I not too long ago downloaded an app called Stats.FM which tracks your Spotify listens and compiles them into data driven charts so you can see what you’ve been binge jamming the most. This has been a lot of fun how by the end of the week I saw what my Top 5 streams were and I was actually surprising to see so I figured I would start sharing my Top Five Most Played Songs of the Week. Well, here we go:
Simrit – Agunjur (Live) from the album Live in Los Angeles 2019
Simrit is a psychedelic world music band from California whose music revolves around the creative out put of lead vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Simrit Kaur. The music of Simrit is hypnotic, mesmerizing, and it has this trance like quality that slows me down. When I listen to Simrit, I go from 90 to about 25mph and find myself sitting (or lying down) and immersing myself in the music. It’s beautiful and you should check it out.
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Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station from the album Terrapin Station
Forever has this song been my absolutely favorite Grateful Dead song. So much so I have my favorite lyric “Inspiration Move Me Brightly” tattooed on my arm. This is one of the most epic songs I have ever heard. It’s a suite of sorts and if there is a song that I truly believe displays the Dead’s talents and the ability to take making music to the highest of highs, this is the song. It’s truly an experience to listen to this song so stop what you’re doing and escape.
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John Mayer Trio – Gravity (Live) from the album Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert
Like most Deadheads, until John Mayer joined some remaining Grateful Dead members to form Dead and Company, I found myself going to visit John’s catalog and what I found was a ton of songs that I looked over and never paid any attention to over the years. The amount of substantial and emotionally charged music this guy makes is staggering. This particular song just hits me with all the feels. The guy plays and sings with so much passion that it’s damn near impossible to only listen to this song once.
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Lykantropi – Kom ta mig ut from the album Tales to be Told
Since first hearing them about five years ago, Lykantropi quickly became a top tier favorite band of mine. This particular song is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have ever heard. The woodsy folk sound of this song takes it into a pretty dark and somber path. It’s a love song of sorts but the love in this song is painful. It’s confined and wanting to be released which eventually it is in the chorus of the song which sends chills and goosebumps every time like it’s the first time I ever heard it. Powerful stuff.
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Hallas – Star Rider (Single release)
How can you not be intrigued by a band who coins their sound as Sci-Fi Adventure Rock? According to the band’s Wiki page, The band is named after the main character of the stories they tell in their lyrics; Hällas is a knight living in parallel, medieval universe in which “religion similarly, albeit not necessarily the ones we recognize from here, are very prevalent and where treacherous tyrants reign lands on the verge of the apocalypse and where seers have gained so much strength that they can dictate the future and the past”. How could this NOT be awesome?
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