Yay to the third volume of our Best Indie Folk of 2024 playlist (Acoustic, Indie, Folk). Part of the Best of 2024 YT playlist: bit.ly/4jbpUxo Out on album: best-indie-folk-of-2024.sbmt.to 🎶 Tracklist & Song Meaning: 0:00 Driftwood Choir - Way Back Home "There is a universal feeling that time moves on without you and your struggles are your own. Still, you're going to find your way back to something peaceful whenever the turmoil you’re going through comes to an end." 3:19 Ocie Elliott - These Days These Days is simply a song about missing someone very dear to you who is no longer in your life. 6:16 Hunter Metts - Weathervane This song is about the positive aspects of an honest love. It's about always making it through whatever life throws at you, and trusting that home doesn't always have to be a physical space, but that home can be a person too. 9:53 SYML - Please Slow Down (Rubber Bridge Version) I say the words ‘please slow down’ to my kids at least once a day, and even though we try to put walls up to keep them safe, they are wild and will eventually experience life on their own terms. The cliche idea of time passing too fast is a familiar one, especially around parenting kids, and this song is as much for me as it is them. 12:33 Harrison Storm - Temporary Friend Temporary Friend speaks to the fleeting moments you have while travelling and meeting those people that you share a unique and specific connection with, only to never see them again. Here Harrison is reflecting on the intense and interesting things you learn about someone’s story, the deep conversations into the early hours of the morning, and the vulnerability that can be revealed from those encounters. 15:33 Ben Morgan - Clockwork This song is about falling into the arms of the universe. It’s an ode to being present and enjoying every moment of the journey rather than focusing on the end goal, as one day the clock will inevitably stop ticking. 19:42 Hazlett - Shiver I think to some extent whatever path we take life has a funny way of taking us to our destination anyway. But that only happens when we’re led by our gut, we have good intentions and we’re not scared to make the wrong choice. Sometimes it is just about choosing a door to open and being irrationally confident that the universe will guide you to where you need to go either way. 23:07 Salt Tree - Take My Hand This song is about sharing life with someone through experiences of adventure and exploring new landscapes. It encourages you to be curious and open minded about what you might find with the person you love. 26:22 Jessie Reid - Your Story This song is about the beauty in telling our stories to complete strangers. 29:53 Rod Coote - Blue Lake This song is about the ever changing nature of life and how nothing is set in stone through the seasons. It was inspired by a road trip through wilderness of North America and a conversation with a life long friend. 32:51 Riley Pearce & Savannah Conley - Human Riley says: I wanted a song that somewhat captures the spiritual change I was going through. It was an indescribable shift or presence that suddenly made my life’s purpose feel more visible or tangible to me. I’ve always felt a bit uneasy in music about how self-focused it has to be at times and this new life that we’d brought into the world (by ‘we’ I mean my extraordinary wife Alex) had created such an incredible energy shift that made me feel more connected to what it meant to be a human in this world. 35:40 Amistat - Goodbye ✨ This playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3DOe5gI & album out everywhere: best-indie-folk-of-2024.sbmt.to 38:23 David Lazarus - Leading Different Lives This song is about the bittersweet process of letting someone go. It's about believing you found your person, but on reflection - realising it was the idea of them you were romanticising. In reality, you were both on very different paths in life. 41:16 Chris Lanzon - Lilo This song is about always being there for the people you care about. Even if they’re distant. Even if there’s so much about them that you don’t know, or don’t understand. Even if it hurts, you’ll show up when they need you, no matter what. 42:54 Chan Fuze - Palm This song is about a giving your heart away to someone who won’t see you. There’s a profound sense of loneliness when your love isn’t acknowledged so in turn it burns you. This is the price we pay for love. 48:19 Old Sea Brigade - Polygraph This is a song all about the fear of the unknown and how that can manifest into anxiety. It's about when you take a big step into a new phase in your life when those big changes actually happen, and you suddenly freak out and wonder… ‘was this the right step?’ but you feel bad for even thinking that. ‘Polygraph’ is about riding that out, letting it pass, and is meant to be an antidote to all that, to remind you... you don't have to slow-dance with the next thought you have. 52:36 Mot Furu - lakebed This song is about two friends or partners who are resting at the bottom of a lake. This can symbolize hitting one's rock bottom, or in this case 'lakebed', in life. However, the beauty and consolation come from not having to be alone in that state. 