I find this song very spiritual. It connects to some deep well within me. Love it when a song does that!
Creature (Perfect) in particular speaks to my inner child, "I don't have to be perfect" is definitely not something I internalized as a kid.
I also love the poetry of the lyrics -- first they relax me into a "deep blue sea" so that by the end, I'm open to the vulnerability required to look lovingly at "my bad poems, my soft belly", let alone to cast back in time to remember "my childhood prayers". Talk about taking an unflinching look at yourself!
But Ibeyi scoops you right back up with the chorus reminding you that you're just a creature, after all.

Holy - Jamila Woods

Throwback to Jamila Woods' debut album, HEAVN. As with her most recent work, Water Made Us, her debut is packed tail to tip with beautiful, thoughtful bangers. Woods is easily one of my favorite lyricists. She is truly giving us poetry set to awsome music. All her music is available free on SoundCloud or you can find her records on Bandcamp!

landline - Arlie

I was recently listening to my SoundCloud likes on shuffle and there were several forgotten gems among them, but this is the one that's been stuck in my head.

I found this bop when I was in my daily drop soundcloud playlist era. I would listen through the curated list of newly uploaded tracks and put the ones I likes on a playlist called "now" which was my everyday listen. When I got sick of a song, I moved it to a list called "then" which became an archive of all these random songs I'd been mildly obsessed with. Sadly, soundcloud doesnt make the daily drop playlist anymore so the experiment ended, but the resulting playlist is a pretty sweet retrospective filled with bangers.

As for Arlie, I know nothing about this artist except for this song! But landline is charming and light, very much a summer song to me. And I get the fantasy of ditching the little lightbox of wonder and misery. Maybe instead of getting a landline though, I'll just take walks and leave my phone at home...