Atwood Journal is happy to share our Editor’s Picks column, written and curated by Editor-in-Chief Mitch Mosk. Each week, Mitch will share a set of songs, albums, and artists who’ve caught his ears, eyes, and coronary heart. There may be a lot unimaginable music on the market simply ready to be heard, and all it takes from us is an open thoughts and a willingness to hear. By our Editor’s Picks, we hope to shine a lightweight on our personal music discoveries and showcase a various array of recent and up to date releases.
This week’s Editor’s Picks options NoSo, James Smith, Billy Nomates, Brian Dunne, Glitterfox, and Mon Rovîa!
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Tright here’s one thing about “Sugar” that grabs you by the hand and doesn’t let go. Each time I press play, I keep till the final observe – pulled in by a glistening guitar line that sparkles like daylight on morning pavement, lifted larger by the heartbeat of tight drums and NoSo’s radiant, hovering voice. It’s the form of tune that has a heartbeat of its personal – achingly intimate and irresistibly candy, with a refined sting that lingers lengthy after the final refrain fades.
In a field of energy
A mouse is just too loud
Transfer like a hiker,
Indebted to you now
Two years after their debut LP Keep Happy with Me launched us to singer/songwriter Baek Hwong’s richly cinematic world of self-reckoning and coming-of-age vulnerability, NoSo returns with one thing greater, bolder, and fantastically assured. Launched in mid-Might, “Sugar” units the tone for the LA-based artist’s extremely anticipated sophomore album When Are You Leaving?, out October 10th through Partisan Information, and marks a strong step ahead – not simply musically, however emotionally.
“My first album principally comprised of daydreaming about what my life might be like if I embraced my id,” Hwong says. Certainly, Keep Happy with Me was an album of inner reckoning, reconciliation, and intense self-reflection. Its monitor “Parasites,” for instance, was initially composed previous to Hwong’s prime surgical procedure in 2020, and finally accomplished after that they had healed – written with their previous and current our bodies in thoughts. “Feeling Like a Girl Currently” toed an oh-so-thin line “between empowerment and dysphoria,” as they candidly expressed on the time.
In distinction to their first report, there’s a self-assuredness permeating NoSo’s current music in addition to their emotional headspace. “This report is firmly rooted in actuality and particulars my enlightening and tumultuous experiences head on,” they share.
That grounding is all over the place in “Sugar.” Beneath its dreamy disco groove and gleaming pop exterior lies a uncooked reflection on compassion, boundaries, and the quiet toll of holding house for somebody who’s hurting. “‘Sugar’ is in regards to the delicate dance of interacting with unstable, unwell people,” Hwong explains. “It’s a mirrored image on these experiences, aiming to strategy them with sympathy as an alternative of anger. I’ve discovered that that is the one approach I can transfer ahead – by not feeding these recollections and giving them energy.”
Solely in silence
And I fell on your
Waning sugar kindness
And I fell on your
However you wanted to be touched
And I may inform your
Illness had sufficient
That maturity echoes within the tune’s glistening refrain, house to a few of its most haunting strains – “Solely in silence, and I fell on your waning sugar kindness… however you wanted to be touched, and I may inform your illness had sufficient.” There’s heat and put on in that chorus, but in addition conviction and readability; a reclaiming of energy by gentleness, relatively than retaliation.
If Keep Happy with Me was NoSo letting us into their desires, When Are You Leaving? invitations us into their actuality – a brand new chapter of unfiltered self-expression, self-possession, and emotional depth, the place vulnerability meets resolve with refreshing vigor and sonic firepower. “Sugar” glows with unflinching empathy and unshakable energy, the sound of an artist totally of their aspect, pushing ahead with out compromise. It’s beautiful progress in movement – and if that is any indication, what’s coming subsequent might be much more luminous.
This tune could also be layered with nuance, however in the long run, it’s as candy as it’s seductive. I’ve been attempting to chop again on sugar in my 30s, however NoSo’s making it actually tough. Think about me hooked.
Maintain the land above me,
carrot on a string
Name me the issue
However you wanted me
Solely in silence
And I fell on your
Waning sugar kindness
And I fell on your
However you wanted to be touched
And I may inform your
Illness had sufficient
“Dancing With You (Child)”
by James Smith
The first time I heard that opening guitar line – heat, slow-burning, and soaked in longing – I felt like I’d stepped right into a light {photograph}. “Dancing with You (Child)” pulls you in immediately, wrapping reminiscence and melody into one thing wealthy, uncooked, and totally immersive. It’s bluesy and nostalgic, tender and turbulent. And James Smith, a person blessed with what have to be one of the crucial frequent names in the complete Western Hemisphere, units himself unmistakably aside: His voice aches with uncooked emotion as he dwells within the shadows of what was, caught in a spell of craving he can’t fairly shake.
