The hardest part of Maple Leaf March is the great music being made in the other 190-odd nations in the world.
And usually, if you look at my Spotify stats for March, my most listened to artist is almost always going to be Canadian.
Not this year.
2-10, absolutely Canadian.
#1 was an AMERICAN artist and I'm frankly a little surprised, but not a lot. My family would not be surprised, I would assume.
3 of my top 4 listened to songs in the last month are by one artist - Soccer Mommy.
And two of them are "Driver". Yeah, one of them is the stripped version from Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The third is this song, the opening track and 4th single from her experimental and groundbreaking 2020 album color theory, where she incorporated a bunch of chunky downstroked chords with a number of weird samples and unusual synth choices. They all work, by the way - the entire album is incredible, end-to-end, with this being my favorite of a great collection.
Hey, if you end up loving this song as much as I do, you can sing along with the official karaoke.
Anyway, you know we're coming at you with a couple of live versions, and this first one is something of a historic doozy. color theory was released at the end of February 2020. As part of the promotional tour, Soccer Mommy was supposed to do an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.
Then a pandemic happened. And, well, NPR stopped hosting these. However, they had the idea to have artists do these concerts from their own homes..... and THIS was the FIRST one, in March 2020.
"bloodstream" was the first song she played and it's beautiful in its acoustic format..
Live music did return, and this performance from 2021 of the song - with Sophie in a cape! - is one of my favorites, truly illustrating the chunky guitar rifts.
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