56:14 mid70s - Tire Swing This song is about a magical dream relationship. 58:55 Southey - I Know The Way I wanted to capture the feeling of finding direction in uncertain times. This song is about offering a hand to those who might need it. 1:03:29 Ella Stallion - Permanent Stay This song is about leaving it all to find a ‘Permanent Stay’ in the wild. I know I'll be sleeping on my own, out where the fox and rabbit roam. 1:07:07 Jakob Longfield - Daydreams (with M) This song is about having big dreams while feeling anxious and worried about what might happen to them. 1:10:33 Jordan Hart - Soft Eyes This song is for the people who hold us even when we feel like we don’t deserve it. When it’s difficult to feel normal let alone present, these people remind us that we’re not alone. To know love like that is surely one of the greatest gifts in life. 1:13:14 Caleb Hearn - Get There When I Get There I think a lot of people feel pressured to follow social norms or reach certain milestones by a particular age. But for me it’s much more important to live in the moment and enjoy the process of getting where I want to go. Because if you’re not feeling that joy, then I’m not sure it’s worth it. 1:16:09 Hunter Metts - Don't Fail Me Now This song about a significant other falling short of the expectations - emphasizing the feeling of having to sit with the pain of the relationship rather than feeling nothing at all. 1:18:51 Cody Francis & Ben Reneer - If You Want To This song is about the potential of a relationship to blossom and bloom into something beautiful while still affording the other person the option to turn it down. But that, If they want to, the perspective of the person singing is 100% in to try. 1:22:14 Alexander Grandjean - Babylon This song is about love and decay: It talks about human destruction of the planet. About closing our eyes and wishing ourselves back where we belong, where gardens hang like Babylon. 1:25:52 Luna Keller - Lighter Than Before This song is about the joy of feeling like yourself again after overcoming a tough time. The sun feels warmer after a long winter - I wrote it while recovering from depression, it was nice to write a happy song again. 1:29:39 Doris Club - Born Good Find out all about Indie Folk Central here: ifc.sbmt.to 🔔 Subscribe for more music just like this www.youtube.com/@indiefolkcentralMusic?sub_confirmation=1 1:32:09 Cole Scheifele & Raquel Norland - Back to Me This song is about the process of losing someone and the difficult journey of coming to a place of acceptance, but part of you through it all always hopes they will find their way back to you. 1:36:00 June Amiss - None At All This song is about trying to be everything and ending up becoming nothing at all. 1:38:42 Lapwing - Naseby Park This song captures a beautiful moment of connection between a father and son, and the sudden, haunting awareness of the passing of time. 1:41:49 Tobias Arbo - Recover This song is about opening up again after having been closed off for a long time. It's narrated from an 'angel on the shoulder perspective', trying to break oneself free from the invisible self-criticism we so easily amp up over time. 1:44:21 Mark Wilkinson & William Fitzsimmons - Movie Scene - Acoustic Movie scene is written about a relationship between two friends where one person secretly hopes the friendship will develop into something more romantic but lacks the confidence to air those feelings. Instead of confessing his true feelings, the friend resigns himself to playing out fictional scenarios (Movie Scenes) in his head to avoid the risk of rejection. 1:47:36 Virens - apocalypse This song is about the beginnings of a love story amid the chaos of an apocalypse, finding joy in our ordinary lives, despite the looming threat of oblivion. 1:50:26 Wild Rivers - Simp Song 1:53:27 Connor Stephen - Mr Know It All This song is about overcoming relational torment and insecurities through admittance and forgiveness. Though vulnerability is difficult, it is a promising way to acquire deep healing and understanding - with others and, ultimately, ourselves. 1:57:31 Rose Betts - War ❤ Want to support our indie folk label? Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/indiefolkcentral 2:00:01 Matheo Techer - 8 o'clock This song is about the future, that often appears out of reach, out of control: truth is you can never have total control over something, someone or even yourself and that can feel scary. It will be on an upcoming EP, released in May. With love from The Netherlands!
Absolutely loving Driftwood Choir's releases of 2024, what a great collab! 🎶 Which indie folk artist or singer-songwriter stood out the most for you in 2024?
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Yay to the third volume of our Best Indie Folk of 2024 playlist (Acoustic, Indie, Folk). Part of the Best of 2024 YT playlist: bit.ly/4jbpUxo Out on album: best-indie-folk-of-2024.sbmt.to 🎶 Tracklist & Song Meaning: 0:00 Driftwood Choir - Way Back Home
"There is a universal feeling that time moves on without you and your struggles are your own. Still, you're going to find your way back to something peaceful whenever the turmoil you’re going through comes to an end."