It was a love of a unique type
Now loneliness is a pal of mine
I’m trying again on the summer season nights
When life felt so significantly better
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t give up remembering
The way in which that you just transfer child
Again after we used to really feel
So alive
Really feel like I’m simply losing all my time
Not dancing with you child
Dancing with you child
Smith’s first launch since final 12 months’s critically acclaimed debut Frequent Folks, “Dancing with You (Child)” looks like each a continuation and a daring step ahead. “It’s a monitor I’ve sat on for a few years now,” Smith tells Atwood Journal. “I wrote it particularly a couple of time a few summers in the past, when my accomplice and I might dance across the kitchen with the radio on. It’s fairly on-the-nose lyrically! This monitor is a nostalgic look again on the ‘honeymoon interval’ and the way nothing actually issues if you first fall in love.”
That sentiment pulses by each lyric. “Stumbling round on the kitchen flooring to our favorite tune on the radio. No there was nothing that would break us when our heartbeats moved collectively.” Smith captures the glow of younger love in vivid element, balancing the push of reminiscence with the ache of distance. “Oh I simply can’t give up remembering the way in which that you just transfer, child. Again after we used to really feel so alive.”
Stumbling round on the kitchen flooring
To our favorite tune on the radio
No there was nothing that would break us
When our heartbeats moved collectively
Now each time that I shut my eyes
I’m transported to that peace of thoughts
I preserve ’em shut ’trigger I want that I
Might keep proper right here without end
Musically, the tune is a masterclass in restraint and heat. That lead guitar – clear and expressive – carves out an area someplace between Fleetwood Mac and John Mayer, two of Smith’s largest influences (and, it simply so occurs, two of my favourite artists. Coincidence? I feel not). “I’d truly say that Continuum and Rumours are each on my desert island discs haha!” he says. “Continuum is so completely recorded and was positively a reference for this report.”
Fittingly, the tune was recorded stay in a single take at London’s legendary Konk Studios. “I didn’t actually have an strategy with the tune initially – it type of simply got here to me one morning while I used to be enjoying round on my guitar. Nevertheless, I feel when it got here to the recording course of,” Smith recollects. “I knew that I needed to supply the monitor in a correct studio (and never my little room in North London). So for this tune and the remainder of my new album, I went and spent a while at Konk Studios – which is probably the most magic place on Earth. It was based by the Kinks, and a few large, large data have been recorded there. ‘Dancing with You’ ended up being one stay take within the studio – and I’m tremendous, tremendous pleased with how old fashioned and funky it was to report like that!”
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t give up remembering
The way in which that you just transfer child
Again after we used to really feel
So alive
Really feel like I’m simply losing all my time
Not dancing with you child
Dancing with you child
Ten months on from Frequent Folks, Smith says this new tune represents each a fast return and a inventive evolution. “Lower than a 12 months and I’m again within the recreation already!” he laughs. “I completely love that report, but it surely looks like a unique me. I began writing these songs in my early twenties and I’m pushing 27 now. However it was an actual labour of affection and opened loads of doorways for me. I used to be additionally in a position to tour Europe with that album initially of the 12 months, and that was among the best experiences of my life, so I’m tremendous grateful for it.”
He continues, “I needed to make a fast ‘comeback’ as a result of I’ve SO a lot music. I’m always writing and producing songs, so it solely feels proper to place them out. And album 2 is a big step up from album 1.”
There’s an intimate ache to “Dancing with You (Child)” – the type that doesn’t shout to be heard, however makes you lean in. It’s light, but dramatic; grounded, but hovering. A love tune and a lovesick tune multi function. “I’d say it will possibly exist as each,” Smith displays. “I’d hope that listeners can really feel the trouble that goes into creating actual music with actual musicians by actual studio tools! This isn’t no AI / Laptop computer music. It’s tremendous difficult, however clearly sounds actually easy. I’m attempting to do issues old fashioned and be true to the singer/songwriters that got here earlier than me.”
With its timeless manufacturing, soul-stirring tone, and aching honesty, “Dancing with You (Child)” stands tall among the many 12 months’s greatest. And as Smith himself places it – with a wink wink, nudge nudge – “I’m an East Londoner with lots about me – I write and produce and blend all my very own music, and I’m not cocky, however I reckon I’m gonna be f*ing large in a few years.”
