Miynt – Station station
Genre: Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Swedish artist Miynt proves that inspiration can come from anywhere on the new single Station station.
Does cultural appropriation really exist? If so, you might want to empty out a good chunk of your record collection. From Indian music, Caribbean influences, and old-time Gospel, the 1960s bands took everything in their bid for psychedelic mind expansion.
They weren’t acting on their own behalf. People believed them too. That’s why they made them superstars. In fact, each time that Lennon and McCartney promised a brave new world you can bet they weren’t crafting it from old-time English music and cups of tea.
Miynt is a Stockholm-based artist that takes a similar approach to songwriting. Station station is a dream song, a psychedelic fabrication. It’s built on a reggae rhythm, but so much is added to the foundation that you might not notice. This is not Scandinavian music. It’s not world music. It’s music that looks to get in tune with some sort of celestial vibration.
clear eyes – no place i’d rather be (featuring Reo Cragun)
Genre: Chillstep, Indie Electronic, Indietronica
clear eyes goes out looking for the summer on the modern electro-pop of no place i’d rather be.
Can you believe that there was once a time when fans were obsessed with knowing who their favourite musicians were and what they played? This was also a time when most listeners equated the use of electronic elements in pop music with some form of cheating.
Times have certainly changed. A lot of music has become faceless. There’s a certain freedom in this. Not all bands are forced to cater to their public’s expectations of them anymore. Not all songs have to feature loud electric guitar solos.
There is little that sounds organic about clear eyes’ no place i’d rather be. But, that’s the point. This is a song of remembrance and melancholy. The electronic elements help construct something of an aural illusion. Clear eyes proves that music is made of whatever sounds you manage to turn into a tune, from a computer serenading us about summer to a lad banging on steel drums.
