Max's Music Mondays with Eddington Again and 26fix
Letting the music speak for itself (aka brain is empty)
Welcome to Max’s Music Mondays - a ~music discovery newsletter~ where I get too excited about songs I love. I hope you love them too. If you do, follow along on spotify and please be sure to absolute smash that dang subscribe button! tysm :)
Well… it’s one of those weeks again. Where I have nothing profound (or even good) to say in the intro. So instead I try and think of something pithy that I will consider a “successful intro” without having to waste too much time.
Hmmm what to say what to say what to say.
Ok I’m coming up devastatingly blank. Which as a ~writer~ is totally a good and normal and celebrated and not one bit embarrassing thing (this is the pithy thing i was searching for…). Anyways, don’t know what else to say than I am so excited about these songs and generally feeling happy! Hope that’s enough to hold you over until Friday. Well that and the fucking incredible photoshop above (hold ur applause).
This Week’s Songs
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Eddington Again - Core 22
I mean this is irresistible. I know you feel it too. These programmed drums firing off with (carefully calculated) reckless abandon, eerie chords drifting in and out, a lighthouse on the horizon. Eddington Again’s vocals land over some more percussion, wood blocks and more cowbells(?) running all over the place. A calming presence over some delightful, but busy, bandmates. It all offers such lightness, has me smiling and swaying and floating through this Monday morning. Everything falls away, a quick moment of vocals and bass, it’s intimate, you can hear EA singing while making direct eye contact with you. Intense in a good way, but when the full production comes back, all that pressure fades and it’s just easy fun. Flowing into the chorus, “hit the core” a perfect rock to keep me grounded while the rest of the band keeps me dancing. Some amazing harmonies/layers carry on into the second verse. They’re really interesting, a nice texture that bends and falls in unexpected ways. Dropping out completely at the perfect moment, letting EA ask, “Baby what you got to prove?” with your full attention. A familiar passage returns before a third (second and a half?) verse with an incredible closing line to answer the last lyric, “quick life hack: don’t shield your face. you ain’t got nothing to prove”. It goes flying back into more offers to do whatever you want to, and idk how you’d possibly say no. Musically, the song is pulling me in so many directions. On the one hand, it feels cold and spacious - so many of the sounds almost feel wet?? But on the other hand, the lyrics are not cold at all, my god. Creating heat in a cold place, and filling this song with so much heart. Anyways, this section is so sweet and so catchy, a beautiful moment. As we cruise past two minutes, the drums take hold of everything, Eddington Again repeatedly asking/instructing to hit the core, the exact off-kilter ending I would want, leaving me wanting even more of this one. It’s got that hot and cold, but it also has this old and new feeling, future and vintage. It’s a beautiful song and just has in me a good mood, grateful for that.
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26fix - A Pickle
Out of nowhere, this song just fell into my lap and I’m so glad it did. Obviously, I’m a fool for a song titled ‘A Pickle’ but there’s so much more to enjoy while you’re here. Kicking things off with the bass lines of all bass lines. Popping off the track, that slight delay giving it so much character. That synth steals the intro, beeping and blooping its way up to the first verse. The whole track gets filtered, really just the drums that escape clean, but it’s a fun way to meet these vocals. As if the whole band steps outside at 0:50, the whole thing opens back up. Vocal layers sounding amazing, the bass line still powering on. Things take a stunning turn here, the guitar taking the lead with the cowbell alongside. A new melody, vocals floating through the ocean, the band finds this new feeling so naturally and I’m enjoying it. Things slowly disintegrate until we turn the page at 1:48. Another moment that feels entirely fresh. 26fix rolling off lyrics, stream of consciousness style, and it works. The lower layer of vocals is a bit haunting, rounding out the sound and emotion so well. Very impressed with how well this whole thing fits together, each chapter so different from the last. This one heads back to that little synth, playfully bopping along to the sweet melody carrying some heavy lyrics. The shouts over “you should be scared now” are working… Rocking out for another chorus before sliding into one last massive change. The whole thing mellows, with the drums as the focal point. That first snare rushing to get out and pulling the whole groove with it. Chords from the rest of the band are feeling very outer space to me. As 26fix returns to the mic, the bass finds its edge again. The vocals are longing for someone in this section, you can hear it in the lyrics and feel it in the delivery. As the moment continues, the background vocals grow stronger and bigger almost consuming the lead as they do. Some reversed sounds pull us further in, the snare’s hold on me as magnetic as ever as we ride it home. A song full of surprises, each more interesting than the last. A joy :)
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Another week another genuine joy to share incredible music. There’s so dang much of it and I have fun every single week remembering how true that is.
Okay brb busy eating pizza or whatever is a good ny thing to do.
Max