Say no extra – I’m inclined to agree. “Dancing with You (Child)” is nearly as good because it will get – and a month out from its launch, I’m nonetheless caught on that dreamy, radiantly stunning guitar line.
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t give up remembering
The way in which that you just transfer child
Again after we used to really feel
So alive
Really feel like I’m simply losing all my time
Not dancing with you child
Dancing with you child
“Override”
by Billy Nomates
Tright here’s a fiery tenderness coursing by Billy Nomates’ “Override” – like somebody staring down the sting of collapse and selecting, defiantly, to maintain going. It’s gritty and glowing abruptly: An indie rock-Americana hybrid that hits with equal elements grit, coronary heart, and hope. Whether or not she’s growling over guitar or floating above the haze, Bristol-based artist Tor Maries opts for endurance in a scenario that’s urging you to “do your self a favour and get out.”
First line that I wrote that you just don’t hear
Fell out of my throat then fell out my ears
Oh, I’m feeling one thing that I’ve by no means actually identified
From Viking to Roman, it’s older than the stones
And if I don’t have the braveness
Then I can’t simply let or not it’s
Why do al the vultures ship flowers to me?
I gained’t make you cash and also you don’t pull the strings
Why don’t you get an actual job and cease taking from me
You’re keen on if it’ll go down
So you may say you made us
And do your self a favor
And get out
Each a rallying cry and a reckoning, “Override” is the fourth monitor / focus single off Metalhorse, Billy Nomates’ just lately launched third studio album and her first made in a correct studio with a full band. Out now through Invada Information, Metalhorse departs from the stark post-punk of previous data and leans into one thing extra expansive – a uncooked, rootsy, and emotionally complicated sound formed by grief, resilience, and hope. Maries describes it as an idea album a couple of crumbling funfair, the place “some rides are good to get on and a few rides aren’t.” That metaphor turns into a vessel for all times’s chaos – danger and reward, heartbreak and exhilaration – and thru all of it, a struggle to maintain going.
“They let you know the truthful gained’t survive with out them. However you may override,” Maries insists – a line that lands like a mantra for reclaiming company in a world that tries to interrupt you down. And the tune itself is all resistance: Fueled by galloping drums, jangly guitars, and her signature bristling supply, it balances uncooked vulnerability with an unmistakable inside fireplace.
“First line that I wrote that you just don’t hear / Fell out of my throat then fell out my ears… I gained’t make you cash and also you don’t pull the strings / Why don’t you get an actual job and cease taking from me.” The lyrics bristle with frustration and readability – calling out exploitation, dismissal, and the vultures who circle if you’re already down.
Subsequent time that I discover you in my room
In search of one thing that you could possibly use
I can’t actually hеlp you in case you bought no concepts
You may simply should settlе
For getting previous and skinny
And that ain’t nothing shady
Yeah, all of us get what we give
When did all of the circus get so costly?
Nicely I bought one thing going
And also you simply sit and grin
Inform all of them I’m loopy
And hope it sinks my ship
You’re keen on if it’ll go down
See upcoming pop exhibits
Get tickets on your favourite artists
So you may say you made us
Oh, do your self a favor
And get out
Written and recorded three months after her father’s dying and following a private MS analysis, Metalhorse reckons with loss, insecurity, and perseverance in a world that hardly ever makes house for softness. It’s an album about survival – about holding pleasure in a single hand and grief within the different, and nonetheless discovering the energy to sing. “That was my security and safety on the earth,” Maries says of the bond she shared along with her father. Even throughout the hardest days, they may nonetheless speak about music.
On “Override,” she rises. There’s energy in her restraint, urgency in her breath. And whilst she reckons with a world that feels prefer it’s spiraling, she clings to what’s actual – intestine, grit, and a voice that refuses to be drowned out. The circus could also be costly, however Billy Nomates is priceless.
You’re keen on if it’ll go down
You simply love,
you’re keen on if it’ll go down
“Clams On line casino”
by Brian Dunne
Rright here’s one thing about your thirties that makes you pause and ask: Is it actually so unhealthy to desire a good life? Brian Dunne’s “Clams On line casino” feels prefer it was written for that precise second of questioning – that tug-of-war between self-critique and self-worth, between what we expect we must always have and what we’re allowed to need. It’s a tune that cuts to the core of millennial disillusionment, after which retains digging – trying to find sweetness within the stress, and lightweight in the course of the wreckage.
