Music Shelf Review Roundup - 08/31/2024
Mustard reviews a collection of new music they recommend your human ears check out.
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Welcome to the return of the Music Shelf Review Roundup. This roundup will feature a collection of recent releases that Mustard recommends you check out.
- This roundup originally featured Spotify links. The links appear to be broken and are not showing up.
Julia Adrian - Potential
This song has the potential to change your life. Heck, even your mood. Your human feet will create a dance floor in your student union or outside your local bank. That deposit can wait. You need to shake your body like a used restaurant salt shaker. On this release Julia proclaims that she is ready to break all their rules for you. Let her. Join her. Julia sees in the best in you when others haven’t. That is why you no longer speak with your Uncle George. All George cares about is himself and his lottery tickets. Family is secondary to Monopoly Secret Vault scratch offs. Humans like Julia do not come around often. Join Julia and become the grooviest outlaw the country has ever seen. Cops can’t arrest you if you are dancing.
Remy Reilly - Half Price Books
Half Price Books by Remy Reilly will inspire you to go to your local bookstore or library. You may have an idea of what type of book you are looking for but honestly you have no idea. That is okay. This indecision will lead to you creating a montage browsing through books; fiction, non-fiction, kids. It does not matter. You continue to do this until an employee comes up to you and asks if everything is okay. Everything is not okay. You spill your whole life story to this minimum wage employee who you wind up talking too all night. They try to get you to go but instead you order yourself Doordash and get it delivered. Because you aren’t a sociopath you share some of your Doordash order with them. They appreciate that so much they add you to their group chat. You aren’t supposed to be in their group chat. You aren’t employed. It does not matter. They invite you to the movies next week. You accept and call your mother letting them know you can’t make pickleball. Deadpool and Wolverine isn’t going to see itself.
Eliza May - Got My Love
When a human finds that special person in their life nothing else compares. This upbeat and positive song will have you confessing your feelings to your crush. You have been wanting to tell them how you feel for 34 weeks but have been unsure how they would react. I mean, they are in medical school. Do they really have time for me? You don’t want to disrupt their schedule. Well, love doesn’t care about their work schedule. If you haven’t confessed your feelings to your crush by the end of this paragraph Eliza May’s Got My Love will give you that extra push you need to do just that.
Jay Marie - Small Town Baptism
Jay Marie is one of Mustard’s favorite voices in music. Marie’s voice (and music) are hypnotizing. Their newest single Small Town Baptism will have you changing your religion and not looking back. Your human parents are considering disowning you but that is a battle for another day. They’ll claim you have always been a [insert your religion here] but you were also six and lacked critical thinking skills. Now you have the ability to make decisions on your own. If The Matrix was being made today this song would fit perfectly in the entrancing club scenes.
SARIKA - From Inside The House
From Inside The House by SARIKA is a reminder not to be fooled by humans who claim to live, laugh, and love. Living, laughing, and loving is a gateway to hypocrisy. Humans who declare this are being performative to score brownie points with their neighbor who they frequently talk crap about. Or potentially the other parents at the school board function which they only show up to not for the benefit of their kid but so they can be invited to the next soiree. As a condiment that listens to a self-made SARIKA playlist every morning during the work week this is a song they have not be able to get out of their bottle cap.
Fiona Kweskin - Call In Sick
Speaking of work humans are overworked, underpaid, and undervalued. Humans work so much that their interests and hobbies get pushed to the side. The debut single by Fiona Kweskin will inspire you to call in sick. You do a lot for your company. Now it is time that you do something for yourself. Call in sick. Go make out with your lover. Go to your local park and feed the turtles lettuce (not bread. Bread is bad for them.) Bring your lover to the park to feed the turtles lettuce and make out. There is so much you can do when you are not stuck in a place where you spend eight hours or more at. Don’t feel guilty. It is okay to do something for yourself. Maybe don’t forge a doctor’s note. Mustard is unsure of the legality of that. Nonetheless, the debut single by Fiona is fun and groovy. If Ferris Bueller’s: Day Off ever gets a reboot they need to sing this during the parade.
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