Artist: The Easter Parade
Song: “Sing Our Kids to Sleep”
Genres: #indierock #alternativerock
Influences: Matt Berninger, Salvador Sobral, Tom Waits.
Location: Kettering, United Kingdom
Release date: November, 2024
Comment: “Sing Our Kids to Sleep” is the kind of song that would start playing in a movie when the main character begins a long trip alone, either driving or by bus or train, on a rainy day, reminiscing about better times when their love interest hadn’t left them yet. Released today as the debut single for The Easter Parade, it is a song you won’t be able to ignore.
Matt Steven is a musician, producer, and songwriter hailing from Northamptonshire, UK. After a decade-long break from releasing original music, he’s now using The Easter Parade moniker to create music from his recording studio, Indigo Scala. For “Sing Our Kids to Sleep,” which was mostly recorded this past summer, he enlisted the help of the Betania Hernández String Quartet and mastering engineer Pete Maher. The result is a beautiful track with rich orchestration and honest artistry.
The Easter Parade‘s upcoming debut EP, Raindrops on the Lens, is certainly going to be well worth our attention.
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A beautiful anthemic song. Also an interesting choice of a name for his music project.
Haha yes, an interesting choice. Changing subjects, did you delete your Twitter account (I refuse to call it X)?
Yes. I no longer wanted to be a participant in the vile Elon Musk’s site.
I can’t blame you. He’s a prick and a vile human being indeed. By the way, I’m sorry about the election results. Hard to believe that after Trump’s first period, people thought that they wanted more of that!
I’ve come to the conclusion that America is not “special” or “exceptional”, just a big and powerful bully on the world stage, filled with ignorant, selfish, narrow-minded people with a massive sense of entitlement. Trump merely reflects who they are.
I’m subscribed to the newsletter of an American journalist (he’s mostly a sportswriter, but from time to time he writes about other stuff, including music, and he always has interesting opinions aligned with the way I think) called Keith Law, and he wrote this after the results: “What I can tell you is that the results have completely disillusioned me about the country and the majority of the people who live in it. I have long believed that the long-term arrow for the United States always pointed up. Progress would be nonlinear, characterized by fits and starts, but we would never choose as a country to go backwards, to roll back progress made over decades, at the cost of lives and livelihoods. I also believed that kindness and empathy towards others were fundamentally American values – it’s on the Statue of Liberty, after all. And while I am not religious, I know that those values are a core part of the stated religion of a majority of Americans. I no longer believe those things: Over 70 million Americans looked at Donald Trump, at his history in office, his words, and his actions, and they made an affirmative and unequivocal choice. “
Thanks for sharing this Horacio. Keith beautifully articulates my own sentiments.