#brkn

- The Moon Will Sing - The Crane Wives | fits one of my OTPs very well and like, just listen to it? the flow, the lyrics, the melody - kinda love at first listen. - Curses - The Crane Wives | another banger, very catchy beat imo and of coure the lyrics. - Allies or Enemies - The Crane Wives | was/is still fitting to personal circumstances, also enjoy the flow/melody. - Zukunft Pink - Peter Fox ft. Inéz | german! was pretty popular in 2023 and as most things by Peter Fox the lyrics are #deep (no seriously, you can also find a fun diss at Elongated Muskrat in there) - Nachbeben - Alligatoah | german! another #deep song that tackles our exposure to the increasingly toxic social media landscape and what it does to our heads, also the music video and beat! - WEISSE ZÄHNE - Alligatoah ft. Bausa | german! two of my fav rappers, Alligatoah tried his hands at a heavy metal rap album and while it's def not 100% real metal, much less heavy there were some great songs on it and this is one of them. about eerily fake people and their perfectly 'white teeth'. IRL fitting. - A Dangerous Thing - AURORA | everything she puts out is great in some way or another, it's just that this applied IRL so it's on this list. - Espresso - Good Neighbours (cover of Sabrina Carpenter's) | I wasn't too hooked on the original and after landing on Sabrina's cover of 'Good Luck, Babe!' I ventured out to see if there were any covers of her songs and jfc, it's so... catchy? so very different? very 2010ish vibes. - The Night We Met - Lord Huron | according to Youtube Wrapped I listened to this song over 9k times and that's kinda concerning. not sure how that happened but suddendly I could only listen to this song. also fits one of my OTPs and I'm still super into them so... well, how about a comeback? been a while. - Heavy - Linkin Park ft. Kiiara | personally fitting. - Neunzig - Apache 207 | german! just a fun song that doesn't take itself that serious. - Was weißt du schon - Apache 207 | german! about growing up and living in a certain way of poverty, our 'ghettos' are called blocks (der Block) and it's specifically refering to those 8+ stories tall buildings that are mostly social welfare apartments. tiny, dingy, crowded, crime, foreigners, immigrants - you know. - Therapie - BRKN | german! for one I love his voice and secondly, the theme/subject fits my reallife. about admitting your not doing well mentally, slowly becoming a bit unhinged, recognizing your own toxic traits and even becoming more toxic towards your partner. well, it's called 'therapy' after all. - 100km/h - Bausa | german! about sticking together through tough times, about the ups and downs in life, not recognizing yourself after a while, yearning for love. again fitting. and I LOVE the harp in this, it's a special version and I def like this over the og version. and another case of 'the voice' for me. - Bullet - Hollywood Undead | this definitly got ample playtime in 2024. - Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan | this was what got me hooked, I only started listening to her on the literal last day of August and then she took over my playlists. her voice is just... WOW. the vibrato, the flips, her range, everything! especially the way most of her songs are very 80s/90s vibe-ish which is just my thing. - Red Wine Supernova - Chappell Roan | already wrote a paragraph, also listen to her live recordings because those studio records don't do her voice justice. - My Kink Is Karma - Chappell Roan | didn't hook me at first but then it just clicked. can't never not do the 'YOU' flip when I listen to it. - Too Sweet - Hozier | at first I completly got the message of that one wrong, took me a few listens to go 'uh wait a sec lmao'. regardless, this year I fell down the Hozier rabbit hole and jfc, I missed out on so much! not sure why I didn't follow him after 'Take Me To Church' came out because THAT definitely had me hooked back then. also IRL applicable. - Nobody's Solider - Hozier | great song with a strong message. I'm sure there'll be more Hozier on my playlist this year.

Honorable mentons: - Caravan Palace, just got into them again oof ♥ electro swing, that direction if you're inclined - Lone Digger - Caravan Palace (I believe I've read that they're doing pretty much all of their sound effects themselves and not with sampling etc? also they sound SO GOOD live.) - Hozier in general, the music feels very healing? personal? idk but it's nice to listen to, like really listen to the messages of the songs. - anything AURORA, same as for Hozier but her music just feels good and her approaching so many different issues and topics with her songs ♥