Even If It Breaks Your Heart /  by E

       I'm still trying to get myself back together after the news I received Sunday morning which means that I have sunk down into listening to a lot of Eli Young Band's music (with some Mika, Camera Can't Lie, and Green River Ordinance thrown in for good measure). I'm working on getting back for you guys and you're awesome for being cool with 'New Music Monday' having been pushed to Tuesday this week so I'll work through it tonight and come back with a lot of good music and the return of interviews on the site and all of that other fun stuff that I've been pushing aside for the past two weeks. For now though (and even though I'm sure I've definitely made you listen to it before), this song is still pretty great.
"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" Eli Young Band
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Ways /  by E

       Ruby the RabbitFoot released the video for "Ways" off her forthcoming album, New As Dew (due for release March 18), yesterday and the song is gorgeous. The vocals are sweetly hypnotic and the swirling melody puts amazing lyrics like "I know you're probably thinking of ways, ways to be good to me, but let me help you spare your precious energy" and "I know that day I ran away, you ran away too, 'cause I came home, the coffee was cold and the cups were stained, the walls were thick with pain" in the spotlight.
"Ways" Ruby the RabbitFoot
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Planets /  by E

I am hopelessly addicted to this single from Central Coast duo, Little Earthquake. Brothers, Mathew and Justin Hyland, formed the idea for the band and began working on tracks while touring the US as guest members of Lydia and, after returning to Australia in 2013, teamed with Lachlan Mitchell to put together their forthcoming EP, Universal Mind, due for release April 2014.

The track blends together indie-pop, rock, and electronic sounds with just enough of an acoustic influence to give the track a down to Earth feel when the beat starts to carry you away. Lyrics that state "there's planets in my head, a universe that I just don't understand, so take a look around and wonder how it comes to life", "this world can't get much worse, we're all in rhythm with the same one verse", and "you'll end up with what you think you deserve" are kept light by a swaying melody and a fun vocal hook that will leave you wanting to sing along to the rest of the song. The song's melody is refreshing, "never thought I'd finally know how to be what I dream" is awesome and only gets better as it fades out and disintegrates to the song's end (which is as sudden as its beginning), and that rhythm is so fantastic that you'll be glad to have it stuck in your head for days on end.

"Planets" Little Earthquake

Breaking Bones /  by E

       Esco William's "Breaking Bones" is gorgeous. The piano melody is so wonderfully heartfelt that it fills the track with ease while those vocals are so soft and rich that it's easy to get lost in the song; any other accompaniment to the track would not have done justice to those vocals or that beautiful piano and the simplicity of the easy combination makes it hypnotically fantastic. With such an amazing sound, I did not even begin to listen to the lyrics until my third or fourth time around, but if the music is perfect, the lyrics are on a new level all on their own.
       A chorus which states "don't see the point in fighting anymore, we're always trying to be something, well we are who we are, don't see the point in trying anymore, we're always fighting for something, we're falling apart" is perfection and, because this song is too great to capture in words, you really should just listen to it on repeat. 
"Breaking Bones" Esco Williams
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