I’ve been attempting to have a superb life
However nobody desires you to be glad
They double the invoice and cut up the difference
Go away you paying down the curiosity
They are saying you get what you pay for
I purchased a mattress on the low cost retailer
I really feel like I’m sleeping on a concrete flooring
I suppose you get what you pay for
“I’ve each loads of class pleasure and loads of class disgrace,” Dunne, a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, member of people rock supergroup Implausible Cat, and longtime favourite of our pages, tells Atwood Journal. “The story form of ping pongs backwards and forwards between ‘why’s it so laborious to have a superb factor?’ and ‘is it so unhealthy to desire a good factor?’ Which is type of what I’m all the time asking myself – after I can’t get what I need or want, I’m simply so existentially annoyed. After which the second I do, I begin to have imposter syndrome, questioning if I deserve this $6 espresso.”
Why’s it so laborious to have a superb factor?
It must be simpler you’ll assume
You higher be wealthy and good trying
‘Trigger it’s so laborious to have a superb factor
“Clams On line casino” is the title monitor and thesis assertion of Dunne’s fourth album, out September 5th through Lacking Piece Information. Impressed by working-class blues and trendy malaise, the report asks what occurs after the dream fades – when the unhealthy guys have gained, and also you’re left attempting to salvage dignity, that means, and a bit pleasure on the dinner desk. “Total, I’m actually concerned about following my era by the completely different phases of life, narratively talking. The individuals in these songs are the identical individuals populating these songs on the final two albums – each these data are about millennial disillusionment. So this report is about what occurs after. To me, it’s in regards to the chasm between promoting out and shifting out,” Dunne says. “Ought to I keep or ought to I am going? The everlasting query.”
I’m simply attempting to have a superb life
Clams on line casino on a Sunday evening
Betting the home on a bottle of wine
I’m simply attempting to have a superb time
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good factor?
Don’t even let em catch you trying
Don’t let em see you get your foot in
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good factor?
‘Trigger all I need is just a bit bit extra
Is that a lot for me to ask for?
And clams on line casino on a Sunday evening
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good life?
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good life?
That stress is baked into each line of “Clams On line casino,” the place layered guitars, mushy synths, and a soulful vocal burn sluggish and regular. Dunne opens the tune in a spot of quiet frustration: “I’ve been attempting to have a superb life / However nobody desires you to be glad / They double the invoice and cut up the distinction / Go away you paying down the curiosity.” From there, the verses spiral deeper into the on a regular basis indignities of scraping by – “I purchased a mattress on the low cost retailer / I really feel like I’m sleeping on a concrete flooring.”
He finally hits his excessive within the tune’s spirited refrain – daring, buoyant, and brutally trustworthy: “Why’s it so laborious to have a superb factor? / It must be simpler, you’ll assume / You higher be wealthy and good trying / ’Trigger it’s so laborious to have a superb factor.”
Dunne explains how this tune got here very naturally to him, pushed by the title, which he had sitting in his pocket book for fairly a while, and all the time appreciated. The query was all the time when, not if he’d write this tune. “I felt like ‘Clams On line casino’ is what a working man thinks a wealthy man eats, and I felt like I may fold loads of story into that,” he shares. “This one got here fairly simple to me – the topics on this tune have been consuming at me in a very aggravating approach. I knew the second I wrote it that it was the course I wanted to go. I may simply see all of the characters enjoying out, like a film.”
She stated all you do is bitch and moan
You’re by no means completely satisfied and also you’re by no means house
Everybody desires what they don’t have
And you actually don’t have it half unhealthy
However child I’m attempting to specific myself
You understand the physician stated it’d assist
If I can launch a few of this stress
If I could make peace with this query
Dunne’s brilliance lies in his stability of humor and heaviness, irony and empathy. “I’m simply attempting to have a superb life / Clams on line casino on a Sunday evening / Betting the home on a bottle of wine / I’m simply attempting to have a superb time.” The imagery is wealthy and cinematic – a bit absurd, a bit tragic, and all too actual. Whether or not he’s dreaming of tiny luxuries or calling himself out mid-song, there’s a vulnerability right here that makes the entire thing hit tougher.
“The final verse is my favourite,” Dunne says. “A second character enters and eviscerates the argument as fully self-involved and ineffective.” She cuts by the noise with biting readability: “All you do is bitch and moan / You’re by no means completely satisfied and also you’re by no means house / Everybody desires what they don’t have / And you actually don’t have it half unhealthy.” It’s the form of mirror that stings – and it’s what retains this tune from collapsing underneath its personal weight.