3:19 Ocie Elliott - These Days
These Days is simply a song about missing someone very dear to you who is no longer in your life.
6:16 Hunter Metts - Weathervane
This song is about the positive aspects of an honest love. It's about always making it through whatever life throws at you, and trusting that home doesn't always have to be a physical space, but that home can be a person too.
9:53 SYML - Please Slow Down (Rubber Bridge Version)
I say the words ‘please slow down’ to my kids at least once a day, and even though we try to put walls up to keep them safe, they are wild and will eventually experience life on their own terms. The cliche idea of time passing too fast is a familiar one, especially around parenting kids, and this song is as much for me as it is them.
12:33 Harrison Storm - Temporary Friend
Temporary Friend speaks to the fleeting moments you have while travelling and meeting those people that you share a unique and specific connection with, only to never see them again. Here Harrison is reflecting on the intense and interesting things you learn about someone’s story, the deep conversations into the early hours of the morning, and the vulnerability that can be revealed from those encounters.
15:33 Ben Morgan - Clockwork
This song is about falling into the arms of the universe. It’s an ode to being present and enjoying every moment of the journey rather than focusing on the end goal, as one day the clock will inevitably stop ticking.
19:42 Hazlett - Shiver
I think to some extent whatever path we take life has a funny way of taking us to our destination anyway. But that only happens when we’re led by our gut, we have good intentions and we’re not scared to make the wrong choice. Sometimes it is just about choosing a door to open and being irrationally confident that the universe will guide you to where you need to go either way.
23:07 Salt Tree - Take My Hand
This song is about sharing life with someone through experiences of adventure and exploring new landscapes. It encourages you to be curious and open minded about what you might find with the person you love.
26:22 Jessie Reid - Your Story
This song is about the beauty in telling our stories to complete strangers.
29:53 Rod Coote - Blue Lake
This song is about the ever changing nature of life and how nothing is set in stone through the seasons. It was inspired by a road trip through wilderness of North America and a conversation with a life long friend.
32:51 Riley Pearce & Savannah Conley - Human
Riley says: I wanted a song that somewhat captures the spiritual change I was going through. It was an indescribable shift or presence that suddenly made my life’s purpose feel more visible or tangible to me. I’ve always felt a bit uneasy in music about how self-focused it has to be at times and this new life that we’d brought into the world (by ‘we’ I mean my extraordinary wife Alex) had created such an incredible energy shift that made me feel more connected to what it meant to be a human in this world.
35:40 Amistat - Goodbye
✨ This playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3DOe5gI
& album out everywhere: best-indie-folk-of-2024.sbmt.to
38:23 David Lazarus - Leading Different Lives
This song is about the bittersweet process of letting someone go. It's about believing you found your person, but on reflection - realising it was the idea of them you were romanticising. In reality, you were both on very different paths in life.
41:16 Chris Lanzon - Lilo
This song is about always being there for the people you care about. Even if they’re distant. Even if there’s so much about them that you don’t know, or don’t understand. Even if it hurts, you’ll show up when they need you, no matter what.
42:54 Chan Fuze - Palm
This song is about a giving your heart away to someone who won’t see you. There’s a profound sense of loneliness when your love isn’t acknowledged so in turn it burns you. This is the price we pay for love.
48:19 Old Sea Brigade - Polygraph
This is a song all about the fear of the unknown and how that can manifest into anxiety. It's about when you take a big step into a new phase in your life when those big changes actually happen, and you suddenly freak out and wonder… ‘was this the right step?’ but you feel bad for even thinking that. ‘Polygraph’ is about riding that out, letting it pass, and is meant to be an antidote to all that, to remind you... you don't have to slow-dance with the next thought you have.
52:36 Mot Furu - lakebed
This song is about two friends or partners who are resting at the bottom of a lake. This can symbolize hitting one's rock bottom, or in this case 'lakebed', in life. However, the beauty and consolation come from not having to be alone in that state.
56:14 mid70s - Tire Swing
This song is about a magical dream relationship.
58:55 Southey - I Know The Way
I wanted to capture the feeling of finding direction in uncertain times. This song is about offering a hand to those who might need it.
