Taş Parçası – Bu İnsanlar
The entertainment industry, if it gets its way, will keep you locked forever in the same habits you’ve always had. It loves it if you only watch the same movies on the same streaming service for the rest of your life. It is grateful for your support of the same stars for decades on end, never altering your admiration. And, of course, it hopes that you never change your taste in music or the way that you learn about new artists.
However, as artists like Taş Parçası prove, it is in your and everyone else’s interests to make the effort and look beyond what you’ve grown accustomed to. What do you stand to win? You might just learn that people from around the world have the same desires and fears as you. And, you might find a genuine competitor to all of the entertainment and information that you’ve been provided for so long.
There’s a growing, exciting Anatolian indie-rock scene. Tunes sung in Turkish have been featured on this site often in recent years. And, Taş Parçası’s moody, even slightly rebellious, “Bu İnsanlar” is a reminder of just the kind of treasures that you are likely to find once you move off the beaten path. This is just another reminder of the fact that pop-rock music is a universal language through which we, people of the world, have learned to communicate.
Violet UltraRay – graceland
The majority of the people who’ve made something of themselves, who get to eat in the fancy restaurants and wear the nice clothes, don’t care about. The majority of people who have the qualities to find significant success don’t care either.
Don’t be mad! They’ll assure you, if needed, that it’s nothing personal. It’s just business. It’s always about business, about chasing some opportunities that arrive only for the people who will push other of the way to get them.
What an amazing thing it is then to hear someone with immense potential sing that they care about you. In a lot of ways, this is exactly what Violet UltraRay does. Do you remember when records made you feel like someone cared?
Draped in glorious noise guitar, and influenced equally by shoegaze and alternative rock, “graceland” is as much a promise as it is a pop-rock song. This is a song about offering your undying devotion to someone. Isn’t it good to hear this still exists in the world?
