Anastasia K: French electro pop
This month, I’ve been obsessed with French electro pop. And, thanks to the magic of the YouTube recommendations vortex, I discovered a lot of great stuff. Here’s some of it:
Un Amour au Super U is cute and unassuming, just like un amour au Super U should be. Je kiffe;
Agitations Tropicales transports me to an unmapped tropical island with loads of fruit, friendly herbivorous animals and zero people except for maybe a someone to ward off yucky jellyfish, plus a couple of tacos chefs, all living on the other end of said island;
And Instantané, which I imagine what Adrien from François Ozon’s Frantz would be listening to if he lived in the present day. (Honorable mention also goes to Paradis’s Recto Verso, but with three songs of the month already, I feel like I’m majorly stretching it.)
Anna H: A children song to make adults smile
When I was little, my favorite LP (a vinyl record) was a collection of children’s songs performed by a husband-and-wife duo the Nikitins. The song that always made me smile was about a father elephant, a mother elephant and a baby elephant who got tired of living at the zoo and embarked on an adventure in a rowboat. They spent some wonderful time with a family of dolphins and after a delicious dinner of seaweeds came back full of new impressions and new dreams. Now I get to sing it with my son, and it still makes smile every time. Here’s to new adventures and new dreams (and reconnecting with your inner child)!
Vadim G: Linger Longer by Cosmo Sheldrake
To me, the vivacious Linger Longer by the enormously talented multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake (who also has the coolest-sounding name in the known universe) is the perfect ode to late spring. It’s a song about rewilding – the process of letting nature once again take over what was once a wild territory, – and what season could be more fitting than spring, a time of growth and revival? With Sheldrake’s signature mixture of classic, modern, and straight up bizarre, Linger Longer produces an irresistible frisson of sound and emotion.
Anastasiia L: Hospital by The Modern Lovers
I first heard this song in the 2018 coming-of-age drama Hot Summer Nights, and I can’t let go of it ever since. There’s just something about the music and the lyrics that resonates with me, even though I can’t really tell what it is.
Eagerly awaiting May holidays to bask in all this musical greatness non-stop,
ITMO.NEWS Editorial Team
