Music
Swimming Pool turns midweek into magic with “Wednesday Kinda Weekend”
In their latest offering, “Wednesday Kinda Weekend,” Swimming Pool captures the delicate push between wanting to drift away and needing to stay present. Warped ambient textures ripple through the mix like heat shimmer off asphalt, setting the scene for a journey that refuses to be hurried. A bowed bass hums underneath, anchoring the haze with a deep, resonant pulse, while layered vocals float above, sometimes sharp enough to pierce through, other times dissolving into the ether. It’s the musical equivalent of lying in the grass with your eyes half-closed, unsure if you’re slipping into a dream or simply too comfortable to move.
What makes “Wednesday Kinda Weekend” so captivating is its balance between contrasts. It inhabits the liminal space between joy and exhaustion, moments of clarity dissolve into waves of abstraction, intimate whispers fade into vast reverb, and the bright shimmer of sound is constantly refracted through a lens of gentle distortion. This duality gives the song a kind of emotional dizziness. The pacing is deliberate, each element introduced like a brushstroke in an evolving painting. The bowed bass swells feel like slow tides, while the ambient layers bend and stretch time, making three minutes feel like an endless dusk. Vocals appear as storytelling devices and as textures themselves, becoming another instrument in the dream world.
“Wednesday Kinda Weekend” feels like a love letter to the lingering light of a Wednesday evening that somehow feels as carefree as a Saturday night, the quiet thrill of knowing you don’t have to be anywhere just yet, the surrender to a slower rhythm in a world that never stops moving. Swimming Pool has crafted something that settles into your breathing, reshaping your sense of time. With “Wednesday Kinda Weekend”, they’ve given us an immersive escape you’ll want to return to long after summer has slipped away.
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Lana Crow turns challenges into a celebration with “Laugh With You”
“Laugh With You,” the latest single from Lana Crow, is a sincere rallying cry to embrace life in all its messy, beautiful mess. In the song, indie pop and alt-pop combine to deliver an emotional blow that feels both personal and universal.
“Laugh With You” feels like an instant connection, and Crow is telling you stories of hard times with a cozy, knowing smile. This song is as much about struggle as it is about how strong you are. It serves as a reminder that these struggles are simply what give us the strength to keep going, even when life is tough.
Crow encourages people to welcome them, create happiness in the cracks, and laugh even as the world gets heavy. The result is a song that delicately nudges you to love and embrace yourself. It is an anthem for anyone experiencing tough times who refuses to give up hope. Lana Crow continues to demonstrate her songwriting skills, both musically pleasing and emotionally rich, with “Laugh With You.”
It’s a reminder that it’s how we respond to tough times, rather than how they affect us, that’s key. With this song, not only does Crow provide us with music, but she also lets us know that sometimes a laugh is what we need to remember that there is always something to smile about and that, even when it feels like life has waged war against you, laughter can still be found.
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Lisa Boostani creates a mesmerizing tidal realm in “Ocean”
Lisa Boostani’s “Ocean” takes you deep into a sensory world where body, spirit, and myth come together, beyond the surface of genre. Boostani makes a soundscape that is both ethereal and deeply human by combining the broad essence of psychedelic pop with the strong appeal of alternative rock.
Her voice rises as if it is coming from deep within her, shaped by emotion rather than action. She intentionally channels the intangible, turning weakness into strength rather than a source of pain, and “Ocean” tells people to get involved in this inner world, not just watch it. This release is an integral part of her first EP, “One,” which will come out in March 2026 and is based on love, sensuality, and unity.
If “Ocean” is any indication, the EP will show sensuality not as something pretty, but as a kind of spiritual intelligence, a way to know yourself by connecting with others. The song’s textures and structure have an aquatic quality, moving between clarity and delirium, rhythm and freedom. Its emotional focus is on immersion instead of resolution.
The striking quality of “Ocean” is the blend of the mystical worlds. Boostani understands that strength often shows up as gentleness and that deep feelings are better expressed through frequencies than words. She wants people to see consciousness as immediacy, sensation as truth, and openness as an undeniable strength.
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