Miserable chillers – Eloise
Not everyone who fell in love with The Beatles dreamed of becoming globally successful rockstars offered the world’s riches on a silver platter. Sure, most of them did. But some of the best Beatles followers fell in love with the melodies and arrangements and wished that they could create their own. Some of the first DYI artists of importance in the world of pop-rock were among this crowd.
Raspberries, Emit Rhodes, or The Pretty Things didn’t achieve the success they deserved. Harry Nilsson or Badfinger couldn’t sustain theirs despite the endorsement of the actual Fab Four. And Big Star or The dB’s became heroes only to a trusting few. But the people who did hear these bands and connected with them fell in love. Now, others are following in their steps.
Miserable chillers’ “Eloise” is a beautifully slender lo-fi pop-rock song that belongs to the tradition started by musicians who worshipped The Beatles and wanted everything that the Liverpudlians had except for the pesky fame and trouble. It’s music for people who like to dream small, who wouldn’t mind spending much of their lives in a recording studio tinkering away, and who are actively looking for something sweet, precious, and easily damageable to have for their own.
Cole Withers – Chosen Bury You
Similar artists: Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead
Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
You may be surprised to hear this, but the war industry is hot right now, and they’d rather keep it this way. In fact, if you’re looking for a moneymaking job that has never been out of fashion for long, it might just be time to work on your resume.
It may also come as a surprise if you’re not the kind of person who likes to keep up with the fluctuation of the stock market, and the veterans of this dirty trade would rather keep it like this. The hawks are always watching, and the war machine has to bed.
But what will really surprise you is that war is a barbaric, inhumane pastime that the documentaries have assured us that we’d outgrown. Some seem to get used to it, and others use it for their own goals, but anyone who has a heart views it as an abomination.
That is not to say that it’s easy to pick sides in any military conflict or that doing so will help matters. It’s natural, however, to feel angry, confused, and, against the advice of the hawks, to speak against it. Cole Withers does this on “Chosen Bury You,” a song in the vein of the classic pop-rock of the 1980s, a song asking questions about the current Middle East bloodbath. War is over if you want it, and especially if we all speak against it!
