Atwood Journal is worked up 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 pay attention. Via our Editor’s Picks, we hope to shine a light-weight 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 be aware – 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 delicate 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-Could, “Sugar” units the tone for the LA-based artist’s extremely anticipated sophomore album When Are You Leaving?, out October 10th through Partisan Data, and marks a robust step ahead – not simply musically, however emotionally.
“My first album largely 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 inside 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 they’d healed – written with their previous and current our bodies in thoughts. “Feeling Like a Lady These days” toed an oh-so-thin line “between empowerment and dysphoria,” as they candidly expressed on the time.
In distinction to their first document, there’s a self-assuredness permeating NoSo’s current music in addition to their emotional headspace. “This document 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 concerning the delicate dance of interacting with risky, 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 means 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, dwelling 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 additionally conviction and readability; a reclaiming of energy by gentleness, slightly than retaliation.
If Keep Happy with Me was NoSo letting us into their goals, 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 absolutely of their aspect, pushing ahead with out compromise. It’s gorgeous progress in movement – and if that is any indication, what’s coming subsequent will probably 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 making an attempt to chop again on sugar in my 30s, however NoSo’s making it actually tough. Take into account 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 completely immersive. It’s bluesy and nostalgic, tender and turbulent. And James Smith, a person blessed with what should be one of the vital 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 wanting again on the summer season nights
When life felt so a lot better
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t stop remembering
The best way that you simply transfer child
Again once 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)” appears 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 few time a few summers in the past, when my associate and I’d 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 while 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 stop remembering the best way that you simply transfer, child. Again once 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
May 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 really 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 document.”
Fittingly, the tune was recorded dwell in a single take at London’s legendary Konk Studios. “I didn’t actually have an strategy with the tune initially – it kind 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 wished to provide 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 information have been recorded there. ‘Dancing with You’ ended up being one dwell take within the studio – and I’m tremendous, tremendous pleased with how old style and funky it was to document like that!”
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t stop remembering
The best way that you simply transfer child
Again once 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 artistic evolution. “Lower than a 12 months and I’m again within the recreation already!” he laughs. “I completely love that document, nevertheless it appears 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 firstly of the 12 months, and that was probably the greatest experiences of my life, so I’m tremendous grateful for it.”
He continues, “I wished to make a fast ‘comeback’ as a result of I’ve SO a lot music. I’m continuously 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 mild, but dramatic; grounded, but hovering. A love tune and a lovesick tune multi functional. “I’d say it might exist as each,” Smith displays. “I’d hope that listeners can really feel the hassle that goes into creating actual music with actual musicians by actual studio gear! This isn’t no AI / Laptop computer music. It’s tremendous difficult, however clearly sounds actually easy. I’m making an attempt to do issues old style 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 finest. And as Smith himself places it – with a wink wink, nudge nudge – “I’m an East Londoner with so much 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 lovely guitar line.
Dancing with you child
Oh I simply can’t stop remembering
The best way that you simply transfer child
Again once 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 suddenly: An indie rock-Americana hybrid that hits with equal components 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 simply 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 like 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’ lately launched third studio album and her first made in a correct studio with a full band. Out now through Invada Data, Metalhorse departs from the stark post-punk of previous information 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 few 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 battle to maintain going.
“They inform you 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 internal hearth.
“First line that I wrote that you simply 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 while you’re already down.
Subsequent time that I discover you in my room
On the lookout for one thing that you could possibly use
I can’t actually hеlp you in case you acquired no concepts
You would possibly simply must settlе
For getting outdated 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?
Properly I acquired one thing going
And also you simply sit and grin
Inform all of them I’m loopy
And hope it sinks my ship
You like 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 demise and following a private MS prognosis, 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 this planet,” Maries says of the bond she shared together with her father. Even in the course of 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 like 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 dangerous 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 should 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 – looking for sweetness within the stress, and lightweight in the course of the wreckage.
