EDITORS’ RECOMMENDATIONS

Dandelions is the feel good emoshy song that makes you want to reach for the stars. The lyrics are positive affirmations and prayers. The beat is an energy booster. It’s not true that there are people that don’t like love songs. Cute.

Love her or hate her, Grimes is borderline genius and has the coolest song concepts. She is so cringe that it actually makes her cool. She played this one live at KEXP a long, long time ago, which is how I discovered it (and I have to say, it is actually better live). I heard in an interview that Grimes locked herself in her room with no light, limited food and zero sleep to record Visions, and honestly I think the delirium and insanity that came from that was the secret formula for this krabby patty of an album.

If you enjoy slow, beautiful and dark music, Daughter is the band you need to listen to. Shallows is so dreamy and dramatic. I love listening to it when I’m sitting outside on a gloomy, rainy day.

This was the song that gave me the courage to pursue what I was passionate about, when choosing my university course in Year 12. The lyrics offer a beautiful story about life, regret and acceptance. In an interview about the album of the same name, the lead singer said that we change minds often not through statistics or figures, but through storytelling. It’s sentimental, but hearing that changed my life - it felt so profound.