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good factor?
Don’t even let em catch you trying
Don’t let em see you get your foot in
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good factor?
‘Trigger all I need is just a bit bit extra
Is that a lot for me to ask for?
And clams on line casino on a Sunday evening
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good life?
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good life?
Is it so unhealthy to desire a good life?
If his final album, 2023’s Loser on the Ropes, was about nonetheless being within the struggle, then Clams On line casino is what occurs when the ultimate bell rings and also you’re left choosing up the items. And but, there’s hope right here – not low-cost optimism, however hardened grace. “My intention for all my data has all the time been to make individuals really feel much less alone of their private struggles. However I needed to tackle a much bigger concern on this album and the way it trickles down (no pun meant) to at least one’s private points. Catching a break on this world is sort of unattainable,” Dunne says. “There’s a humiliation of riches on our planet and so they’re being hoarded by a bunch of lottery winners who don’t even know what they’ve.”
For anybody feeling a bit laborious up – for that means, cash, or a second of peace – “Clams On line casino” is a mirror and a balm. Dunne could also be calling himself out, however in doing so, he’s calling all of us in. And whereas I’ve by no means had clams on line casino, primarily based on this tune, it certain sounds good.
“Passenger”
by Glitterfox
Tright here’s a dreamy warmth that radiates from Glitterfox’s “Passenger” – the type that builds sluggish and regular, like neon reflections in a midnight window. It’s lush and cinematic, achingly intimate and dripping with want. The tune simmers in smoldering heat, mixing indie rock and Americana into one thing spellbinding and soul-stirring – a hypnotic journey by self-inquiry, longing, and the unusual consolation of letting go.
Avenue’s dim however I don’t thoughts the darkish
Ready on this boulevard
Doorways open and I take my ticket
Evening trip to town restrict
Take me there
Previous the light storefronts and homes
Sirens blare
Avenue’s empty however my head is crowded
The primary single off Glitterfox’s upcoming debut album decoder (out August 22 through Jealous Butcher Information), “Passenger” opens in a second of stillness: “Avenue’s dim however I don’t thoughts the darkish / Ready on this boulevard.” The world outdoors is likely to be silent, however inside, there’s motion – ideas stirring, feelings burning. “The tune begins with the story of an individual ready for the bus on a darkish and empty avenue at evening,” guitarist Andrea Walker shares. “When my ex and I have been collectively we shared a automobile, which meant I ended up driving the bus lots… That bus is totally enchanting at evening. There are two pink neon strip lights operating the size of it that made me really feel proper at house.”
It was these late-night bus rides that impressed Walker to assume greater – about destiny, free will, and the phantasm of management. “Perhaps my very own future is a bit like that #4 bus,” they mirror. “I’ve some autonomy… however so far as controlling the place the bus is definitely headed? I can’t see into the longer term. In that approach I’ll all the time be a passenger within the car of future. However greatest make certain I’m going to make absolutely the many of the trip I’ve been given.”
I’m only a passenger
Misplaced within the metropolis lights
A face on the quantity 4
Using at midnight
That metaphor pulses all through the monitor, captured in strains like “Take me there / Previous the light storefronts and homes… I’m only a passenger / Misplaced within the metropolis lights / A face on the quantity 4 / Using at midnight.” It’s a tune about give up – not in defeat, however in radical acceptance. Of who we’re, the place we’ve been, and what may lie forward.
Doorways open and I take my ticket
Evening trip to town restrict
Take me there
Previous the empty rail yards and fountains
Stars so pale
How am I gonna know after I’ve discovered it
I’m only a passenger
Misplaced within the metropolis lights
A face on the quantity 4
Using at midnight
Primarily based in Portland, Oregon, Glitterfox is the magnetic, genre-blurring undertaking of Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker – two longtime inventive and romantic companions who, regardless of just lately splitting after 12 years collectively, proceed to make music with unshakable emotional readability and connection. The band fashioned in Lengthy Seashore again in 2012 and constructed their repute the old style approach: Touring relentlessly, busking, and displaying up with uncooked coronary heart and unforgettable songs. Their sound blends storage rock, new wave, Americana, and dance – a collage of types made uniquely their very own by storytelling, sweat, and soul. Atwood Journal beforehand praised the band’s 2023 single “TV” as a “cathartic eruption of ache, exhaustion, and emotionally charged indie rock… a young tune stuffed with turbulence and turmoil, eager for a lightweight on the finish of this lengthy, darkish tunnel.”