1:03:29 Ella Stallion - Permanent Stay
This song is about leaving it all to find a ‘Permanent Stay’ in the wild. I know I'll be sleeping on my own, out where the fox and rabbit roam.
1:07:07 Jakob Longfield - Daydreams (with M)
This song is about having big dreams while feeling anxious and worried about what might happen to them.
1:10:33 Jordan Hart - Soft Eyes
This song is for the people who hold us even when we feel like we don’t deserve it. When it’s difficult to feel normal let alone present, these people remind us that we’re not alone. To know love like that is surely one of the greatest gifts in life.
1:13:14 Caleb Hearn - Get There When I Get There
I think a lot of people feel pressured to follow social norms or reach certain milestones by a particular age. But for me it’s much more important to live in the moment and enjoy the process of getting where I want to go. Because if you’re not feeling that joy, then I’m not sure it’s worth it.
1:16:09 Hunter Metts - Don't Fail Me Now
This song about a significant other falling short of the expectations - emphasizing the feeling of having to sit with the pain of the relationship rather than feeling nothing at all.
1:18:51 Cody Francis & Ben Reneer - If You Want To
This song is about the potential of a relationship to blossom and bloom into something beautiful while still affording the other person the option to turn it down. But that, If they want to, the perspective of the person singing is 100% in to try.
1:22:14 Alexander Grandjean - Babylon
This song is about love and decay: It talks about human destruction of the planet. About closing our eyes and wishing ourselves back where we belong, where gardens hang like Babylon.
1:25:52 Luna Keller - Lighter Than Before
This song is about the joy of feeling like yourself again after overcoming a tough time. The sun feels warmer after a long winter - I wrote it while recovering from depression, it was nice to write a happy song again.
1:29:39 Doris Club - Born Good
Find out all about Indie Folk Central here: ifc.sbmt.to
🔔 Subscribe for more music just like this
www.youtube.com/@indiefolkcentralMusic?sub_confirmation=1
1:32:09 Cole Scheifele & Raquel Norland - Back to Me
This song is about the process of losing someone and the difficult journey of coming to a place of acceptance, but part of you through it all always hopes they will find their way back to you.
1:36:00 June Amiss - None At All
This song is about trying to be everything and ending up becoming nothing at all.
1:38:42 Lapwing - Naseby Park
This song captures a beautiful moment of connection between a father and son, and the sudden, haunting awareness of the passing of time.
1:41:49 Tobias Arbo - Recover
This song is about opening up again after having been closed off for a long time. It's narrated from an 'angel on the shoulder perspective', trying to break oneself free from the invisible self-criticism we so easily amp up over time.
1:44:21 Mark Wilkinson & William Fitzsimmons - Movie Scene - Acoustic
Movie scene is written about a relationship between two friends where one person secretly hopes the friendship will develop into something more romantic but lacks the confidence to air those feelings. Instead of confessing his true feelings, the friend resigns himself to playing out fictional scenarios (Movie Scenes) in his head to avoid the risk of rejection.
1:47:36 Virens - apocalypse
This song is about the beginnings of a love story amid the chaos of an apocalypse, finding joy in our ordinary lives, despite the looming threat of oblivion.
1:50:26 Wild Rivers - Simp Song
1:53:27 Connor Stephen - Mr Know It All
This song is about overcoming relational torment and insecurities through admittance and forgiveness. Though vulnerability is difficult, it is a promising way to acquire deep healing and understanding - with others and, ultimately, ourselves.
1:57:31 Rose Betts - War
❤ Want to support our indie folk label?
Join us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/indiefolkcentral
2:00:01 Matheo Techer - 8 o'clock
This song is about the future, that often appears out of reach, out of control: truth is you can never have total control over something, someone or even yourself and that can feel scary. It will be on an upcoming EP, released in May.
With love from The Netherlands!
All of us let’s share peace and love
Oooo goody best of 2024
We'll find our way back home.
Yess! Thank you 🙏
It feels like it’s a next episode of a everyone’s favourite tv show
Beautiful.
Absolutely loving Driftwood Choir's releases of 2024, what a great collab! 🎶 Which indie folk artist or singer-songwriter stood out the most for you in 2024?
Awesome vibes @Rufus🎉
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Enjoy the full collection:
Vol 1: ruclips.net/video/Rf0J_zWwPwM/видео.html
Vol 2: ruclips.net/video/w2IlepMRZGI/видео.html
Vol 4: Out soon!
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Enjoy Jelle!