Karaboudjan – Mitroglou
Fight your way up to the top with enough vigour for enough time, and you will both reach your goal and find yourself exhausted. Get yourself up there, and the moment that you realise just what you’ve managed to achieve, you’re likely to collapse into a panic and start questioning whether it was all worth it. Conventional success takes a lot out of you.
But you will have learned the rules. That much is certain. There’s no way to achieve conventional success without knowing the rules and finding the people who can help you bend them. On the other hand, if you choose to live your life just outside of these restrictions, you may achieve something better – freedom. That’s what Karaboudjan has found.
Stop making sense and notice if the world around you doesn’t suddenly start making a lot more sense. That’s what Karaboudjan’s psych-garage freakout of “Mitroglou,” a song that may or may not wear the title of a former Greek football striker, does. It powers through a list of names and creates connections that shouldn’t blend together at all. Frankly, it’s refreshing.
Low Cut Connie – Can’t Be Wrong
Sure, there are millions nowadays who listen to Van Morrison’s records with the same reverence you typically reserve for a prophet on the way to becoming a deity. There are people who, in every turn of phrase and every nuance of playing, hear the world’s biggest truths revealed. And, I confess, that I am one of those hopeless romantics.
But what did Van Morrison, and, for that matter, any of the great soul singers ever really try to do? What were those astonishing truths that they always tried to reveal?
I suppose it’d all have to boil down to the fact that music, and creativity, in general, for that matter, is supposed to lift people, give them joy and make life worth living.
That’s what Low Cut Connie believes as well, so don’t get cynical on me now. Sure, there’s a real polish to the single “Can’t Be Wrong.” But, if you listen hard enough to this soulful garage-rocker, you’ll notice that it’s music meant to be played live with the purpose of lighting and inspiring. How can any of that be wrong?