I’ve been making an attempt to have a great life
However nobody desires you to be glad
They double the invoice and break 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 assume you get what you pay for
“I’ve each loads of class satisfaction and loads of class disgrace,” Dunne, a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, member of folks rock supergroup Implausible Cat, and longtime favourite of our pages, tells Atwood Journal. “The story form of ping pongs forwards and backwards between ‘why’s it so laborious to have a great factor?’ and ‘is it so dangerous to desire a good factor?’ Which is kind of what I’m at all times asking myself – once I can’t get what I would like 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 great factor?
It must be simpler you’d suppose
You higher be wealthy and good wanting
‘Trigger it’s so laborious to have a great factor
“Clams On line casino” is the title monitor and thesis assertion of Dunne’s fourth album, out September 5th through Lacking Piece Data. Impressed by working-class blues and trendy malaise, the document asks what occurs after the dream fades – when the dangerous guys have gained, and also you’re left making an attempt to salvage dignity, which means, and slightly pleasure on the dinner desk. “Total, I’m actually concerned with following my technology by the totally 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 information are about millennial disillusionment. So this document is about what occurs after. To me, it’s concerning the chasm between promoting out and shifting out,” Dunne says. “Ought to I keep or ought to I’m going? The everlasting query.”
I’m simply making an attempt to have a great life
Clams on line casino on a Sunday night time
Betting the home on a bottle of wine
I’m simply making an attempt to have a great time
Is it so dangerous to desire a good factor?
Don’t even let em catch you wanting
Don’t let em see you get your foot in
Is it so dangerous to desire a good factor?
‘Trigger all I would like is just a bit bit extra
Is that a lot for me to ask for?
And clams on line casino on a Sunday night time
Is it so dangerous to desire a good life?
Is it so dangerous to desire a good life?
That stress is baked into each line of “Clams On line casino,” the place layered guitars, tender synths, and a soulful vocal burn gradual and regular. Dunne opens the tune in a spot of quiet frustration: “I’ve been making an attempt to have a great life / However nobody desires you to be glad / They double the invoice and break 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 great factor? / It must be simpler, you’d suppose / You higher be wealthy and good wanting / ’Trigger it’s so laborious to have a great 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 at all times favored. The query was at all times 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 themes on this tune have been consuming at me in a very aggravating means. 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 comfortable and also you’re by no means dwelling
Everybody desires what they don’t have
And you actually don’t have it half dangerous
However child I’m making an attempt to precise myself
You recognize 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 making an attempt to have a great life / Clams on line casino on a Sunday night time / Betting the home on a bottle of wine / I’m simply making an attempt to have a great time.” The imagery is wealthy and cinematic – slightly absurd, slightly 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 more durable.
“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 comfortable and also you’re by no means dwelling / Everybody desires what they don’t have / And you actually don’t have it half dangerous.” It’s the form of mirror that stings – and it’s what retains this tune from collapsing below its personal weight.
Is it so dangerous to desire a good factor?
Don’t even let em catch you wanting
Don’t let em see you get your foot in
Is it so dangerous to desire a good factor?
‘Trigger all I would like is just a bit bit extra
Is that a lot for me to ask for?
And clams on line casino on a Sunday night time
Is it so dangerous to desire a good life?
Is it so dangerous to desire a good life?
Is it so dangerous to desire a good life?
If his final album, 2023’s Loser on the Ropes, was about nonetheless being within the battle, then Clams On line casino is what occurs when the ultimate bell rings and also you’re left selecting up the items. And but, there’s hope right here – not low-cost optimism, however hardened grace. “My intention for all my information has at all times been to make individuals really feel much less alone of their private struggles. However I wished to tackle an even bigger problem on this album and the way it trickles down (no pun supposed) to 1’s private points. Catching a break on this world is almost unimaginable,” 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 slightly laborious up – for which 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 positive sounds good.
“Passenger”
by Glitterfox
Tright here’s a dreamy warmth that radiates from Glitterfox’s “Passenger” – the type that builds gradual 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.
