Songs You May Have Missed #852

10 Jul 2026 Leave a comment

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Manu Chao: “Tu Te Vas” (2024)

Listening to 2024’s Viva Tu is a bit dizzying: Spanish, French and English, all within the first three songs of Manu Chao’s 2024 release. A half-dozen languages across an album that mixes the personal and the political, the intimate and the anthemic.

Remarkably, it was the singer’s first studio album in 17 years, but his unique formula remained intact, much to the appreciation of fans he’d kept waiting for new material.

See also: Songs You May Have Missed #760 | Every Moment Has A Song

Songs You May Have Missed #851

10 Jul 2026 Leave a comment

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Connie Converse: “House” (2026)

We elsewhere told the tale of singular folk songwriter Connie Converse, her inspired music, disappointing career and mysterious disappearance.

To the 2026 reissue of her How Sad, How Lovely album was added this bonus, previously unreleased track.

It’s one more example of her lyrical gift, and a heartfelt reminder of all the things “home” can mean.

See also: Recommended Albums #110 | Every Moment Has A Song

Songs You May Have Missed #850

03 Jul 2026 Leave a comment

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Talk: “Run Away to Mars” (2021)

Canadian Nicholas Durocher, professionally known as Talk, specializes in soaring, emotionally-charged choruses and songs about isolation and disconnectedness.

During a COVID-era stint as an out of work musician living in his parents’ basement, a lonely, depressed Durocher wrote “Run Away to Mars” after watching the movie Interstellar.

The song went viral on TikTok a year after its release. It appears on Talk’s 2023 debut album, Lord of the Flies & Birds & Bees, which was nominated for multiple Juno Awards.

Durocher, ironically, has connected with a large audience by singing about feeling disconnected, and become a star by continuing to sing like that young man in his parents’ basement.

Songs You May Have Missed #849

03 Jul 2026 Leave a comment

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The Flashing Lights: “Summertime Climb” (1999)

Led by singer/guitarist Matt Murphy, this Canadian foursome’s roots as a 60’s cover band showed on their independently released 1999 debut.

The sound of power pop is definitely the sound of summer.

Songs You May Have Missed #848

26 Jun 2026 Leave a comment

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Madison Beer: “Lovergirl” (2026)

Madison Beer first achieved notice when Justin Bieber shared link to her singing a cover of “At Last” at age 13.

Three albums into her career the Long Island native has established herself as a first-rate songwriter, albeit one whose singles and albums routinely perform better outside her native US.

After four singles were released from her 2026 locket LP, the melancholy “Lovergirl” was the lead single from the album’s deluxe edition.

Songs You May Have Missed #847

06 Jun 2026 Leave a comment

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Amazing Blondel: “Three Seasons Almaine” (1971)

Amazing Blondel took their unique Classicist Renaissance blend a step further on 1971’s Fantasia Lindum LP than on the previous year’s Evensong.

The album’s title track was a 10-section, 20-minute suite (or fantasia) that comprised the album’s entire first side.

Harpsichord, recorder, lute, harmonium and dulcimer adorned lyrics about leafy lanes, lovers and lasses, woodsmen, ploughboys and verdant countrysides, sung in unapologetically English accents.

The phrase “baroque pop” is thrown around, even in this blog, to describe contemporary pop songs onto which is grafted some antique instrumentation.

Amazing Blondel deserves the description–like no other.

See also: Recommended Albums #98 | Every Moment Has A Song

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