new music! Smiling – “Shotgun”

FFO: Frankie Cosmos, Karl Oskar, Pavement

Smiling announced their signing with Norwegian indielabel Banditt Media in early January, along with it the release of the first single from the band’s third album. Like most Smiling-tunes “Shotgun” remains simplistic at its core but sonically interesting throughout. Wonderful music that stems from emotion and exudes charm in its production – from the tiny synths appearing left and right to the shaking percussion appearing out of nowhere – all culminating in a truly pleasant track. Its charm doesn’t end with the music, the text is clever and vividly descriptive of the narrator’s feeling of their own stupid little brain. A lovely tune that you need to check out.

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This reminds me that I heard the song “Shotgun” by George Ezra while in the car with buddies of mine, stumped at its own kind of stupidity. This is by far the superior “Shotgun” (by a lot a lot a lot a lot) – but if anyone knows what a homegrown alligator is please contact me at milo@thesound.se thank you I would like to know. The Genius annotation just says that it is a play on “see you later alligator”, like no shit? Ok that will be all. That song is truly unpleasant – the antithesis of the LOVELY Smiling track.