Road’s dim however I don’t thoughts the darkish
Ready on this boulevard
Doorways open and I take my ticket
Night time journey to town restrict
Take me there
Previous the light storefronts and homes
Sirens blare
Road’s empty however my head is crowded
The primary single off Glitterfox’s upcoming debut album decoder (out August 22 through Jealous Butcher Data), “Passenger” opens in a second of stillness: “Road’s dim however I don’t thoughts the darkish / Ready on this boulevard.” The world exterior is perhaps 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 night time,” guitarist Andrea Walker shares. “When my ex and I have been collectively we shared a automotive, which meant I ended up driving the bus so much… That bus is totally enchanting at night time. There are two pink neon strip lights working the size of it that made me really feel proper at dwelling.”
It was these late-night bus rides that impressed Walker to suppose 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 long run. In that means I’ll at all times be a passenger within the automobile of future. However finest ensure I’m going to make absolutely the many of the journey 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 would possibly lie forward.
Doorways open and I take my ticket
Night time journey to town restrict
Take me there
Previous the empty rail yards and fountains
Stars so pale
How am I gonna know once I’ve discovered it
I’m only a passenger
Misplaced within the metropolis lights
A face on the quantity 4
Using at midnight
Based mostly in Portland, Oregon, Glitterfox is the magnetic, genre-blurring undertaking of Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker – two longtime artistic and romantic companions who, regardless of 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 fame the old style means: Touring relentlessly, busking, and exhibiting up with uncooked coronary heart and unforgettable songs. Their sound blends storage rock, new wave, Americana, and dance – a collage of kinds 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 filled with turbulence and turmoil, eager for a light-weight 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 are taking a extremely heavy subject however make it a dance tune.” In “Passenger,” that trick turns into magic: Glitterfox conjure a world that aches and glows directly, a journey you by no means need 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 Vast 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 Could, his tune “Oh Vast World” is a quiet revelation: A tender, stirring breath of contemporary air in a world that hardly ever lets us relaxation. It’s mild however highly effective, serene however looking out – a soul-nourishing reminder that there’s nonetheless marvel, nonetheless goodness, nonetheless room to dream, even when every thing feels damaged.
Hassle
Via the rubble, of time
I’m feeling the burden of decline
Via damaged mattress seams
Lies a hopeful dream
Theres a spot
To seek out
Trying
Via the window, unknown
At all the locations you could possibly go
And the extra you sit with it
The extra that you simply stiffen
The extra your worry corrodes
Constructed on little greater than voice and guitar, “Oh Vast 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 great thing about our personal fragile humanity.
Ohh, this large world of mine
Solely exists exterior the strains
Ohh, this large world of mine
You get what you give
Should you resolve to strive
“Ohh, this large world of mine / Solely exists exterior the strains / You get what you give / Should you resolve to strive,” Mon sings within the refrain – a mantra for anybody on the sting of worry, 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 simply stiffen / The extra your worry corrodes.”
Launched in partnership with To Write Love On Her Arms for Psychological Well being Consciousness Month, “Oh Vast World” is deeply private for Mon Rovîa. “‘Oh Vast World’ is a testomony to resilience and hope, urging listeners to step past worry 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 fact, 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 strive.”
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 large world of mine
Solely exists, exterior the strains
Ohh, this large world of mine
You get what you give
Should you, resolve to strive
That message lands like a lifeline. As he sings within the last 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 worry – it’s about selecting to maintain going, anyway.
A Liberia-born, Tennessee-based artist mixing Afro-Appalachian people and indie sensibilities – and considered one of Atwood Journal’s 2025 artists to observe – Mon Rovîa has been constructing towards this second for years – fascinating audiences together with his heartfelt songwriting and breathtakingly trustworthy performances. “Oh Vast World” appears 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 want extra songs like this. We want extra voices like his.
Ohh, this large world of mine
Solely exists, exterior the strains
Ohh, this large world of mine
You get what you give
Should you, resolve, to strive
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