tree fighting for life, to spring, and life is going to make through in spite of ev...