Spencer Griffin's New Music Mondays

 here they are: "Chance to Bleed" by Kurt Vile:  Most of Kurt Vile's material could loosely be classified as folk-rock. His latest song, "Chance to Bleed," kind of is, but it has a more palpable rock "edge" to it. Seems slightly more evocative of the "slacker rock" sounds of Pavement, Guided by Voices, or Dinosaur Jr. Even the godfather of alt-rock himself, Lou Reed, seems like he influenced this song, since Kurt laconically "sing-speaks" during some of it. A clever rhyme of "old time, lo-fi, DIY, rock 'n' roll nights" caps off the chorus, and I feel like this more or less defines what the song is! It's a song meant to capture the spirit of what "indie" was originally meant to be, and it does so, both in sound and lyric! "Going Gone" by Josiah and The Bonnevilles:  Yet another song in G sharp major with a slight "slacker" vibe, this song doesn't have the fuzzy distortion of the...

 It's the last day of the year, and we have 8 brand new songs! Here they are: "Bug Like an Angel" by Mitski: Perhaps the first Mitski song to dip into folk-rock territory, "Bug Like an Angel" continues to add new dimension and depth to Mitski's already eclectic catalog! "Bug Like an Angel" is a rather cryptic metaphor, but the "angel" part seems to refer to death by either drinking or overindulgence. The song is fittingly melancholy for one that has such a depressing theme, but ultimately more bittersweet than bitter. It manages to carry itself in a major key rather than a minor one, but it's still quite powerful! There is also religious imagery woven into the song, particularly at the end when Mitski says, "I try to remember the wrath of the devil was also given to him by God." Again, it's hard to make out exactly what Mitski means here, but my best guess is that the presumably now dead person being addressed in the son...

 Day late, I realize, but better late than never, right? Here are three songs for this week you might wanna check out! "All I Really Wanna Do" by Devon Gilfillian: Not to be confused with the Bob Dylan song of the same name, "All I Really Wanna Do," the latest song from neo-soul musician, Devon Gilfillian, is an interesting one, both musically and lyrically. In terms of the song's musical aspects, it maintains a lot of the vintage soul sound that Devon has cultivated over the course of his career so far, sounding like an R & B song from roughly between the early and mid 1970's, even though it isn't from that era. It's lyrically that the song is really interesting, though. The song encourages people to just be themselves when it comes to pursuing romantic relationships, and the song's creative video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFMHcsHd1hk) takes it a step further with an animated version of Devon becoming attracted to a "babe-lien...