Out in late August, Glitterfox’s decoder is already shaping as much as be a kaleidoscopic, deeply human debut – processing the aftermath of a long-term relationship with heat, wit, and full-bodied feeling. “We do that Fleetwood Mac trick,” frontperson Solange Igoa says, “the place you’re taking a very heavy matter however make it a dance tune.” In “Passenger,” that trick turns into magic: Glitterfox conjure a world that aches and glows directly, a trip you by no means wish to finish.
I’m only a passenger
Misplaced within the metropolis lights
A face on the quantity 4
Using at midnight
I’m only a passenger
Misplaced within the metropolis lights
A face on the quantity 4
Using at midnight
“Oh Extensive World”
by Mon Rovîa
Mon Rovîa’s soul-stirring songwriting doesn’t simply soothe – it invitations listeners to exhale, to mirror, to maintain shifting ahead. Launched in early Might, his tune “Oh Extensive World” is a quiet revelation: A mushy, stirring breath of contemporary air in a world that hardly ever lets us relaxation. It’s light however highly effective, serene however looking out – a soul-nourishing reminder that there’s nonetheless surprise, nonetheless goodness, nonetheless room to dream, even when all the things feels damaged.
Bother
By the rubble, of time
I’m feeling the burden of decline
By damaged mattress seams
Lies a hopeful dream
Theres a spot
To search out
Trying
By the window, unknown
At all the locations you could possibly go
And the extra you sit with it
The extra that you just stiffen
The extra your concern corrodes
Constructed on little greater than voice and guitar, “Oh Extensive World” glows with heat and intention. Mon’s efficiency is unvarnished and alive – his fingerpicked melodies pulsing like a heartbeat, his voice carrying the burden of hope and heaviness in equal measure. Small sounds develop into bigger than life in his fingers, and that’s a part of what makes this tune so shifting: It’s a testomony to the quiet energy of vulnerability, and the fantastic thing about our personal fragile humanity.
Ohh, this huge world of mine
Solely exists outdoors the strains
Ohh, this huge world of mine
You get what you give
In the event you resolve to attempt
“Ohh, this huge world of mine / Solely exists outdoors the strains / You get what you give / In the event you resolve to attempt,” Mon sings within the refrain – a mantra for anybody on the sting of concern, hesitation, or change. Every verse unfolds like a meditation, tracing moments of wrestle and doubt earlier than turning outward: “Trying by the window, unknown / At all the locations you could possibly go / And the extra you sit with it, the extra that you just stiffen / The extra your concern corrodes.”
Launched in partnership with To Write Love On Her Arms for Psychological Well being Consciousness Month, “Oh Extensive World” is deeply private for Mon Rovîa. “‘Oh Extensive World’ is a testomony to resilience and hope, urging listeners to step past concern into boundless alternative,” he shares. “In these difficult instances, this tune gently reminds us to embrace the world’s goodness. It displays the therapeutic energy of embracing one’s reality, particularly for me as a person navigating psychological well being struggles. It encourages me to exit, discover others who share these experiences, and proceed collectively – as a result of in case you don’t go, you’ll by no means know, and solely you may resolve to attempt.”
Shiver
‘Til thе river, runs out
Or comply with these whispering winds south
And what you thought a frightful drеam
Turns into one other factor
And your worries
Return to the clouds
Ohh, this huge world of mine
Solely exists, outdoors the strains
Ohh, this huge world of mine
You get what you give
In the event you, resolve to attempt
That message lands like a lifeline. As he sings within the closing verse, “What you thought a frightful dream turns into one other factor / And your worries return to the clouds.” It’s not about erasing the concern – it’s about selecting to maintain going, anyway.
A Liberia-born, Tennessee-based artist mixing Afro-Appalachian folks and indie sensibilities – and one among Atwood Journal’s 2025 artists to observe – Mon Rovîa has been constructing towards this second for years – fascinating audiences along with his heartfelt songwriting and breathtakingly trustworthy performances. “Oh Extensive World” looks like a quintessential expression of his artistry: openhearted, quietly defiant, and full of sunshine.
In a world that may really feel more and more disconnected and overwhelming, Mon Rovîa offers us a purpose to pause – to breathe, to consider, to start once more. We’d like extra songs like this. We’d like extra voices like his.
Ohh, this huge world of mine
Solely exists, outdoors the strains
Ohh, this huge world of mine
You get what you give
In the event you, resolve, to attempt
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